“So where are you on the Richter scale, babe? How are you on a scale of 1 to 10?” Jessica asked me this the other day, and it wasn’t nearly as easy to answer as it might initially sound. I had to answer it on multiple levels. I had to…

Leaders must be dealers in hope. That is what Napoleon said (not Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor who nearly conquered the world). Napoleon rightly understood that hope is one of the most potent forces on the planet. Without it, communities collapse. With it, chains are cast aside and…