I HAVE TO SEE THE CHIPS FLY Years ago a workplace research group from California approached some loggers in the Pacific Northwest. They made what seemed like an offer too good to be true. “We’ll double your pay for the next month. All you have to do is swing...
Stories
No One Really Noticed
NO ONE REALLY NOTICED “Most of us stand out in our own minds… Each of us is the center of our own universe.” Those words are from the opening paragraph of a landmark 2000 study that was published under the daunting title The Spotlight Effect in Social Judgment: An...
Ash Wednesday
ASH WEDNESDAY Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Christian season of Lent. Lent comes from the Old English term for “lengthen.” As Easter approaches the amount of daylight grows longer. More than a thousand years ago followers of Jesus began to set aside the 40 days...
Be A Grasshopper
BE A GRASSHOPPER In the book of Numbers, chapter 13, Moses and the people of Israel stand at the threshold of the Promised Land. Behind them lies slavery in Egypt. Ahead lies the land “flowing with milk and honey,” the place God had promised to Abraham. The Lord says...
Ain’t You Tired?
AIN’T YOU TIRED? The 2012 film The Help depicts life in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 – particularly the intersecting worlds of the black women (“the help”) who work as maids, cooks, and child caregivers and the white women whose households they serve. Hilly Holbrook, one of the housewives, is...