From college volleyball, I’ve learned that you play, you are promoted, you are given a position because of your running tally of two events: opportunities taken and opportunities missed. When you take advantage of those opportunities, your reliability is noted and often rewarded. When you miss them, you fail the test.

Natural disasters can bring out the best and worst in us. Given how little some have, I am fully grateful for all that I had during the onslaught of Hurricane Irene this past weekend. On 12th Street and Avenue D in Manhatttan, a stone’s throw from the East River, my mother-in-law, Josefa, lives on the [...]

When the courageous conversation is occuring, others in the room lean forward, are encouraged (heartened, as the word implies) and more likely to follow that brave soul to the edge that has been approached. How often do we encounter courageous conversation in our work life?

For those of us trying to help some positive things happen in the world, it can get pretty depressing to confront the worst unemployment in decades, a political system that often seems non-functional, and the ever present danger of our environment imploding. We need to stay positive and keep working for the common good. So, just like my diet, I try to consume a healthy variety of media-inspiration, information, entertainment, insight, and humor. As much of it as I can get! This includes books, music, theatre and movies-of all kinds, old school and new.