Exploring How Change Affects People
It is terribly, brutally cold outside. Not as cold as it is in the Midwest, but colder than it has been in this – relatively – milder winter (and my employees from Michigan and Wisconsin always complained that it was colder in New York because of the wind-chill). This morning, my phone said 3° when …
On certain Saturdays during the school year, I read to second graders in a school under the Manhattan Bridge. I love to walk down, get the blood pumping, breathe deeply of the cool air. As I get closer, the day is just waking up, huge delivery trucks dropping off boxes of groceries, tiny forklifts carrying …
There have been a lot of articles recently about a growing epidemic, a disease that can’t be cured with a pill or an operation, loneliness. Evidence points to social media as a prominent cause. It was bad enough, ten years ago, to be flooded with images that you couldn’t hope to measure up to: impossibly …
In one of my favorite zen katas, the seeker of guidance journeys by boat, camel, and foot to Tibet, hikes deep into the mountains, and scales a sheer cliff to get an answer from the wise man. After he asks his question, he asks a second: “Master, why do you make it so hard to …
I confess, I’ve been at it again, over-planning for a meeting, preparing endlessly long PowerPoint decks. But I had a great day yesterday that (I hope) cured me of this tendency. This week was training week for one of my clients. And the decks I had put together were designed to walk the participants through …
