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Nexus of Familiar to Unfamiliar
"If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path." Joseph Campbell* Our life journeys are not linear. They wend along the road responding to personal, professional, and environmental dynamics. Our singular stories, epic to only ourselves, weren’t documented in ancient tablets or Gutenberg’s press. Yet, we created and lived tales of adaptation an
Dec 21, 20256 min read


The Day of the Dead; Remembrance of Acquaintance
Dia de los Muertos. The Day of the Dead. We arrive there after Halloween blows out its candle at midnight, after we shuddered in fear and...
Oct 30, 20204 min read


Problem-Solving: The Sleuth, the Scribe, and the Dog
“I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger—ever present danger, which is the more terrible because...
Apr 5, 20196 min read


Enterprise Changers -- from Weakness to Strength
"An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.” Leonardo Da Vinci I would never characterize...
Mar 26, 20196 min read


Talent Management; Innovation Management
“Why do you want to join the force?” “To protect the property and citizenry of –" “Ah, don't waste my time with that bull----”...
Feb 5, 20195 min read


We're Number One!
My New Year’s resolution was to recover from televised, American football addiction. So tonight’s college championship is just the last...
Jan 7, 20194 min read


Classes of Impossible
For those who celebrate Chanukah, the miracle of the lights is a reflection, of tradition, survival and hope. It is a remembrance of Maccabean Jews and a civil war, a rededication of the temple, and an astounding observation of candlelight. The time is a reflection of history -- teaching and embracing, holding together a faith and way of life. I like to imagine the Jewish elders of two millennia ago, keepers of the temple, seeing the scant amount of pure oil, then making t
Dec 2, 20185 min read


What's in a Name
The Director of Client Relations had a name -- Nick. He spoke often of his "company’s greatest asset" – the people. Notwithstanding...
May 27, 20185 min read


"Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste”
“Are the Nazis chasing you?” my mother would ask me, sensing my anxiety and nerves before a recital, or a homework deadline, or track...
May 6, 20185 min read


Slaying Demons or Selling Value?
“I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but...
Mar 18, 20185 min read