Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 9:13PM 
"Warren, you liked me! You really liked me!" - with appreciation to Sally Field
My last mentor, Warren Bennis, died a year ago on July 31, 2014. As a psychiatrist I have known about and observed what is referred to as anniversary reactions in friends and patients, but I have never experienced one of my own. That is until today.
Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 7:10PM 
There is no shortage of people like Bruce Jenner whose thoughts, feelings and actions defy analysis even as they crave understanding.
If I'm like you and you're like me, we both watched Diane Sawyer's interview of Bruce Jenner and you too may have been transfixed by it being poignant, touching and not unfamiliar.
Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 2:33PM Man's inhumanity to his fellow man
>Man's power to heal his fellow man
What would happen to the world if every day every person spoke with another person as Naomi Feil did with Gladys Wilson?
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 8:27PM 
Inspired by Michal Lev-Ram's Fortune cover story, "Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech" (you should read it)
One of your most important responsibilities to the companies whose boards you serve on is to make sure it has the best CEO.
If you agree, I think you need look no further than Tim Cook at Apple and Bob Iger at Disney.
Why?
Mark Goulston Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 10:20AM 
This has been a year that can use all the Joy we can feel. But when Xmas and Joy to the World pass on December 26, we should remember that "what the world needs now is love sweet love."
Love at its best overflows with tenderness. Tenderness is what comforts and heals pain and suffering from the inside out. Pain is pain, suffering is being alone in pain. When you take away people's aloneness, suffering they can't tolerate becomes pain that they can. The problem and challenge is that tenderness can't be rushed and in our go-go, get more, sooner world it is actually in danger of becoming extinct.
Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 2:42PM Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 9:21AM 
Arrogance + Power + Humiliation = Eye for an eye retaliation
Since I posted my previous blog, A New Paradigm to Fix the World - Fixing a Failure to Consider, I've heard from many others. Their reponses further caused me to ponder how little America truly understands other countries and other leaders such as Kim Jong Un and Putin.
The more primitive, arrogant and prideful a person's personality (not to be confused with lack of intelligence), the more inclined they are to react in an: "eye for an eye" fashion especially when they feel humiliated.
Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 8:19PM 
In the iconic movie Cool Hand Luke, the prison Captain played by Strother Martin uttered on more than one occasion the iconic line, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
That situation appears every bit as present today as it was then. The reason it continues is what underlies a failure to communicate. And that is a failure to consider.
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