First 21 Days of a Bee’s Life

This photographer was challenged to study bee’s, so he decided to keep bees in his Berkeley backyard.  Very interesting! Watch the first 21 days of a bee’s life in 60 seconds and learn more about threats to bees and what scientists are doing to protect them.

Is there truly a gender bias?

I recall sitting in one of my management course at Wharton listening to a highly intense conversation going around the classroom.  The topic: bias in the workplace, specifically gender and cultural/ethnic.  Sitting in my chair I thought the idea was absurd.  Sure, there may be some gender or cultural bias occasionally, but not nearly to […]

The Marshmallow Test and Future Doom

Do you remember at some point hearing a story about the famed Marshmallow test?  Put a kid in a room with a marshmallow in the table in front of him.  Tell him he can eat it now, but if he waits until [the researcher] gets back, he will get two marshmallows. One now, two if […]

Should Productivity be the Goal?

We often talk about being productive.  Did you have a productive day?  I was productive today?  I want my kids to be productive members of society? But what do those sentences mean, and should productivity even be the goal? So many are talking about productivity.  From business people to life coaches, even I recently wrote […]

My System for Productivity

There seems to be an infinite catalog of resources on the topic of productivity. Every self-proclaimed productivity guru will share their 5-Step-Secret-Process to turn you from a procrastinator to an lean, mean, efficient machine.  (Do you ever wonder if they actually follow their own advice, or is it just me?) If you read one book, the […]