Columnist Jim Citrin

I have always been a big believer in role models. There is enormous power in learning from those with whom you come into contact, and adapting the lessons to your own personal circumstance and individual style. This belief underscored one of the

It has been a great run. Since February 8, 2006, I've written 66 Leadership by Example columns, totaling some 230 pages and 131,000 words. But the time has come to draw this effort to a close. This, the first half of a two-part final column, will

As 2008 comes to a close, "Slumdog Millionaire," the Oscar-contending film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the novel "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup, is perhaps the perfect antidote to the Bernie Madoff scandal and the economic crisis

If you listened to the mellifluous President-Elect Obama deliver his acceptance speech at Grant Park on November 4th, you wouldn't be alone in thinking that his oratorical gift was naturally endowed. So too with Tiger Woods, who famously has been

He's the man who is getting $700 billion to bail out the nation's financial system.  He personally drove the US government acquisition of insurance giant AIG and stepped in to engineer the nationalization of the formerly private mortgage