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Editorials and columns

Feeling more appreciative this Thanksgiving than ever before

As we are now upon another holiday season, celebrating Thanksgiving, I am especially grateful to be able to spend this time with my mother and friends. Since baking turkey is one of my signature dishes, my friends often tease me because I go to at least three grocery stores to find the best ...

Don’t fall into communication traps

Communication is the number one topic my clients identify as a problem area in their organizations. For the ones who don’t self-identify communication as a problem, when we dig in to improving their culture, we nearly always find that communication is one area they could work on to make ...

The tariffs aren’t helping

Ronald Reagan famously said that the most frightening words in the English language are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." U.S. manufacturers must know exactly what the Gipper meant. Donald Trump is a whole-heartedly pro-manufacturing president, and he's definitely here to ...

Put That Smile to Work, Mr. Mayor

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's smile carried him a long way toward being elected. And he used his affability again on Friday, turning the meeting he had requested with President Donald Trump into an Oval Office lovefest. Now it's time for the mayor-elect to employ the power of ...

Hook-up culture is killing itself

Hook-up culture was once propagated to women and men as a way to live freely, independently, and in alignment with their own desires. However, what was once a liberating movement for young people has now become an infection that is rotting my generation from the inside out. As the ...

The unsung hero of Rolling Thunder Mine

Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a "sudden and substantial" flood sent millions of gallons into the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb lived up to his life of ...