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As we flew out of Phoenix, a flight attendant pointed to the book I was reading, "The Number" by Larry Eisenberg, former editor of Esquire magazine....
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Journal of Practical Estate Planning, June-July 1999, p....
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...
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...
“Frazzle” is a neural state in which emotional upsurges hamper the workings of the brain’s executive center – when the biology casts out of our...
Part V: Stress is Social
Medical science has begun to detail the biological pathways through which others get under our skin, for better or...
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...
In “I-It” relationships, we treat others as things, not persons. One’s I-It approach can be merely detached or utterly exploitive. “I don’t care...
People on busy city streets worldwide are less likely to notice, greet, or offer help to someone else because of “urban trance&rdquo ; — a...
Part I: The High Road and the Low Road
Early in the Iraq war, a U.S. Army platoon was dispatched to a mosque to ask advice from the town’s chief...