I met with three student researchers at the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University last week, about an intergenerational program in the works for a client. As the two researchers from the Americas (one North, one South) lamented that their grandparents were not so savvy with technology, the student from China chimed…
This is a story about the power of mindset and kindness. My 87-year-old mom is safely, successfully, back at home, after a four-day trip to and from St. Louis, through LaGuardia airport and onto a destination wedding at a beautiful farm in a small town in Connecticut. It was her first outing since she broke…
It is that time? Measure success of the year ending and plan for goals for 2022. Of course if you may have started this much earlier. I’m in more of a “holy $&*@ how is the year over in two weeks?” kind of space. The Three Words Part of my annual process includes…
How many roles do you play in your life? A friend just came back from a business trip to Spain and Portugal obsessing over Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Or was it Bernardo Soares? Or maybe it was Alvaro de Campos? It was all of them…in one! It seems that Pessoa created work under some seventy-six…
Who Has the Right Answer? Of Course It’s YOU! It felt like a Diane Keaton or Meg Ryan movie. Maybe Jane Fonda? The siblings flock home around a parent in crisis, with all the parallels you can imagine in terms of the adult child “archetypes” that show up in the movies. There’s “the doctor”…
I’m spending the next three days at the Heartland Fall Forum (we’re broadcasting live from there at noon!). It’s the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association/Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association trade show, with several hundred publishers, authors and independent booksellers…aka the people who are NOT banning books and who are off their phones (unless there’s a book…
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” That quote has been attributed to Desmond Tutu, Wendell Philips and Thomas Jefferson, among others. (Thanks to Anna Berkes for trying to get to the bottom of who said it first—it looks like it wasn’t any of them.) Whoever said it, it’s on my mind after reading…
What do you do? I’m participating in the Milestone Circles Program for women business owners at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. On the first day of onboarding, we were asked to take our “what” and layer it with our “why’s.” We were encouraged to think of the most annoying (ahem, adorable) two-year-old ever and go deep.…
Between LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and G-d know what other sources are available in print or online, there are experts at everything nowadays. Many experts are self-proclaimed. But also bountiful are those with third-party credibility because there are so many “news” sources running 24 hours a day that need experts to provide “authoritative affirmation” of whatever…
How would you fare if your thought bubbles were visible to others? While you may be eternally grateful they are not, I hope, however, you are aware of your own spontaneous thoughts. After all, those are a reflection of your unconscious biases. And the first step to overcoming unconscious bias is to be aware of…