“I’m not trying to change people. All I want to dois change the world in which they live.”B.F. Skinner During the 1980s, I was coordinator of an ABA day and residential program that served children and youths with severe behavior and communication disorders (the SBCD Program) at Vermont Achievement Center. The demographic leaned heavily toward […]
I blink my eyes, and thirty-six years have gone by. Einstein famously said “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl [or any attractive other] for an hour, and it seems like a minute”. There’s also the adage “Time flies when you’re […]
New Year’s Eve marks the close of our 35th year. SD Associates was birthed as a kitchen table enterprise on January 1, 1990, and oh… the places we’ve been! The short list: We live in unsettling times, but it’s important to remember that there’s nothing new about that. I’m in the early stretch of my […]
I did not direct my life. I did not plan it. I never made decisions.Things always came up and made them for me.That’s what life is. B.F. Skinner I am the ordinary son of an ordinary man. Which is pretty self-evident, I know. But, as I started to unearth that fact, it became clear to […]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast…Alexander Pope You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.I hope some day you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.John Lennon Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.Desmond Tutu The black hooded specter steps […]
(Leadership Comes from All Directions) James MacGregor Burns (1978) began a conversation about ‘transformative’ versus ‘transactional’ leadership forty-three years ago that retains considerable traction. He defined what leadership ‘does’ as follows: In this, Burns took the discussion of leadership beyond the ‘traits’ of a leader to arguably the heart of the matter… contingencies in context […]
