Despite Amazon's official release date of February 16, a reader who pre-ordered received the first delivered Leadership Step by Step! She sent the picture:

Check out my interview in Joe Byerly's blog, From the Green Notebook, today, "Do Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence?" It's a fascinating blog with many perspectives on leadership, mainly from a military perspective. As you know from my posts, I consider active, experiential learning essential to face and overcome the social and emotional challenges inherent to leading others, and military training essentially involves active, experiential parts classrooms and readings don't. The interview begins, Joe: I’ve heard the term “emotional intelligence” mentioned in a lot of leadership conversations over the last couple of years, but what exactly does it mean?  Josh: Let…

A few weeks ago, while working on a video shoot waiting for the people to be recorded to arrive, a friend mentioned how he expected the women to be more likely to wear makeup. A woman on the shoot called him misogynist. I asked what was misogynist about what he said. She said the expectation that women had to wear makeup. I pointed out that he didn't say anything about obligation. She repeatedly called him misogynist, showing no willingness to consider other perspectives or even listen, as far as I could tell. Fast forward to now. I'm catching up on…