Gigapan.org is worth a few minutes of your time. Especially for the purposes of this column, being a reflection on leadership, it inspires the imagination. When you open it, you will see an enormous long-shot panorama of the inauguration. Impressive, but it is when you zoom in, with exceptional clarity, to any detail, that you […]
Current Affairs
The Lady Yoda: An Unexpected Black Belt
She’s a sixth degree black belt, weighs in at about 92 pounds and is a petite 5’2″ tall. And that’s not the cool part. What goes on in her head, her philosophy about life, as she teaches the (mostly) men students she works with, that’s the cool part. Meet the strikingly attractive Aikido master […]
Re-Solution for 2009
Happy New Year, and this is going to be short: Stop looking at the idea of a New Year’s resolution as being another promise that you break. Instead, look at resolution by breaking the word down into its parts. You, your business, and I all need new solutions for the coming year. New ways of […]
The Obama Effect
Sometimes, it is true that you just don’t know, until it happens, how you will feel about something. This has been the case since Mr. Obama was elected to office. Even those who voted for him have said that they didn’t realize what an impact it would have on them. It is different, they say, […]
Big Brown’s Belmont Bust or Breakout?
You might not believe this: I once seriously considered going into the racehorse business. So much so that while other young women received gift certificates or jewelry to mark the rite of passage known as high-school graduation, my parents gave me a trip to the Kentucky Derby. Sitting in a private box right on the […]