When Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was writing the majority opinion striking down the Virginia Military Academy’s ban on admitting women, Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia showed her his scathing dissent which she described it as being “a zinger, filled with distaining footnotes.” She later wrote how much she appreciated his critique of her point of view as it helped her improve her final draft. In the heat of the political madness, the oasis of perspective provided by the stories...

I’ve been talking with a lot of folks who just feel plain crazy! Of course, they describe the disruptions they are experiencing due to Covid-19 or the social unrest related to Black Lives Matter and the upcoming election as the obvious causes of their emotional lability. I often wind up reassuring people that their confusion is justified, “righteous confusion”, I tell them is a fair way to be in the world these days. In last week’s Resilient Wednesday on Overcoming...

I was talking to an executive the other day who was telling me that she was concerned that her staff were taking advantage of working from home and that they were not always available as she would expect them to be. Seems that when she texted or emailed them for information on a project, it took them several hours to get back to her. In the “old days”, she told me, she would “just walk on down to their office...

These are challenging times and I’m hearing from more and more clients in the workplace about how stressed they feel. It seems the major issue hinges on uncertainty; How can I stay safe from the Corona Virus?Is this recession going to get deeper and is my job secure? Will my kids be going back to school and if not, how will I balance work and home…and I don’t even want to start thinking about politics! In part related to our work...