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Summer Leadership Book Club Launch

This summer the Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership launched a "Leadership Book Club," a program aimed at encouraging lifetime habits of reading texts on military...

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Dr. Ed Barrett guest on Military.com podcast

  Dr. Edward T. Barrett is the Dean of Research and Director of the Office of Research and Scholarship at the US Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical...

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Fall 2020 Stockdale Center Newsletter

In this issue: Midshipmen authors of outstanding ethics essays and the Admiral Charles Larson Ethical Leadership Award for outstanding faculty and staff winner are honored. Mr. Brad Snyder...

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Leadership Talk with USNA and Penn State Soccer

   The Stockdale Center's own Lieutenant General John Wissler and Major Ryan Curry, spoke to the USNA Mens Soccer team as part of their preseason preparations for the upcoming...

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Stockdale Blog

Stoicism at the Stockdale Center and Naval Academy

8-24-2020 by Marcus Hedahl

While there are many ways to analyze ADM Stockdale’s life and his leadership, in his writings about both of those, we see deep reflections of Stoicism, the philosophy Stockdale credited as essential for his leadership—and even his survival.READ MORE

Ethics across the Curriculum

7-23-2020 by Jeff Macris

The Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership is proud to have just completed a week-long inaugural “Ethics Across the Curriculum” faculty workshop. The opening words of U.S. Naval...READ MORE

Does the World Really Need Another Leadership and Ethics Blog?

6-19-2020 by Joe Thomas

Maybe, maybe not.  What is clear is the world needs well-considered ideas to help solve “knotty problems.”  I define a knotty problem as particularly difficult to solve, typically...READ MORE

Stockdale Podcasts

Listen to inspiring, interactive, informative, and proactive Podcasts. Various discussions of leadership, ethics, and law.