Martin Monthly Moments
On Professional Growth

• Reflections Upon the Gaza Strip - a Case Study for "Leadership and Ethics" - November 2024
• Managerial Forgiveness - August 2024
• Shy Leaders?? - July 2024
• Ethics and Justice - Should People Serve Prison Time for Honest Mistakes? - June 2024
• Training is a priority, but... - May 2024
• So Many Leadership Books, So Little Time… - April 2024
• Humanities L&D?? – YouTube Rec. - Ryan Chapman - March 2024
• Managers Taking Care of Their People - Wealth Management - February 2024
• DEI and Aristotle - January 2024
• From Survival to Surthival - December 2023
• A Plug for the Liberal Arts - November 2023
• Modern-Day Luddites - Writers' Guild and UAW Have No Chance - October 2023
• "The Courtesy of a Reply" - September 2023
• Cynicism as a Virtue?? - August 2023
• The Place of Anger - July 2023
• "Free Will" and Leadership - May 2023
• If your direct reports' reviews are going to be positive, tell them in advance - January 2023
• Delegate authority with responsibility - December 2022
• "I have made much bigger mistakes than that." - October 2022
• Just Bounce It Off Someone First - September 2022
• To be, or not to be "political" - August 2022
• The second hardest thing I've done professionally - July 2022
• Could You Handle the Worst Thing? - June 2022
• We Gullible Managers - May 2022
• The Paradigm of Absolute Positivity - April 2022
• “Never put anything negative in employee annual reviews” - March 2022
• Is it Okay to Develop Personal Friendships with Your Direct Reports? - February 2022
• If you are an engineer and you have read the engineering code of ethics, raise your hand. - January 2022
• "That's Just Pat" - December 2021
• What is the Most Damning Thing You Can Say About a Leader? - November 2021
• The push for worker diversity has left people with disabilities behind - October 2021
• What’s the Piece You Likely Haven’t Found Yet on Leadership? - September 2021