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 [...]
SLLF Gives Back 2024
By Thom Little, Ph.D. In September 2020, during the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, my mother turned 80 years old. A few weeks before, [...]
The Day After (2024 Edition)
By Thom Little, Ph.D. This blog was originally posted following the 2016 elections and then again following the 2020 elections. In light of the division, [...]
Hope for a More Civil Legislature?
Two weeks ago, I attended one of my favorite State Legislative Leaders Foundation programs - the annual meeting of the National Speakers Conference. This program [...]
Partners in Politics and Policy
By Thom Little, Ph.D. One of my favorite parts of my job as the Director of Curriculum Development and Research for the State Legislative Leaders [...]
