There is reading, and there is writing. One is learning, and one is contributing. They are symbiotic; one reinforces the other, and both are essential...

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Today was the continuation of a Father’s Day weekend tradition of spending a big chunk of Saturday by myself, wandering around bookstores, reading and...

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I had a thought the other day (among others): The secret to a satisfying lifetime is to die with more interesting ideas than you have time to implemen...

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Today I attended a workshop entitled “HR—Caught In the Web of Social Media,” sponsored by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and featuring Donna Yurdin...

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I have yet to sleep tonight, and technically it is no longer “tonight.” It’s nearly 1 a.m. on March 25, what would have been my father’s 85th birthday...

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It’s easy to make an idol out of one’s own theology, model or theory. The truly humble thinker is able to offer his or best ideas while still declarin...

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The setting was this month's Tennessee State Fair, right in the heart of Nashville. My wife Jenna and I normally hide any section of the newspaper bea...

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"We're human beings, not human 'doings.'" I heard that quote the other day from a motivational speaker we brought in to address a large group of le...

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