Author: testingapersonalhistory

Where Does Your Authority Live These Days?

A Mystery Story Series How Much Control Do We have Over Our Lives Anymore? And Do We Care? Is it the Internet? Part 1 Detective stories always appealed to me. Hardy Boys books were often a quarter or less at the used books dealer in the tented emporium known as Frankie’s Market in North Jersey, […]

Madelyn Blair Interviews Me on Reinvention

In a very welcome event where I managed to blend experiences and insights from both of my major careers — ​Chief Learning Officer and ​Playwright – – ​Madel​yn Blair​, executive coach, TV host, president of the Conscious Business Network on e360tv,​ and old friend from our days in the world of organizational knowledge and learning research, invited me to a discussion on reinvention. That […]

A Poll Is A Lower Quality Type of Knowledge

Many friends looking at my work history of well over 50 years perceive a kind of crazy quilt (is that too outdated a metaphor?) of careers. While there were many different jobs ranging from girls basketball coach to reform school teacher to alcoholism counselor to actor and playwright to barely competent bartender to psychiatric hospital […]