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  • Are you calling me a liar? Well, yes. by AnnMaria's Blog on Nov 22, 2009

    I finished analyzing the first set of data from the Tribal Leaders Institute courses and all I can conclude logically is that a bunch of people lied through their teeth on their answers. For example, we had a 24-item questionnaire...

  • What Did I Get Myself in for? Why New Board Members Need Old Values by AnnMaria's Blog on Nov 3, 2009 in board members

    Erich (Dr. Longie) talks a lot about traditional ethical values of persistence, courage, honesty and generosity. To be honest, sometimes I get tired of hearing about it. Yes, it is important not too give up when the going gets tough,...

  • Board Members are not Allowed to Castrate People by AnnMaria's Blog on Oct 18, 2009

    Here is what happens with many boards. You have a group of individuals who have been honestly working hard to improve their community. Far too often, they have been trying to remove the old board members who are putting their...

  • Go ahead, kill your wife by AnnMaria's Blog on Oct 6, 2009

    Years ago, I taught a course on conflict resolution and the opening assignment was the lamp problem. In short, you have  a conflict. You want to buy a blue lamp for your living room and your wife wants a pink...

  • Ethics Make Martha Sick by AnnMaria's Blog on Sep 28, 2009

    The problem with most ethics blogs I have seen is that they are too removed from real life. While, as a professor, I hate it when people say that , it is true in this case. I read blogs on...

  • Giving up on making the world a better place by AnnMaria's Blog on Sep 21, 2009

    I read a really interesting book by Maya Angelou, Letters to My Daughter, in which she mentioned talking to people who lived in the American south back when their were "Jim Crow" laws, when black people were forbidden by law...