Category: Columns

  1. Moving Beyond ‘Sides’ to Relational Wholeness

    On most days since Trump took office, the line that has run through my head is from the movie “Airplane!”: “Looks like I picked the wrong…

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  2. The New Realities

    In twenty-four years of writing Weekly Word, this week’s edition is for me the saddest. The events of the past days and weeks are forcing us to…

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  3. Navigating Today’s Disruptive Leadership Winds

    (This essay is largely adapted from a retreat I led this week with a group of non-profit CEOs focusing on today’s disruptive leadership challenges.) “Zuckerberg says…

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  4. A Conversation on “A United Nations for the 21st Century”

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  5. Dumbstruck

    How historians will view these last two weeks of chaos and turbulence following the inauguration of the new presidential regime in America is too early to…

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  6. Radical forgiveness

    Radical forgiveness

    January 18, 2025 News of a ceasefire breakthrough in Gaza was greeted with celebrations in the streets this week, yet tempered by awareness that lasting peace…

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  7. A New Year’s Resolution: Reclaiming the Gift of Being Wrong

    Sometimes heaven is just a new pair of glasses. Father Ed Dowling, advisor to the Founder of AA Here’s a new, New Year’s Resolution: This next…

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  8. A Pivotal Post-Election Decision: ‘Me the People’ or ‘We the People’

    Democracy is on the ballot! This mantra is a non-stop dose of fear served white-hot by presidential candidates and their advocates on both sides in this…

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  9. Animal welfare and its role in sustainability

    Three papers by Donald M. Broom emphasise that, where animals are farmed or otherwise affected by production, their welfare can be scientifically assessed, and that welfare…

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  10. Inside Companies: The current situation with Digital Learning or Virtual Learning

    “L&D Express” podcast hosted by Bert Cherian with guest Michael Fernandes Bert: Hello, everybody. This is Bert Cherian from the L&D Express show. I am delighted…

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