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“Let My People Go” is the refrain Moses said to Pharoah.  It became a song sung by African Slaves in the 1800’s and Civil Rights activists in the 1960’s.  But freedom yearned isn’t enough.  It needs to be earned.  That’s the lesson of Passover. Passover celebrates the freedom gained by the Israelites from the Egyptians.  What’s not commonly known is

Does having a defense system designed to repel aggression mean one should invite attack or rest on one’s laurels awaiting one? I’m not referring to the Iran-Israel conflict.  I’m referring to a dental practice that’s cruising along; has enough new patients, a stable team and a healthy cash flow.  Such a practice might have been immune to attacks from the

Don’t let a moon block out your sun.   There’s been much said about “servant leadership”, which has been defined by some asconsensus or even individual rule.  I call BS on such a strategy, whose primary aim is to create happy employees and not offend anyone. What happens when an employee blocks your growth? While people are the foundation of

This past week the world lost 2 giants, Senator Joseph Lieberman, and Dr. Daniel Kahneman.   I knew Dr. Kahneman through his work and Michael Lewis’ “The Undoing Project”, and I knew Senator Lieberman personally.  In the early 80’s, he married a woman from the Bronx, where I lived then, and when he visited, sat next to me in Synagogue.

In the story of Adam and Eve, God warned Adam not to eat the fruit of only one tree in the Garden of Eden.  After woman is created, the serpent goaded her into convincing Adam to eat of this tree’s fruit, which has been accepted to be the apple.  By eating of the apple, the lives of Adam, Eve and

The practice was on a steady growth trajectory.  Everything seemed to be going well.  Then Jane, one of the 2 receptionists who had worked for 5 years in the practice, moved away.  Her replacement Sarah was bright-eyed and eager to start her job.  Sarah stepped into the office ready to greet patients with a warm, welcoming smile eager to assist

Article II, Section 3, clause 1 in the United States Constitution states that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”  This is the basis for the now yearly custom for the Commander-in-Chief to deliver information

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In his book “Good To Great”, Jim Collins discusses howgood companies grow into great ones.  The framework he discovered was that great companies have disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action.  “Confronting the brutal facts” is a discipline practiced by the leaders of the companies studied. Yet today, brutal facts are explained away. o Increase in automobile fatalities. o Increase

Shouting over people and cancelling them has become so commonplace that people are numb to the impact.  The incident pictured above, which was seen by over 120 million people last week is pathognomonic of a trend.  So, it’s a worthy topic to consider this President’s Day. We think of such behaviors as common in Dictatorships, Autocracies, third world countries and