by Michael Leppert | Oct 23, 2020 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I was tapping my toes on Thursday afternoon near the corner of Alabama and Washington Streets, right on the edge of the new Richard G. Lugar Plaza outside of the City-County Building in Indianapolis. My wife was supposed to meet me there to vote. She was late, and the...
by Michael Leppert | Sep 25, 2020 | Politics/Government
“Prebuttal” is a word I first learned from former Speaker of the House John Boehner. He loved to issue his objections to Barack Obama’s speeches before the former president even game them. And that is a top-notch way to object. I passed Boehner...
by Michael Leppert | Aug 14, 2020 | Politics/Government
It has been a big week in the presidential election. Presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden announced his running mate on Tuesday. And though his pick of Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) should not have surprised anyone, it still managed to catch a few people off...
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...
by Michael Leppert | Nov 15, 2019 | Politics/Government
Much of America learned the term “quid pro quo” from Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling in the 1991 classic movie “Silence of the Lambs.” The psycho serial killer, Lecter, was willing to trade information about another killer with FBI Agent...
