WOMEN KEY TO BRIGHTER FUTURE IN MIDEAST
Two years ago I flew to Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf. I was a guest speaker at the first annual meeting of the Council of Arab…
WHAT AGING CLIENTS WANT MOST: AVOIDING KING LEAR
King Lear, Shakespeare’s most tragic character, had a crazy estate plan.
Lear would abdicate his throne, and then divide his lands among whichever…
WARREN BUFFETT AND PROFESSOR POZA: IMPATIENT SHAREHOLDERS IN TRYING TIMES
Economic downturn may intensify ongoing tensions between inside owner-managers and their outside inactive shareholders, particularly in family-owned…
THE HAPPINESS RESEARCH
The Declaration of Independence enshrines “the pursuit of happiness” as our inalienable right. But what is happiness? Who is happy? And how does one…
SO LONG, LONER — IT’S ALL ABOUT TEAMS NOW
The next sentence may require heavy lifting, so give it a tug.
“Dialogue accesses knowledge that is otherwise inaccessible to individuals…
SIBLING-SHARED INHERITANCES
Red Flags, Yellow Flags…or Green Flags?
In his “Children in a Rowboat” articles 1 , Atlanta attorney Robert Edge perpetuates a popular notion…
REMARKS BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST
George Mason University Commencement
May 22, 1993
Time is a wasting asset. Most of us realize this truth too late to avoid spending a lot of time…
OUTSIDE DIRECTORS’ EMOTIONAL ROLE
Directors are well advised to heed the old adage ‘noses in, fingers out.’ But in family firms, don’t forget about the heart.
“Noses in, fingers…
NOTES ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 5: STRESS IS SOCIAL
Part V: Stress is Social
Medical science has begun to detail the biological pathways through which others get under our skin, for better or…
NOTES ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 4: GENES, ENVIRONMENT AND RELATIONSHIPS
Since the human Genome project was complete in 2003, geneticists have been swamped with new genetic information. How do the genes we were born with…