An all knowing, all seeing, all good God, sent His only begotten Son to the Earth to save sinners. Just writing this line, at this time of year, at the end of such a year as 2016, is considered naïve and near-sighted by many people. However, as a statement of Read more…
It’s hard to know what the best advice is. After all, it’s been a long 2016, and its shaping up to be an even longer 2017. Here is a list of some ideas to keep you going in the year to come. Or too look back on and wonder what Read more…
When thinking about conflict, the lock-in effect controls our reactions and responses. We become accustomed to the reactions and responses that we have integrated into our lives on a regular basis. And the people to whom we are responding become locked-in to their responses and reactions to us as well. Read more…
MBA’s have a responsibility to save the world. But they can only do that if the door is opened to them to believe that they can save the world. For that door to open, someone must show them the way. And then, when the way is shown, the door opens Read more…
The uncomfortable truth is that an understanding and appreciation of the impact of human emotions is required to address the conflicts of the present day. The comfortable fairy tale is that everywhere human beings are freed from the impact of their emotions by more economic choices, more scientific knowledge, and Read more…
The world inside rules the world outside. One of the terrible functions of the last half-century has been the rise in the perception of people, both at the individual level and at the group level, as purely economic actors. When viewed this way, people’s reactions and behaviors (and even group Read more…
Avoiding what we are allergic to is good sense when we are talking about preserving the long-term health of our physical bodies. Avoiding what we are allergic to is not good sense when we are talking about preserving the long-term health of habits we have acquired that no longer are Read more…
Changing people’s behavior can only happen when you embark on having a relationship first. We know this instinctively, yet we pursue the “command and control” model of authoritarian, top-down, imposed change repeatedly. Maybe it’s because the narrative that we tell ourselves about other people—and the way that they change—is so Read more…
Pursuing the chimera of “Big Data,” means little in the face of human irrationality and unpredictability when the impact of emotions is removed from the analysis. Emotions are everywhere, and all around us, driving our reactions to events, our desires to record and document those events, and our drives to Read more…
The leap from here to there has never been closer. Sure, leaping is naturally hard. That’s why people caution other people, before they embark on a path they can’t see, into a future they can’t understand, with outcomes that are unimaginable, to “look before you leap.” It’s been written before that, Read more…