One of my favorite stories is about a battle-surgeon who comes to doubt his work. He’s deep in the fighting on the edge of a war that seems like it will never end. They bring men to him, he patches them up; as soon as they’re well enough, they return to battle, only to come …
When I think about Talent, I think about the NY Urban Debate League, a local non-profit that helps teachers in under-served high schools create debate teams, teach their students to debate, sponsors debate tournaments, and sponsors attendance at mainstream debate tournaments. During the time that I volunteered with them, I saw kids, for whom school …
A few weeks ago, I spent a week visiting family in Walla Walla, Washington. It was a relaxing week, during which I took one business call and returned two business emails and a text – and then my mom’s wi-fi mysteriously died at the same time that my husband told me that we had used …
A few years ago I developed a simple model that proved an effective lens for designing new programs, practices, or systems. I refer to it as Learn>Innovate>Influence>Execute> and it goes like this: At the top of the circle is Learn. What you learn is determined by the nature of the project. You may analyze data to …
We had an exciting time on the old homestead this weekend: it started out quietly with a yoga class and a bottomless brunch celebrating a friend’s birthday, then my sister texted that mom was at the emergency room getting checked out for an arrhythmia, probably due to her self-un-medicating on her blood pressure medicine. [Both …
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