Though the title of this journal entry indicates that I’m going to be looking ahead – and I am – looking ahead often requires that we look back as well. This not only provides perspective, but also can demonstrate that our efforts are not futile. What has succeeded before can succeed again. Certainly we can’t …
Current Events
The Metropolitan Museum at 150 – A Special Group of Personal (and Professional) Perspectives
As we move into the final weeks of this year which – truth to tell – few of us can find the words to describe, I am taking it upon myself to describe something very special from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We New Yorkers know and love this museum (once the city’s primary tourist …
Honoring Frances Hesselbein
A few weeks ago, I participated in a very special event. It was Frances Hesselbein’s 105th birthday celebration on November 1. In observance of the occasion, friends and colleagues gathered for a festschrift in her honor. And this was a different kind of festschrift. Instead of the usual reading of scholarly papers, for this festschrift we …
9/11
As this day of limited national mourning comes to an end, I am reminded of something I bring out sometimes. Not every year on September 11, but often, because I need to find some sort of strength in what we – as a nation – experienced nineteen years ago. And this year I choose to …
The Power of Breath
[A comment from Guy: I can think of no more appropriate way to observe the beginning and the end of this summer than to offer this post from my new friend Donita Volkwijn. She is with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, where she is the Manager, Knowledge Management. She and I met recently when I attended a …
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