by Michael Leppert | Jul 31, 2020 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Activism is definitely not what it used to be. Look, I went to college and studied government. After graduation, I worked for the government for more than a decade and have now done government consulting for almost two. So, for thirty years, when I would hear someone...
by Michael Leppert | Jul 3, 2020 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Saturday is the Fourth of July. No one in my circle actually calls it Independence Day, but what’s in a name? Under normal circumstances, it is the day we celebrate our nation’s birth, even though it really isn’t the day we earned our independence...
by Michael Leppert | Jun 12, 2020 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Like so many others, my May trip to New York to see a couple of Broadway shows was cancelled. The theater business won’t worry about my business. They know my wife and I will be back. In fact, they might even sing “You’ll Be Back” to us, except...
by Michael Leppert | May 29, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life
What do you really know about the 1918 pandemic? Recent events have led me to learn a little about it, and based on my conversations, the little I have learned is measurably more than most. It is bizarre how little we know about what happened only a century ago, in...
by Michael Leppert | May 22, 2020 | Pop/Life
“Taps” is a song so old and familiar that we often don’t think of it as being written or composed by someone. It has seemingly always been there, living its role in our lives as if it had life all its own. It is a sad song. Maybe it is better to say...
by Michael Leppert | May 8, 2020 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I just finished a class in my graduate program titled “Leading Collaborations.” The last Zoom discussion of the class covered the leadership mindset of Nelson Mandela, as portrayed in the movie, Invictus. The 2009 film tells the story of Mandela’s transition to power...
