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 7: SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS

I. The High Road and the Low Road
Our social brains are hard wired to connect with other people. We are designed to be sociable, even in routine…
NOTES ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 6: FINDING THE SOCIAL “SWEET SPOT”

“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…
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…
HAPPINESS AS A SURVIVAL SKILL

According to anthropologists, our brain architecture has changed little during the past 250,000 years. Our brains still carry strong primal survival…
NOTES ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 3: NARCISSISTS, MACHIAVELLIANS AND PSYCHOPATHS

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…
NOTES ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 2: DEFINING SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

People on busy city streets worldwide are less likely to notice, greet, or offer help to someone else because of “urban trance&rdquo ; — a…