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It was a crisp Saturday morning. Turning into the nursing home I would see my mother for the first time since she slid into the mental abyss of Alzheimer’s. Nothing used to give me more joy than to see the welcoming eyes of my mother. But knowing the disease from my...

Isabelle left a voice mail on her friend’s answering machine. “I need to talk! I am in trouble!” After retrieving the message, her friend ran down the backstairs of their apartment complex and pounded on Isabelle’s door. Isabelle pulled the door open and...

When you meet people for the first time, what’s the first thing you do?Is it to evaluate the people and think, “Hmm, he looks unfriendly” or “She doesn't like my type” or  “That group is out of my league, I'd better avoid them.” If you think this way, then...

Debra sat before her manager in tears. After almost two weeks of sales training, she could no longer bear the pressures. Debra passed her tests, she even excelled at some presentations, but she didn’t participate much with the class, and worst of all,...

A sense of competition must be inbred as part of our primitive instinct to achieve predominance, because all of us have it. Most think of competition as trying to best a person or team. But what if we lived alone on an island? Would our sense of...

It may be uncomfortable for some to acknowledge, but faith has become an increasing force in the workplace.  Faith practices and diversity are on the rise in the United States, and the combination of these trends has created the need for employers to accommodate...