Accountability has fascinated me for a decade or more. I teach about it over and over. I am a student of it as well. Because of this, I am a stickler at times for how the word is used. I rarely if ever ask to hold someone accountable; the concept of doing so is foreign…
“Get ready!” It feels like I hear these words all the time in one form or another. We are approaching the terminal. Look in the area around your seat. The flight attendants are making their final pass through the cabin before landing. Be sure your seatbelt is securely fastened before take off. Anna will need…
A year ago I wrote about an experience that I had three decades earlier. It is an experience I visit again and again when I ponder what to do longer than I feel that I should. I am at a workshop and there is a major upset going on between two participants. They are standing…
When we get real with ourselves and tell the truth about what is going on, we are left with a dilemma from which many cower. We have to stare down our perceived powerlessness. So common is our “but who am I to do that?” that the question frequently does not even get vocalized. Our failures…
As I have been writing about truth-telling for the past week or so, I have included each day some comments about individuals and groups which represent themselves as somehow being victimized. Evangelicals feel victimized by Starbucks, insurers by the Affordable Care Act, gun manufacturers by background checks for purchases — each crying “foul” when they…
I have postponed this particular post for a couple of weeks to get some distance from the fever pitch of debates about it in December. But how can anyone really write about truth-telling without commenting on Christmas? Seriously, can we let go of The Elf? We all know the one to which I refer. Santa.…
We can generally tell when this congress is in session because they are “debating” the Affordable Care Act, that change in the US health care coverage arrangements that is viewed by the far right as an effort to impregnate their mothers and get compulsory anal probes by alien forces from Remulon. We have seen threats,…
I know what it is to build a company. I have done it a couple of times. In the early 1980’s, I had a small start-up fine and decorative arts auction house with four full-time and a half-dozen part-time employees. We brokered some direct sales for clients who no longer wanted a painting or other…
Move around the floor in a Loco-motion (Come on baby, do the Loco-motion) Do it holding hands if you get the notion (Come on baby, do the Loco-motion) There’s never been a dance that’s so easy to do It even makes you happy when you’re feeling blue So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion…
At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan delivered an inflammatory speech now known as “the culture war speech.” He said, “My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe. It is about what we stand for as Americans. There…
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