You are the place where I stand on the day when my feet are sore. This is the literal translation of “mo sheasamh ort lá no choise tinne,” the Irish phrase for trust, as noted by Pádraig Ó Tuama. I’ve been thinking a lot about trust lately, partly because every survey and every statistic shows […]
Hello Honeybees, This past week I’ve been reading some of FDR’s speeches, and a number of excerpts have stuck with me, especially the State of the Union addresses from 1941 and 1945. The most striking quote, though, was from a smaller speech given in 1935: Human kindness has never weakened the stamina nor softened the fiber of a free […]
“Kindness is not niceness.” I will never forget the first time someone called me “nice” at work, and how obvious it was that this was not a compliment. I silently vowed to crush them with my ferocious niceness, which I must admit felt pretty good. But how I wish I had replied instead, “I’m not […]
I have long been an admirer of Byron Wien, longtime investment strategist at Morgan Stanley and Pequot, and now Vice Chair at Blackstone. For many years he has had the courage to go out with his signature “10 Surprises of the Coming Year” list, and even more courageously, at the end of the year he […]