Jul 28, 2020
Mike Valentine was a blue-collar kid who grew into a blue-collar young man, a longshoreman's son who began working as a steelworker as a teenager, walking his first skyscraper beam at 14. His was a hardscrabble existence: He spent the next decade and a half addicted to alcohol and beset with its devastations -- bar...
Jul 21, 2020
Listening is one of the most necessary, and least practiced,
leadership skills in business and life today. And lest you think
lack of listening is a new phenomenon, brought on by the last few
decades of tech advances that have created tech distractions, think
again. Harvard Business Review found in 1957
that people...
Jul 14, 2020
Fewer than 10 percent of those living with Parkinson's Disease are under 60. Tim Hague is one of them. As a nurse for two decades, he sensed immediately what was wrong when, at age 46, he noticed a tremor in his left toe. His self-diagnosis was soon confirmed, and in the months that followed he pressed deeply into his...
Jul 7, 2020
Ernest Shackleton and the men he was leading on an expedition to cross Antarctica had piled up a breathtaking number of life-threatening crucibles by late 1915. Stuck motionless in polar block ice for months, hundreds of miles off course with no way to communicate their location to anyone who could help, Shackleton...