Category Archives: The People

All about the people side of business and life.

“Culture” is hot right now

I was speaking recently with the CEO of a successful, growing e-commerce services company. The subject was organizational culture, and how to consciously create it. Coincidentally, another call a day later with the CFO of a 2,000 person biotech company … Continue reading

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Can we truly eliminate segregation?

The word “segregation” means the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. In its most negative application to humans, it means labeling people according to a caste system that ranges from the most … Continue reading

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Who’s “we”…?

Whenever a news organization interviews someone about the Big Issues, we invariably hear the person interviewed starting sentences like this: “We should…”, and “We shouldn’t…”, and “What we need to do is…” Then they fill in the blank with a … Continue reading

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Language drives our psychology

The state of being conscious has eluded definition, and certainly no one knows how it “emerges” from neurological systems. However, we do know that our consciousness is closely connected to the human mind’s propensity for symbolic representation of our experience, … Continue reading

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