At the end of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED today, the final host question to panelist was “what will Jay Leno take over next?”
I am a not a late night TV view of the traditional broadcast channels but what I have learned is this: leno’s prime time TV talk/variety show is a big failure and now GE/NBC [...]
Some have said that being also to live with contradictions and paradoxes is an indication of maturity or intelligence. Well, maybe. However I am still more than disappointed about recent NYC Council actions. As Haberman wrote in the NYC on the 18th of December: The City Council killed plans for a shopping mall inside the [...]
On radio news today I heard of a conflict regarding a development project in one of the NYC boroughs.
Developers want to a convert a property into a mall however the community is demanding that workers in the mall will be guaranteed a living wage. What’s a living wage? According to the report around $10 or [...]
In Thomas Friedman’s NYT op-ed about the Afghanistan work last week, he expresses skepticism about the increase of troops targeted for deployment there. In his discussion he states that authoritative dictates rarely change behavior.
“People do not change when you tell them they should: they change when their context tells them they must.”
This is as true for [...]
The reason I reprinted Peter Bregman’s HBR blog post is because in it, Peter suggests to his client is a technique that we often use in our resilience through hardiness seminars. It is one of the key component of hardiness coping. One needs to engage one’s imagination including hopes and fears when facing current challenges, [...]
the following post is by my friend and colleague John Baldoni. Please let me know what you think.
Great recessions can provide great opportunities especially for those who want to jump start their careers. Many might think this is heresy; after all in tough times, isn’t it better to keep my head down and wait for [...]
The Broadway production of David Manet’s two character drama, Oleanna, achingly addresses human vulnerabilities, and the way institutions attempt to protect us from those vulnerabilities.
The play involves the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who, by accusing him of sexual exploitation, spoils his changes of being accorded tenure. When [...]
My friend and colleague Dr. Anna Marie Valero has recently completed an important a new book which she has been working on for years. It focuses on developing women leaderships; it beautifully lays out the benefits of women leadership, the handicaps and prejudices they must address and what HR leaders and CEOs can do to [...]
Will the gilmore girl will out? Well she did not and the show closed losing all of its investors’ money. TV’s very attractive and charming lead in the hit series, The Gilmore Girls, Lauren Graham played the lamentable Adelaide in this now by gone production. I think that is unfortunate because the show had many [...]
Productive human relations, satisfying human interactions, managing expectations collaboratively. Important, yes?
But not all that much in MBA programs according to Susan Lyne, who was interviewed in the New York Times yesterday in the business section page 2, Openers. When asked specifically what would you like business schools to teach more or less of she responded, [...]