I’ve never been in the military. My Dad was. He was Air Force. He fought in World War II . . . in Italy. He took his discharge after the war, spent two years in civilian life, and went back into the military with my mom, the first Italian war bride. He spent the next 20 [...]

So my 6th grader and I were taking a bath together a few nights ago and he asked me to help him on a project. “Dad, if you had to boil down to two reasons why Rome fell when they were at the height of power, what would you say?” I was freshly off of reading the news [...]

I happened to do this research several years ago connected to some graduate studies I was doing in adult education and entrepreneurship. The studies were broad based and I thought I’d share it with you here. Enjoy. Foundations In establishing a foundation for the process of understanding and managing organizations, it is instructive to begin [...]

The concept of organization is certainly not a new one as one looks back over centuries of history. Aristotle, for example, referred to the importance of organization in his discussion of household management in his book, The Politics of Aristotle. In discussing the managerial hierarchy, he noted that there is only one situation in which [...]