“Just Tell Me What Poverty Means” Like Shaq and Kobe, Martín Burt and Luis Fernando Sanabria form a team for the ages. Martin, Executive Director of Fundación Paraguaya, dreams the impossible. Luis Fernando, Chief Operating Officer, takes over from there. He develops plans to achieve the dreams within budget. But one day, Luis Fernando had had…

“Just Tell Me What Poverty Means” Like Shaq and Kobe, Martín Burt and Luis Fernando Sanabria form a team for the ages. Martin, Executive Director of Fundación Paraguaya, dreams the impossible. Luis Fernando, Chief Operating Officer, takes over from there. He develops plans to achieve the dreams within budget. But one day, Luis Fernando had had…

In the year before his death Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. published the book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? In one of the chapters, based on his Nobel Peace Prize lecture, he develops the image of all people in the world living together in the same…

Am I Safe? If you talk to the people who run TV newsrooms about how they decide which stories run first, they’ll tell you that they lead with reports that deal with the safety of the audience. They know that those are the pieces most likely to grab our attention…

Latoya Latoya tried to tell her case worker that she was subject to seizures and could not work a regular job. Her case worker at the welfare office told her to go anyway. A few weeks later she suffered a seizure while at work, and her employer told her not…

The Business Roundtable (BRT) now believes that businesses should pursue social objectives in addition to profits. I wrote a post about their change of heart a couple of weeks ago. So now I’m collecting evidence to see if they mean what they say. The early returns are not good. Fail …

A New Purpose for Corporations? On August 19, 2019, the Business Round Table, a gathering of 200 of the largest businesses in the US, decided to change the purpose of a corporation. No longer is a corporation’s sole responsibility to its shareholders. Now a corporation will also be responsible for…

What would you do if you were one of the few mental health professionals in your country and the people you wanted to serve could not afford to get to your office? I would like to introduce you to Dr. Dixon Chibanda, one of only 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe, a…

Parbati knew she could not survive this pace. As an immigrant from Nepal to the Untied States, she worked 14 hours a day and earned only $300 a week. Rent, food and transportation took all the money back. She knew her employers were taking advantage of her, but what could…