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In late April 2023, I was invited to participate in a production of Listen to Your Mother, a national series of live readings by local writers in celebration of Mother’s…

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Unfreeze. Change. Refreeze. It was a useful metaphor for understanding organizational change when it was first introduced. We have German-American psychologist Kurt Lewin to thank for it. Lewin is known…

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