NOTES ON GOLEMAN, SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE – PART 1
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…
NON-PROFIT BOARDS
The Le Van Company
helps nonprofits improve board governance,
and mediates disputes involving non-profit boards.
We have grown…
MY NEW PARTNER: MR. AGE
“I’m turning the company over to my sons on January 1,” said the founder of a highly successful company with deserved pride. “And what will you do on…
MIDDLE PASSAGE: FROM MISERY TO MEANING IN MIDLIFE
Gerald Le Van’s Notes on James Hollis’ “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-life” Inner City Books, Toronto, 1993. ollis is a psychologist and heads the Jungian Society in Houston, Texas. He writes well but some readers may be turned off by his turgid colorful psychological literary style replete with references to mythology. These notes are for those readers.
MID-LIFE CRISIS
We are happiest in our early years and again in our later years. We’re not so happy in mid-life. Or at least so says the research.
Mid-life can be…
LEARNING TO SHARE
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INTERDEPENDENCE:LESSONS FROM GEESE
On chilly mornings in the coastal marsh you may hear hundreds of wild geese flocked together, gently honking, feeding on found grain. Then, as though…
INCENTIVE TRUSTS
“Medieval alchemists failed to turn lead into gold. Wealthy twenty-first century parents fear a reverse alchemy. Will their children transmute…
HEALTHY WEALTH IN BUSINESS FAMILIES
Reprinted from Business Entities magazine, January-February 2000.
Era Warp
The Modern Era began with the 17th Century Enlightenment and ended…
HAPPY WORK
“Work is much more fun than fun!” exclaimed actor-writer Noel Coward.
Happy work is better work. Happy workers get better evaluations, more…