How do we measure grit and perseverance – let alone cultivate it? The concept is well-worn, and many a leadership treatise claims to contain the recipe. But to find it, and keep it, is no easy task. The concept is so important that almost every culture has words to shorthand the complex emotional cocktail of getting up after being knocked down: The Finnish call it “Sisu”, often translated as "stick-to-itivness" – and demonstrated by the Finns in the Winter War of 1939 against the mighty...

A cool rain falls. Mercifully at first—everyone remembers the scorching, swampy summer of just a few days ago. But as it continues, we...

Once a year, Gettysburg’s Schroeder Farm Reenactment Field hosts a different type of event: the Gettysburg Vintage Base Ball Festival. 32...