At the United States Military Academy at West Point, our object is not only to teach cadets to be tactically skilled officers, but also to develop character—the constellation of psychological ...
In a series of articles, I explore each of the 11 character dimensions in the Leader Character Framework, as described in the MIT Sloan article “Make Leader Character Your Competitive Edge.” I am ...
This 2025 retrospective shows that competence without character is fragile and often harmful. Character endures, sustains, ...
Talk of character will not go away. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle focused on it. Medieval philosophers and theologians were concerned about it. In the past 60 years, there has been a revival of ...