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 …
https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Halliwell/e/B001HOF1XE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Despite major advances in medical science and epidemiology over the last century, the United States has not significantly improved its ability to predict and handle public health emergencies. With our fractured system of local, state and federal responsibilities our historic approach to responding to health crises has been uneven. Its a continuing theme in …
https://www.stevenmintzethics.com/about-steve You hear the terms ‘cancel culture’ and ‘wokeism’ bandied about these days as if people even understand what they mean. If we’re honest our political divide, now of legendary proportions, results in each side not listening to the other. Yet the terms cancel and woke, derisive in tone, have been appropriated by the right …
https://www.gideonspromise.org/gideons-promise-book/ There is growing immediacy to issues surrounding criminal justice in America. The focus is often on police violence, mass incarceration, and inequities in how justice is meted out depending on the color of the skin of the perpetrator or the victim. Yet one element of this system that has gotten little attention is the …
https://oxbowadvisors.com/category/market-notes/ While the economy is showing signs of life as restrictions have been lifted on businesses and the pump has been primed by the federal government throughout the pandemic, there are concerning signs that inflation may eat away at some of the gains we are seeing. The question is whether this will be a short …
https://maddydychtwald.com/ The many generations that are growing old in today’s America are as different from one another as they are from the millennials and Gen X’ers. There is no way to look at the experiences of those in their 60’s and equate them to the fastest growing population in the country, those 85 plus. Yet, …
https://www.amazon.com/John-B.-Judis/e/B001HCY4VQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share A clash of competing political movements in America result in leaders presiding over a fractured and dispirited electorate and a troubled political economy. And while President Joe Biden has attempted to restore the political order to something reminiscent of more conventional times, his success or failure could usher in a new wave of strident …
http://www.minnastern.com/ The answer to the question posed in our title of this episode is an emphatic ‘no’. Regrettably, the practice of eugenics has occurred in the United States, more specifically in California, through the 1970’s. And it has occurred in many other countries. You could look it up or just listen to our podcast, featuring …