[caption id="attachment_6557" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Click the image to see larger size detail."][/caption] You have a passion for art, and for encouraging and promoting artists. It’s been your dream to open an art gallery – a place to infuse your passion. But a gallery takes resources – a lot of resources – and it looks as if...

L.L. here, just back from the IAM Encounter conference, where I met Ron Kelsey. Ron is an artist. And he is a soldier. For me, the issue of war has always been full of tension. As a child, I listened to my stepfather tell stories of WWII. He told them with bravado and edgy laughter. But he was a haunted man who brought his torments into my life in a...

A friend of mine owns a company, and his employees get a little on edge when they see him coming their way. It’s not that they don’t like him - he just has this tendency of asking a lot of questions. And his questions usually make people a little uncomfortable. He's never satisfied. Suppose you are feeling pretty good because the customer...

Tell me:  Are your coworkers caterpillars or butterflies?  Creepy, slinking, sticky-fingered bugs . . . the kind you sweep off the porch? Or the colorful, graceful, winged creatures you watch with joy? The answer is:  both.  We're all both.  A caterpillar is a butterfly-in-waiting.  Those colleagues whose work habits annoy you or whose behaviors...