The Leadership Blog

I used to sort of roll my eyes when people would make plans and decisions around the weather forecast or how many left turns were involved. But last weekend my husband and kids and I were driving...

I’ll never forget the day my siblings and I said our final goodbye to our father. Just a few days after Christmas in 1998, the four of us traveled to a red covered bridge atop a creek in southern...

When it comes to colds and other minor health disturbances I’ve always taken the approach of “ignore it and it will eventually go away.” This works for me. Now, I may not be the epitome of health –...

“Super Storm Sandy” has just lapped the edges of Indiana, but even so we’ve seen wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour, which overnight felt like the Big Bad Wolf trying to blow down our house. I...

I dragged my daughter with me the other day to purchase myself new pair of jeans. At the store I went directly to the jeans shelf, while my daughter meandered and oohhhed and ahhhed over everything...

Erika's reflection on how the Golden Rule plays out for her, both at work and at home.

After a quick stop in Connecticut at the end of my recent trip east, I headed back down to the city on the Metro North train. I was absent-mindedly staring out the window when we passed an enormous...

I am staring a forty. Staring pretty closely, actually, as it’s just six days away. Forty. That would be a four followed by a zero.

I’ve decided to stop making to-do lists, as it has become clear that they are evil purveyors of my daily failures.