The Audacity of Progress

The Audacity of Progress

A Personal Reflection on the Trayvon Martin Case This piece was also published on the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Blog The circumstances of Trayvon Martin’s death bring back memories of my childhood. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. The Brooklyn of my...
Empathy in Eight Minutes

Empathy in Eight Minutes

The first duty of love is to listen. — Paul Tillich In 1994, I participated in a short training experience that changed my life. The instructions for the exercise: Be quiet for eight minutes while someone tells you his or her life story, then switch and tell your life...
Getting Wet

Getting Wet

During the late 1990s, I had the pleasure of participating in an Outward Bound program during leadership training as Kellogg National Fellow. So many elements of that experience have stayed with me over the years. One that I often think of involved a leadership game...
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