As someone who has tinkered with the title and sub-title of his book repeatedly—the “working titles” are still Work Life Reward: The Call & Response of a Good Life At Work—I love it when any other author (or the “book title folks” at the … [Continue reading]
I’d be lying if I told you that the first sounds I hear when I take Wally out in the morning are bird sounds. Instead, it’s the soft roll of tires on one of the streets that crisscross my neighborhood or urban beats booming louder than seems … [Continue reading]
For years now, I’ve been drawn to the mind of Robert D. Kaplan. It's not that I've always agreed with him, but his insights have rarely failed to pull me in. Maybe it's for all the reasons that I wrote last week’s post, A … [Continue reading]
“If those around him had known how to intervene to stop him, it would never have gotten to this point,” someone might have said about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently. I wasn’t expecting to write about bystander interventions today, but was … [Continue reading]
I come from people who loved to search faces. As a kid, my folks would visit a honky-tonk strip in a place called Savin Rock early on a Saturday night and, of course, they’d take me along. They’d park in a good spot on the main drag, open the windows … [Continue reading]
