When we moved to Connecticut, my daughter Brittany was a freshman in high school. She was a competitive swimmer and joined the swim team. But one of the girls on the team named Lisa, told everyone to ignore Britt because she was the “new girl.” At swim meets I had to endure the girls chant “Go...

Michael E. Gerber of Gerber Enterprises, LRT’s Impact Business Hero, intends - at the age of 85 - to pour his fine old wine of hard-earned enterprise-building wisdom into new bottles. Very new bottles - the youth of this world. Michael is famed for having introduced the “E Myth” (“E” stands for ...

On November 7, 2020, America stepped back from the cliff edge of re-electing a president known for showing disdain for democratic norms. Fusing his own business interests with the White House and labeling the media as ‘enemies of the people,’ he hugged foreign strongmen, sidelined science and tr...

Before we talk about those goats and suggest a better way for Americans to give a different form of thanks on our own special day of abundance, let’s explore the need these animals fill in rural India. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the U.N. e...

There are LOTS of things in this world that make the average person stop and scratch their head to wonder… "why exactly are we doing things this way?" We all know that Electronic Health Records have made patients’ health records legible and readable--the days of illegible, one or two line patien...