"This We" Can - Colleen Barrett - Former President and COO, Southwest Airlines

Deb Boelkes, my wonderful Co-Founder, recently returned from an amazing trip, that I refer to as: "Deb did Dallas," wherein she interviewed and videoed (stay tuned for those) some of the most heartfelt leaders that we have met so far in identifying, celebrating and learning the secret sauce of people and companies that "dare to care."  What we are discovering is that these people don't "dare to care,"  these people don't know any other way than caring.

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How Will People Remember You Today?

Are you a Jerk or a Mensch?

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What (Wo)Man's Best Friend Can Teach Us About Being Heartfelt

Loyal Dog Attends Church of His Deceased Owner Every Day

A German Shepherd Dog who was adopted by a woman as a stray, has been attending the church they visited together every day since she died. The loyal dog named Ciccio was rescued by 57-year-old Maria Margherita Lochi after she found him abandoned in a field near her home in San Donaci near Brindisi, Italy.

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Fotolanthropy Fotostory: Evan's Family - A Father's Love

It doesn't get much more "heartfelt" thank this.

Fotolanthropy Fotostory: Evan's Family - A Father's Love from Fotolanthropy on Vimeo.

Ethics is No Match for Adrenaline - The Neurochemistry of Business as Usual

One person’s value is another person’s ROI.

What does this mean?

When you're a company your value is in how well your products and/or services serve your customer's and client's needs and wants; when you're an investor, like Vince Lombardi said about "winning," "ROI isn't everything, it's the only thing."

What fuels this seemingly insurmountable gap?

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What Caused the DC Shooter to Snap?

After feeling put down and pushed away long enough by the world, your mind can sometimes create voices telling you to get in and get even.

Well another tragic shooting and tragic loss of life that again seems so senseless.  As a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist I have tried my best to make sense of what, why and when causes Aaron Alexis and other shooters to snap.

This is a work in progress and I invite any and all to refute, dispute or refine what follows.

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What should Obama do when Congress says, "No" regarding Syria

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing - Edmund Burke

Given President Obama taking his case for action to the world and Congress against Syria in response to their use of chemical weapons the above quote might be amended to say, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people become so war weary that they do nothing."

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Obama and Putin - "They don't see the sky"

You can't solve a tranformational problem with a transactional solution. 

What follows (and I can't attest with certainty to whether the pictures are in the correct order) is what happens when two transactional warriors meet.

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