Calling on Leadership

In this series principal Rodney A. Max discusses “breaking impasse” as it relates to closing the deal. In complex cases (including mass torts…

Family Councils: Repacking the Baggage

 Couples enter relationships with lots of baggage – good and bad
—packed by their families of origin.

Messages are tucked among:
 • attitudes…

What is Mediation?

Breaking the Impasse  

In this series principal Rodney A. Max discusses “breaking impasse” as it relates to closing the deal. In complex…

Thinking Fast and Slow ~ Part II

  Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011)*
“Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning…

Thinking Fast and Slow

      Thinking, Fast and Slow
     by Daniel Kahneman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011)*
“Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make…

How Will I Be Remembered? Messages and Metamessages

I’m in the de-clutter mode, discarding accumulated stuff to spare my survivors someday sorting through it. The poet Keith Douglas had it right: “Simplify me when I am dead.” Sending outdated professional files to the shredder has been easy, satisfying, even liberating.

NARCISSISTIC LEADERS

The following are extracts from an article “Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons” by Michael Maccoby in the…