I was struck recently by a Youtube video I was watching where a Jerusalem based University professor, Sydney Engelberg, who has gained Internet fame, fielded interview requests from all over the world, and has earned devotion from parents of infants everywhere, all because of a simple gesture: Holding a student’s fussy baby while […]
Every year my wife and I like to go the Sydney Opera House where the House hosts the ‘Festival of Dangerous Ideas.’ It is gathering of Thought Leaders who present on various topics that many people find challenging, provocative and dangerous. Ideas in politics, economics and ecology and the list goes on.
This year we […]
How true is this caption? But I wonder how many of this nation’s fathers who are going to celebrate Father’s Day, really appreciate the layers of meaning embedded in it?
It is easy to step up on one day and celebrate the joy of fatherhood. But isn’t the real challenge being a Dad, most clearly […]
As the United States moves further forward in its gladiatorial display of hegemonic masculinity in its search for a new President, it is clearly evident that the observation that ‘men have palaeolithic bodies, neolithic brains, medieval institutions and modern problems,’ has reached it’s most clearly articulated expression in the current Republican contenders.
To say that […]
Recently I sat in a session with the parents of a teenage boy. They had come to see me deeply concerned about their son’s ‘internet addiction’. It was their definition of his behaviour, one not offered by me. However, having worked with all forms of addictions, I felt that they possibly had a point. […]
How true is this caption? But I wonder how many of the millions of father’s who are celebrating, and being celebrated in the USA this month, really appreciate the layers of meaning embedded in it?
It is easy to step up on one day and celebrate the joy of fatherhood. But isn’t the real challenge […]
First impressions: Woody Allen did it right. The only way to shoot New York was in black and white. Why? Because it truly is a city of contrasts. Contrasts of people, of wealth, of poverty. Contrasts of races, classes and religions all mingling together but yet apart.
Everywhere there are stark reminders that contrasts bring […]
One of the current catch cries in the corporate world is ‘gender diversity’. Now, maybe I’m a bit dense, but I’m not sure what that means given that there are essentially only two genders.
I think this calls for some clarification. What we really need to be talking about is gender equality. And that, dear […]
Whether we like to admit it or not, there is a war going on, and it’s right in our homes. In fact it’s an age-old battle that started about 11, 000 years ago at the beginning of the agricultural revolution.
That war, folks, is between men and women. I know it sounds dramatic, but there […]
“To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
Gore Vidal
What happens when an Iron Age Warrior is let lose in a modern boardroom?
Well, according to a recent article I read, some very bad things. The least of which is to earn Eddie Lampert, the Sears’s CEO, […]
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