A Shot Of Optimism

“Not to decide is to decide.”  – Harvey Cox, Harvard Theologian Both parties are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours trying to get you to vote.   Yet in spite of [...]

When you go to work do you feel constrained and uncomfortable?  You know the feeling.  It’s like pulling on a shirt or sweater that’s too small.  You can’t wait to get it off, it’s driving you [...]

Do you ever feel plagued with bad luck?  Some people have good luck – but you don’t seem to? You’ve heard of ROI – Return on Investment.  Well there’s actually ROL – Return on Luck.  Even [...]

“Comparisons are odious”  – Shakespeare Nine women sat around a stone fireplace in a cottage on the Rhode Island coast.  Ranging in age from late eighties to early forties.   [...]

Outside the window red and blue lights flashed and a line of red lights snaked its way toward our plane. The flight attendant spoke into the intercom.  “This is standard procedure for an [...]

My husband Umberto and I lived in Caracas for a dozen years.  As an executive and consultant to the US Embassy, I made presentations, wrote proposals and managed a household in Spanish.  But [...]

Last week I spent four days at Social Venture Institute, the amazing conference for 100 or so entrepreneurs and social enterprise leaders who are using business to change the world.  The [...]

When I was in my twenties, I’m a Baby Boomer, so it was a different world, I had the notion that when one “grew up”, that life somehow settled down to a predictable “happily ever after” pattern. [...]

Last Thursday I was watching the sun rise out of the Atlantic from the coast of South Carolina.  On Monday, I was watching the sunset in English Bay in Vancouver on the edge of the Pacific [...]

Is your boss grumpy or unappreciative? Do you have a co-worker who takes credit for your ideas? Is your company or industry in decline? Most of us don’t do anything about situations like these [...]