The Golden Age of Neuroscience

I watched an absolutely delightful presentation today about leadership and neuroscience.  The references cited were a who’s who of the best popular neuroscienceresearch available (I know that sounds like an oxymoron but trust me, books like Antonio Damasio’s Descartes’ Error or Gerald Edelman’s Second Nature  really are “popular neuroscience” — readable, accessible, brilliant science.  The speaker today connected their [...]

Extravagance and Self-Restraint

A number of the people I’ve been working with in the last few months are struggling with a similar problem.  In the Fall and into the Winter of last year, these companies tightened their belts and sent a clear message to employees that every penny that could be counted should be counted and that the [...]