Have you ever worked for an organization where it was proudly said, “we don’t do it that way … it’s not in our culture”? Well, I have much to my dismay. And I’ve worked with companies like this as an external consultant. When I hear this, it instantly makes me wonder how receptive they are […]

There’s a great memoir by the historian, Howard Zinn, entitled “You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train”. The book is about the civil rights movement and the social upheavals of the 1960′s and Zinn’s active support of the movement. Zinn, if you don’t know him, was an historian, social critic and activist. He argued […]

I’ve been extremely interested in some of the new(er) findings coming from neuroscience and their potential for change in our field. As we start to earn more about how the brain operates, we can start to ensure that what we do professionally builds on this new knowledge. We can’t continue to move forward ourselves if […]