In some ways, the conflict in Syria has been hardest on women. More than 100,000 people have died, and four million have been forced from their homes. Women shoulder a heavy burden. The culture is already a harsh, compulsive environment for them. Often, they are forced into marriages and occupy a role as second-class citizens.…Read More
Short-term is Short-Sighted
In Aspen Institute
Short-Term is Short-Sighted We had a phone conversation with Miguel Padro at The Aspen Institute on the questionable pursuit of “shareholder value” as a central business strategy. He agreed that it’s become a destructive obsession with public companies, thanks to Wall Street’s avidity for short-term profits. The conversation ranged fairly widely but we tended to…Read More
Evil comes in many different forms. But it is our own responsibility to recognize it and more importantly, to do something about it. This book is a great reminder about how we can overcome obstacles and painful experiences in our past and shows us that we are faced with constant choices between good and evil…Read More
To read Peter Georgescu’s THE CONSTANT CHOICE is to share the life journey of a unique man–a highly successful business leader who is capable of examining his own life with remarkable candor, humor, self-questioning, and depth. Partly the memoir of a life spent struggling to outgrow the effects of a childhood under Communist brutality, partly…Read More
The Goodness of Gump
In Forrest Gump
When Forrest Gump first came out, I had a friend who said this film, more than any other one she’d ever seen, spoke to her about pure goodness. Though I hadn’t thought of it quite that way when I saw it, her words rang true back then and they seem even more accurate now that…Read More
