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A lecture on “Solitude and Leadership: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts,” was delivered by William Deresiewicz to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009.

We are going through a news cycle now when it can be too easy to argue that too often safety is the last thing people are thinking about.

Robert G. Eccles, a professor of management practice at the Harvard Business School, didn’t mince words when he spoke at a sustainability and safety symposium

Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at the bottom right-hand corner of the section “Business Day” in The New York Times, is a boxed photograph of General Motors’ chief executive Mary T. Barra.

There’s no such animal as the stereotypical safety and health pro. I’ll run through my own “who’s who” list of industry-based safety and health pros who have made an impression on me.

Safety and health processes in the workplace are often facilitated by EHS professionals and driven by volunteers.

Americans log more hours on the job than anyone in the industrialized world.

My limit has been reached. I’m talking about leadership hero worship.

Just finished reading a fascinating book, “The Men Who Lost America” (Yale University Press, 2013), by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, a history professor at the University of Virginia.

Whoa, you’re treading on thin, very politically incorrect ground here when one uses the word “hate.”