by Ircel Harrison | Mar 20, 2012 | Opinion
Steve Inskeep interviewed Prof. Shankar Vedantam on NPR recently about compromise. Studies show that Americans have ambivalent feelings about compromise in politics. They vote for people who say they won’t compromise their values, but they are disappointed when...
by Ircel Harrison | Mar 7, 2012 | Opinion
In a post on EthicsDaily.com, pastor Guy Sayles wrote, “For many years now, I’ve had a growing conviction that the great Catholic theologian Karl Rahner was right to have claimed: ‘The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at...
by Ircel Harrison | Mar 1, 2012 | Opinion
Perhaps one of the greatest and simplest inventions of the last century was the map at the mall with the dot that marked the spot where you were standing when you read the map: “You are here.” On one occasion, I thought to myself, “Where else would I...
by Ircel Harrison | Feb 16, 2012 | Opinion
Management guru W. Edwards Deming is reported to have said, “Yesterday’s solutions are today’s problems.” Solutions or responses to needs are formulated for a particular time, place and context. Often they deal with the immediate problem, but...
by Ircel Harrison | Feb 7, 2012 | Opinion
A favorite expression in my family of origin was, “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.” It was not used just at the dinner table but also as a reminder that sometimes we attempt more than we are capable of completing. I thought of this when I...
