Have you ever known someone who, just by appearing before you, annoys the living daylights out of you? Every time she opens her mouth you cannot fathom what confluence of thoughts could have led to her inane statement. When he comes up with what he believes to be a brilliant idea, you realize in just…
Yesterday, I met with colleagues to facilitate a conversation about how we deal with difficult people. We could have talked for hours. This blog begins a series addressing the different types of difficulty we may run into when dealing with people. So what is a difficult person? The answer does not actually exist. Difficult…
Recently, as I sat in an outside cafe, I overheard a conversation between two women who I gathered to be sisters. They were deciding where to eat lunch before each returned to work. They got into a bit of an argument. At the height of it, one sister snarled, “You don’t really care, you just…
In 1969, Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull wrote a book. It was meant to be funny. Though, with most things humorous, its hilarity rested on its truth. The book conceptualized the “Peter Principle”. In many organizations, those who are good at what they do get promoted. And they keep getting promoted. In fact, they get promoted until they…
In today’s climate, with war raging and tensions rising in the middle-east, the Ukraine, South Sudan, Iran, Syria, Korea, Iraq (to name a few), we have a heard a great deal about what is needed for peace. These conversations bother me even when I believe the political strategy is correct. It is not peace we…
There is a famous Jewish story about rabbis arguing vehemently about a particular law. They become so irrational in their anger and self-righteousness, they ask the river, trees and walls to perform supernatural acts in order to prove their own conviction. In a final act of bravado, they call upon the voice of God to…
After leaving a play at The Lesher Center for the Arts, my husband and I sat not so patiently in a line of cars waiting to get out of the garage. As we chatted about the play, the audience, how much to pay the babysitter, we noticed a growing commotion at the front of one…
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