Recently, I had the pleasure of escorting an up-and-coming young professional who is just learning the sustainability business on a tour of two facilities that reprocess plastic and rubber. But what made this tour particularly gratifying to me was the mere fact of our being able to take it, and that the individual I was

Before signing off on my latest series of blogs offering readers my recommendations for cultivating business relationships and burnishing one’s professional image, I have one more bit of advice along those lines: never sign off without offering your assistance in some manner. The power of a conversation – especially over the phone — becomes amplified

Recently, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas attracted attention – and got himself lampooned on “The Daily Show” — for a remark he made in response to a fellow justice’s joke about Yale Law School. It wasn’t what Thomas said, however, which consisted of   “Well — he did not — ,” that was considered so noteworthy