“What If There Were No George Floyd Video?” That’s the title of Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece in The New York Times on June 6, 2020.
“There is no video to show that a black boy born today in Washington, D.C., Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi or a number of other states has a …
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This month I created a Vote by Mail project for Oregonians to help raise awareness about the ease of voting by mail in contrast to the experience of Wisconsin voters who risked their lives to vote in their April 7 primary.
First I posted an announcement on Facebook. Then I sent…
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“Do things that make you happy!”
That’s the recommendation of David Rock in a recent webinar titled “Coronavirus: What Science Says Leaders Should Do.”
Rock is the co-founder and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute whose goal is to use science to make organizations more human. https://neuroleadership.com/
The guiding hypothesis of the NeuroLeadership Institute is…
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Inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s newest book, Tightrope, I step boldly away from proposing small steps this month. Instead, I share five big steps they suggest to regain America.
High-quality early childhood programs
Kristof and WuDunn believe this may be the single best thing we could do in the United States to…
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Tightrope, the title of the newest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is the metaphor describing the life of America’s working class for whom one misstep is frequently a catastrophe. “Stagnant wages, weak education, bad decisions and a lack of healthcare force millions of Americans into a precarious…
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On this fourth anniversary of launching My 1000 Small Steps journey, I share the perspective of Richard Davidson, the Founder of the Center for Healthy Minds based at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Davidson’s work has demonstrated the neuroplasticity of the human brain – a cause for hope.
The goal of My…
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