In the film “Wall Street,” a broker who is about to lose his job and perhaps his freedom, is advised that when a person stares into the abyss he takes a true measure of his strength. Toda...

We are all in search of rewards and awards. Money, fame, power, honor, recognition. Some admit it more readily than others. Some find the need to camouflage it. But the quest is universal. All that...

It is simply amazing how some things endure. I have not seen my first love for a lifetime, but that moment of transition from every girl I ever knew to the first one I loved, well it has proven to be...

From birth, we are all told the things we cannot or should not do. Interesting, but these warnings, of sort, often come before and with greater vehemence, then the advice on what we can and should as...

In many ways, there is nothing more dangerous than “making progress.” In many ways it is a failure that wears the camouflage of success. We become hypnotized, sometimes intoxicated, by th...

We all remember the science class where we learned about the Skinner box. We watched rats run around in search of treats, the reward they gained if they turned to the appropriate dispenser. As we obs...

We build our careers, our businesses, in order to achieve tangible results. The more ambitious we are, the greater demands we make on ourselves to soar beyond the expected and to rise to the extraordi...

Most of my adult life he has been there, on the television screen–horn-rimmed glasses, thick German accent, steely eyes– opining on the sweep of human events: war, plague, genocide, coups,...

The other day I listened to a journalist, of sorts, bragging that he played golf recently with the President of the United States. Wonderful for the reporter’s ego. Terrible for journalism. Of...