New York City is a cultural smorgasbord. Walk down the street and you might hear three or four different languages spoken in five minutes. On any given night you can find great guacamole, or delicious shawarma, or yummy pad thai. It’s like no other city in the world. How did this happen? Did someone plan […]
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Should the cabin lose pressure, oxygen masks will fall from the overhead compartment. Please place the mask over your nose and mouth before assisting children…or adults acting like children. – my JetBlue flight attendant An airliner cruising at 30,000 ft experiences a rapid loss of pressurization. The air in the cabin thins from 15 PSI
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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by life? Like everyone is looking to you for answers, but you’re all out? Like you’ve led everyone this far, but have no idea where to go from here? As leaders we tend to think we’ve got to have it all together – and when we don’t it can feel
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I had a Brigade Commander who used to say in the middle of our planning process, “Remember: We don’t know what we don’t know.” As a green second lieutenant my first response was something akin to, “Well, duh. How does that help?” Ah, the brash naiveté of youth. Luckily, his words stuck with me and
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Federal holidays are funny. They’re always set up with a specific purpose in mind, but people tend to do whatever they want with them. And I think that’s just fine. Honestly, I’m in that boat most of the time. Take Memorial Day for example. Originally conceived to honor the Union soldiers of the Civil War,
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