When confronting life’s challenges, do you have a rigid, fixed perspective? Or are you flexible and resilient?  Dr. Angeles Arrien, a multicultural anthropologist and author of The Four Fold Way, uses the phrase – Open and Not Attached to Outcome – to describe one of the key life lessons she has learned from the world’s indigenous people.  What a simple pearl of profound wisdom! more

In this age of soaring federal deficits, do you know that preventable accidents cost the Department of Defense $15 BILLION dollars annually? According to Secretary Robert Gates’ policy statement published May 30, 2007, $3 billion/year is lost in direct costs (e.g. medical care of the injured) and $12 billion/year in indirect costs (e.g. lost work time, delays in mission fulfillment, etc). more

Just think what $6.5 billion directed to U.S. small businesses could mean to our economy’s recovery and job growth.  Prime contractors (REALLY LARGE businesses) for government contracts could have provided such a financial boost last year, but failed to do so.  How? more