Martin Luther King Jr.
On Thomas Merton Mary Gordon Schambhala Publications (January 2019) He was a Trappist monk, committed to silence, “and yet his vocation was based on words.” Mary Gordon’s comment refers to only one of several contradictions and paradoxes that help to…
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With regard to the film based on Hidden Figures, these points provided by IMBDatabase are of special interest to me: o While John Glenn did specifically request that Katherine Johnson review all of the numbers for the Friendship 7 mission…
Read MoreThe Agenda Mover: When Good Ideas Are Not Enough Samuel B. Bacharach Cornell University Press (August 2016) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of the fact that, for…
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Adam M. Grant Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (2016) How and why originality starts with creative thinking, is driven by a vision, and can eventually have global impact Adam Grant wants to “debunk…
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Above: Scout (Mary Badham) and Atticus (Gregory Peck) in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Peggy Noonan Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Peggy Noonan for The Wall Street Journal. I agree with her that, with the recent…
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Leadership consists of three separate but interdependent components: character, personality, and skill. Recent scientific research (especially in neurology) suggests the following: o Qualities of character can be altered (for better or worse) only by traumatic experience. o Attributes of personality…
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Although specific percentages vary, all of the most recent research studies indicate that, on average, less than 30% of employees in an organization are actively, productively engaged; the others are either passively engaged (“mailing it in”) or actively engaged in…
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The buffet awaits: o “The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.” Sholom Aleichem o “The only reply to distrust is candor.” Martin Buber o “Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.” James…
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* * * Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Nancy F. Koehn for the Washington Post. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…
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The wisdom of Henry David Thoreau
My family and I lived for several years in Sudbury (MA) and my office was in Concord nearby. Our three sons learned to swim in Walden Pond until classes were no longer conducted at this historical site. Henry David Thoreau…
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