https://www.aei.org/op-eds/american-men-suffer-a-friendship-recession/ It’s not just as a result of the pandemic that men are having a difficult time engaging with other guys in a bond of friendship. This trend has been going on for a while and is likely exacerbated by the fact that many friendships are formed in the workplace, which is now undergoing great …
https://www.foundersspace.com/surviving-a-startup/ A great idea is one thing. Operationalizing that idea is another. Haven’t we all had the one big notion that we thought would be a million dollar opportunity? As you’ll hear in this podcast, I shared mine with our guest. Yet, like most of us, I never went the extra mile to try to …
I really enjoyed reading this book its an amazing adventure. Jon K
https://www.policingproject.org/team/ Defund the police? Provide less immunity for their bad acts? Create a national standard for their training and ways to de-escalate a situation? Augment the term public safety to include social workers and mental health specialists? Depending upon who you talk to, all of these matters are part of the concept of ‘police reform’. …
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-3213-8.html Dan Glickman has had a very interesting life. Following his years as a Congressman from Kansas, he became Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture and later the president of the Motion Picture industry, replacing the legendary Jack Valenti. In his new book, “Laughing At Myself: My Education in Congress, On the Farm and the Movies’, …
https://veronicagoodman.com/ The enhanced Child Tax Credit(CTC) was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the American Rescue Plan. While temporary to start, if successful, it may well be remembered as the most important part of that legislation. Some social scientists are comparing its potential impacts for children and middle and lower income …
https://robertglennon.net/books/ Our guest likes to use the straws metaphor to get across the point that all the users of the world’s most precious resource must accept that given population growth and climate change, one of the key solutions to a growing water crisis is to recognize that if your straw stays in the glass, some …
https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Distance-Practical-Lessons-Virtual/dp/1119782449 Your office for the duration of the pandemic was wherever you, your phone and computer were. And while some companies are calling everyone back into the office, many others have recognized the value and benefits of remote work. The work from home trend is now being factored into the culture of many companies as …
https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/ Our guest dedicates his book to ‘the 86 percent of Americans who are currently exhausted, miserable, and desperately seeking a way out of the culture of contempt’. I’d imagine many of you are among that legion, so why are we letting only 14 percent of our nation lead us into deadlock, dysfunction and national …
https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/daiga-kamerade If you google ‘work too much’ you will find lots of references to the ill effects of an unbalanced life when you spend too much time on the job. These effects include harmful medical, mental and social consequences. A new study discussed in this podcast attributes 745,000 thousand deaths worldwide in 2016 to the …