Go to any office in America and you will probably hear about the childish behavior of some co-workers. Managers will express frustration that their direct reports are acting like children. The implication is that acting like a child is a problem because a child...
Managing cross-cultural diversity in teams means finding a common goal. In this article, I discuss my personal experience with dance and what it can teach us about diversity in the workplace. In preparation for my son Adam’s wedding, my wife Rose and I are taking...
Acclaimed author David Foster Wallace’s essay, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, is widely regarded as one of the most famous of its kind. Wallace’s musings on a life well lived opens with a parable...
“We should be careful to get out of an experience the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one...
Turns out, you lie to yourself all the time. Don’t worry, it’s completely natural – an evolutionary fail safe installed in our brains since consciousness evolved. However, these lies are rarely in your best interest. Developing the discipline to identify these lies...
