Fides Quaerens Intellectum

The spirit of an organization is created from the top.  The proof of the sincerity and seriousness of a management is uncompromising emphasis on integrity of character.  This, above all, has to be symbolized is management’s “people” decisions.  For it is character through which leadership is exercised; it is character that sets the example and [...]

My employer has graciously allowed me to use this month exclusively for dissertation writing, a gift for which I am truly grateful.  The title is “Citizen-Formation, the Common Good, and American Higher Education during the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, 1880-1930,” and in it I explore the ways in which the contours of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the [...]

This morning a colleague and I took two IMPACT 360 students (www.impact360.net) to the corporate headquarters of Chick-fil-A, Inc. (http://www.chickfila.com/home.asp) in Atlanta in order to put some final touches on a leadership curriculum that the Chick-fil-A (CFA) leadership experts will be implementing for our students this spring.  The IMPACT 360 students will have the rare opportunity of [...]