Ronald Reagan: A Different Time, A Different President
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Last week, in preparation for our upcoming Fall Leadership Summit (September 11-13), I began reading Ronald Reagan: His Life and Legend, [...]
An A+ Program!
by Thom Little, Ph.D. A few weeks ago, SLLF sponsored our 21st annual Emerging Legislative Leaders Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of [...]
Melissa Hortman Showed Us How to Lead
By Kate Levin, Director of Strategic Outreach, SLLF Saturday’s news about the shooting of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman hit me like a punch in the [...]
The Many Roles of Majority Leaders
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Next month (July 24-26), SLLF will host the 12th annual Conference of State Majority Leaders in Madison, Wisconsin. Having worked with [...]
Leadership Lessons from Gettysburg, Part I
By: Thom Little, Ph.D. In late April, SLLF held its Spring Leadership Summit in Gettysburg, PA, focusing on lessons from the battlefield and the Gettysburg [...]
What Future State Legislative Leaders are Thinking
By: Thom Little, Ph.D. As many of you know, each summer for more than two decades, the State Legislative Leaders Foundation has sponsored The Emerging [...]
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions
By Thom Little, Ph.D. In preparing for our upcoming program at Gettysburg, I have been looking at the works of our presenters, and among many [...]
Compromise as it Should Be: Everybody Got Something in the Minnesota House Power Sharing Agreement
By Thom Little, Ph.D. Following the election of November 5, 2024, after Democrats lost three seats, it appeared that the Minnesota House was going to [...]
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Examples of True Public Servants
By: Thom Little, Ph.D. In October, we posted this blog about the incredible public service of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter as we prepared for a [...]
