Perspectives
Here in the United States, is a natural disaster an attack on one state, or an attack on all?
Hmm. Why does the question seem familiar? Oh yes! The same idea is enshrined in NATO treaty article 5: The...
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Bromley’s No science, no surplus – revisited.
In 1999, D. Allan Bromley, a former science advisor to President George Herbert Walker Bush, wrote an op-ed for the...
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Science Helps You Thrive: Strong U.S. Scientific Leadership Raises Us All
An open letter to Americans The administration is instructing all federal science agencies to plan for budget and staff reductions...
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Bullying? Not an effective habit for turbulent (or any other) times.
Tell me something I don’t know, Bill. Most of us consider this is something we’ve always known – innately, or...
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Effective habits for turbulent times #7. Sharpen the saw.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” –...
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Effective habits for turbulent times #6. Synergize.
E pluribus unum (out of many, one) For years, the unofficial motto of the United States[1]. …Our differences are our...
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Effective habits for turbulent times #5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of...
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Effective habits for turbulent times. #4. Think win-win.
“No man is an island…, entire of itself; …any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and...
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Effective habits for turbulent times. #3. Put first things first.
Let’s review. Are you living on the real world? Do you want to make that life – your life –...
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Effective habits for turbulent times. #2. Begin with the end in mind.
(Continuing the seven-part LOTRW mini-series) “What do you want to be when you grow up?” (we all remember this question...
