I’m at the amazing Omega Institute this weekend, at the amazing Women and Power gathering, where the amazing Elizabeth Lesser helped to open the conversation. She called upon the stories of Eve and Cassandra, and upon the wisdom of Toni Morrison, who advised, as you enter positions of trust and power, Dream a little […]
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo * Though the summer seems meant for leisure, sometimes it is also jam-packed with priorities that seem to compete. Fortunately, […]
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 […]
Investing is power. Where we choose to focus our resources – it matters. That’s why I’m always interested in where our leaders are investing their own resources – their time, attention, energy, finances, and material resources. Last week Pope Francis released his first long publication, the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), […]
Some Honeybee readers will know that I’ve devoted a great deal of time over the years to empathy – trying (often in vain) to practice it, and trying to study it too. This is not so uncommon these days, even in business and finance circles, where there is more and more discussion of “EQ” in […]