Here is a line from George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Back to Methuselah” ‘There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?’ This was used by Robert Kennedy during his brief Presidential campaign and shortly afterwards in a eulogy for
Think about 3.6 million high school graduates this Spring who have spent 13 or more years in school. They have been tied to a curriculum that has good intentions for expanding the student’s world of knowledge, understanding and skills requisite for a good education. How then do you answer the question, “What are the marks
DIMENSIONS OF AGING – CHANGE IS CERTAIN – EITHER PLANNED OR UNPLANNED There are five dimensions of human activity that are interrelated and interdependent. Those are the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of ourselves and our relationships with others. We tend to treat people along one dimension and focus our energy, time and resources
Transitions from one stage to another can be challenging for a variety of reasons. Each of us differs in how we either plan for those or how we deal with them as they appear, whether on the horizon or suddenly in front of us. Two colleagues mentioned recently that they were in a transition mode
Whitney Johnson has a new book out called “Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve.” She starts out her current newsletter to promote her book with a story about WD 40, the recognizable brand of lubricant in the yellow and blue can. I thought it had been around
About six years ago I wrote the following article based on a letter to a friend of mine who was about to give a commencement speech. For those us who have done that on more than a few occasions, we know that it’s hard to come up with something that’s worth listening to at a
