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  1. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Life is a Spiral: What Coming Back Around Teaches Us (opens the original)

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    Over twenty years ago, I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me whole.I was in my dissertation advisor’s office, meeting with all three members of my doctoral committee. My committee was an amazing group of esteemed, yet busy, professors. Meeting with all three of them together was a rare occasion. It offered a chance to align expectations and ideas for my dissertation. In my enthusiasm for my emergent research, I started the meeting by saying, “I think the whole world is paradoxical.” They

  2. Issue · Aug 11, 2026

    Stick the Landing (opens the original)

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    Not with a Whimper, but a Bang.s(T.S. Elliot … reconstituted!)What do you do when you feel that exhausted energy at the end of a conference, event, project or even a vacation?Last week, I attended our largest professional conference - the Academy of Management (AOM). I experienced extra planning and execution intensity this years both because of my formal Division Chair role and my informal interest to host events with the conference in my hometown of Philadelphia. At the end of the

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