Whether they work from home or alongside colleagues, employees continue to spend time fuming over unresolved conflicts, coping with hurt feelings, resenting how women are treated–or men, and wondering when their boss will ever apply best practices for...
Two articles I recently published clarify what we’re doing when we really connect with somebody else–when we recognize something about them as an individual AND know that they see something about our uniqueness. I had to make up a label for this process,...
“Self-quarantine” or “sheltering in place” can be frustrating and uncomfortable. One huge problem is that we’re spending much more time than we’re used to in the same room—or the same limited spaces—with our “loved ones.” The quote marks around those words don’t...
I’m an old white guy who’s learned a lot from several African American teacher-friends. One is Anthony, a PhD with 25 years experience. Two weeks after joining us, he asked me, “What is going on in this town? I hadn’t been here for ten days before I was called the...
How much misunderstanding and violence does stereotyping create? When the Starbuck’s manager in Philadelphia called the police on Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, the “dangerous black man” stereotype was obviously operating. The same stereotype violently surfaced in...
The memory is of the threat of its absence. I’m not alone, but I’m scared I could be. Disconnected. In a void, a space with no footing. No way to be an agent; to matter. Therefore no raison d’etre—literally, no reason for being. The only real hell I’ve ever...
