WHO ARE YOU? Each of us has a name by which we have become known, a name given to us by our parents, a name sometimes chosen at random, or from a list of popular names, sometimes by family traditions, and sometimes with special meaning. In some cultures a name has particular significance with regard
As leaders, we are acutely aware of trying to meet the needs of multiple constituencies – directors, associates, colleagues, employees, customers, and others in the larger community. We have to learn how to receive, with a measure of appropriate grace and humility, invitations, requests, suggestions, recommendations, ideas, information, bad news, and demands. The challenge is
I struggled all last week with a bronchial issue that caused extreme physical stress. That was quickly put into perspective with the Orlando massacre last Sunday night followed by the tragedy with the boy from Nebraska and the alligator. A bad cold that evolves into pneumonia is not a tragedy. While it results in a
The “Education Equation” has it wrong and change comes slowly. A study conducted by the U. S. Department of Education in collaboration with Germany. perhaps Japan as well, concluded that we have it all wrong. If you look at the education equation, we tend to hold time constant and make education the variable. If we
As a long-time teacher and school administrator, my three R’s were respect, responsibility and restraint. Most people understand, even accept, the first two easily but often stumble over the third. We used those criteria to evaluate the behavior of students and adults, and most often included teachers and parents in the conversations about our values,
It seems that a large number of people in a generation is in serious conversations about moving to smaller living spaces, jettisoning a number of possessions and moving toward simplifying and uncluttering their lives. At least once or twice a week I find myself answering questions about how and why we decided to do
