Like most humans, I have a strong bias towards certainty. When my wife became pregnant for the first time, I rushed to a bookstore to...

Regarding the recent government shutdown a couple quotes caught my attention: “We’re very excited. It’s exactly what we wanted, and we...

I have written and spoken much over the years about “family fusion” – Dr. Murray Bowen’s description of how family members give up “self”...

Can family members who work together benefit from emotional separateness? Blanket reverence for family togetherness often shields family...

Every week, I hear some form of this question from business owners, young adults, and mid-lifers. It comes from those just getting...

“People would rather believe than know.” E.O. Wilson Professor Emeritus, Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Two-time Pulitzer Prize...

I want to tell you about three similar telephone conversations I had this past month: A surgeon called from another state to ask if I...

My clients report that they sometimes make bad hiring decisions for key leadership positions. They tell me their selection processes...

After you read this blog, you might not be itching to take a walk in the woods. Every year, 350,000 Americans discover that a casual...

A client and his wife (I’ll call them Don and Clare) are going through a divorce. Their three college-age children are fairly...