Bearings
To Those That Are Present: George Washington's Rule No. 1 and Veterans Day
Memorial Day honors the fallen. Veterans Day honors the ones still with us. Washington's Rule No. 1, and four moments from 1782 and 1783, show what respect for living veterans looks like, at home and at work.
The Hatchet Man Always Sends a Bill: What the Election of 1800 Teaches Leaders About Competing on the Record
Today's midterms are the most expensive in history. Attack ads aren't new, though. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson quietly paid a pamphleteer to smear John Adams, and two years later that same writer turned on him. Washington's Rules of Civility explain what went wrong, and why it matters for founders and their companies.
Be No Flatterer: What Hamilton and John Adams Teach About the Numbers You Bring the Board
"Facts are stubborn things." On John Adams's birthday, a lesson from Washington's Rule 17 and the Federalist Papers on why founders need people, and software, that won't flatter them.
