How corporate America is tackling unconscious bias

Elizabeth G. Olson, Fortune, January 15, 2015 Equality is a worthy goal—but it’s tough to achieve when unconscious bias so pervades the American workplace. Certainly women have made inroads in corporate America, but a Pew Research Center survey...

The Fundamental Ambiguity of Being Human

Pema Chödrön, Tricycle, Fall 2012 As human beings we share a tendency to scramble for certainty whenever we realize that everything around us is in flux. In difficult times the stress of trying to find solid ground—something predictable to stand on—seems to...

Speaking While Female

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, The New York Times, January 12, 2015 When a woman speaks in a professional setting, she walks a tightrope. Either she’s barely heard or she’s judged as too aggressive. When a man says virtually the same thing, heads nod...

At Airports, a Misplaced Faith in Body Language

John Tierney, The New York Times, March 23, 2014 Like the rest of us, airport security screeners like to think they can read body language. The Transportation Security Administration has spent some $1 billion training thousands of “behavior detection...