Over the weekend I read the following two news items: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is practically alone on the job, working night and day to cope with the worst economic downturn in decades. Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came abo...

“Whatever banks did, I did the opposite.  If banks lent to the rich I lent to the poor. If banks lent to men, I lent to women. If banks paid large loans, I made small ones. If banks required collateral, my loans were collateral free. If banks required a lot of paperwork, my loans were illiter...

******* The answer is Love expressed through service and friendship. (For those are the two most common forms of Lovexpression on our planet.) But if Love is the answer, what is the question? A fascinating conundrum. The question must be something like this: "How should I spend the next few seconds ...

Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: .:Axle:. There’s a common thread that runs through leadership teachings starting at least 2500 years ago with Lao Tzu, who said, The superior leader gets things done with very little motion. He imparts instruction not through many words but through a few...

Middle School After the heavy handed move by the ALA to put me directly under a library in some of my most impressionable and tender years I would eventually be thrown into that circle of Hell that Dante’s feared to even imagine let alone describe, middle school. I don’t know who the genius E.d....