The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Some children naturally have more cognitive control than others, and in all kids this essential skill is being compromised by the usual suspects: smartphones, TV, etc. But there are many ways that adults can help kids learn better cognitive control.