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Leaders and followers are mutually responsible for positive outcomes of their collective activities and accountable for undesirable outcomes

The courageous follower will understand there are still consequences to their words and actions.

When a law enforcement officer exceeds their authority and humanity, silence by fellow officers is collusion.

The past 12 months have vividly demonstrated the crucial role followership plays in our communal life.

Invitation to join investigations into the benefits of active followership for followers.

Why didn’t officers Thao, Keung, and Lanethey act while George Floyd desperately pleaded to breathe and live?

Part of the growth of an individual at work is learning how to do the job when it isn’t as defined as you would like.

Article on Intelligent Disobedience posted by PRAVMIR, the most visited Orthodox Christian website in Russia.

You can’t get students to question and learn intelligent disobedience if you, yourself, are not allowed to question.

I am reflagging this article as it continues to be one of the strongest statements of the appropriate use of Intelligent Disobedience in the military.

Article about the uses of torture, its morality, its questionable effectiveness and its adverse impact on our strategic interests.

Paper presented in collaboration with Ted Thomas to The Arthur D. Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation

In the midst of the uncertain course of this presidency, this article is about a timely improvement in law enforcement.

A call to challenge complacency stir your thinking and prepare to respond principledly to the world around you.

I read with interest in today’s Washington Post about the famous Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, a magnet for great American authors of the 20th century.

Today’s resignation by the Canada’s chief statistician in protest of his agency’s loss of independence is a principled and courageous action.

A cautionary tale regarding conforming to and obeying a culture of intense pressure to meet inflated sales targets.

How do entrepreneurs overcome the vulnerabilities associated with their entrepreneurial status?

Article by Campbell Robertson in The New York Times about the training program developed by the New Orleans Police Department...

To protect the reputation of your agency and its leaders you need to know when and how to disobey.

To protect themselves and their owner, guide dogs are trained to be ‘intelligently disobedient’. Entrepreneurs should learn the same skill.

Courage is much more than simply showing grit toward a noble purpose or being steadfast in the face of hardship.

When bullies get the power of the State behind them they become tyrants and must be stopped early and firmly.

Interview by the Southern Suburbs Tatler during my trip to South Africa.