NMOHLEC Board Member Barnum Reflects on Leadership Lessons Amid Ship Christening

Barney Barnum is fond of inspirational sayings. There’s “Charge On,” for one, and “If you’re going to be a bear, be a grizzly bear” for another. But behind those sayings is a serious philosophy of leadership that stretches from the battlefields of Vietnam as a Marine to a second career in the Pentagon and now to the future U.S. Navy destroyer that will bear his name.