I’m not sure how many people have read the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I thought it was a phenomenal book years ago when I read it, even though it’s one of the largest books on record as far as number of words, coming in around 645,000. I loved the story of Dagny Taggert, […]
Leadership
Many years ago, I inserted myself into a situation that was clearly sexual harassment; unintentional, but sexual harassment nonetheless. Because I was a director at the time, I felt an obligation to do something about it, even if it was just to talk to both parties and encourage the director to make a big time […]
By now, everyone has heard about the incident in Philadelphia where 15 police officers pulled 3 black men from a building and started beating them without restriction. For once, it wasn’t just some guy standing on a corner filming it, but a news crew whose helicopter just happened to be flying overhead. At this point […]
Many of us don’t think of it this way, but fear drives most of what we do in our careers. We get a job because we’re afraid we won’t be able to make it working on our own. We don’t take a lot of chances because we fair being rebuffed or making mistakes. We work […]
I’m not the only one who’s ever asked this particular question, but it’s my first time doing it here: why do all those rappers look so mad? Why? Because it helps them sell records, that’s why. Most of them really aren’t that mad at all; why should they be? Many of them are rolling in […]

