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In life, it is not the elephants
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
Every time a person with an automatic weapon kills several people in some public venue a colleague or client asks me “Are we getting...
Performance reviews: getting it right
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
Archimedes said “give me a long enough lever and I can move the world.” Some years ago, I visited with...
Organizations that exist to do good
By John Langhorne and Nancy Quellhorst/Tree Full of Owls
Alexis de Tocqueville noted that when several Americans with a common interest came together they often...
Changing the nature of jobs: a solution to entitlement?
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
In the last column we enumerated the multiple benefits of having a good job. It’s pretty clear that jobs are...
Work makes life sweet
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
Some time ago I was teaching at a small residential college and noticed that high school students would enroll in...
Reflecting on the power of solitude
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
It is unusual to have a conversation with a client about a person without some mention of the employee’s personality.
There...
Mars and Venus – private and public sectors
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
This column was co-written by Rick Fosse, Iowa City’s public works director.
If men are from Mars and women from...
Poor expectations can lead to poor consequences
By John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
“You see Colonel Pickering, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the...
Take time to reflect as 2012 begins
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
In an earlier article, we took a rather comprehensive overlook of happiness. Recently, I came across a fine little book...
Celebrating the land between two rivers
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls
Steven Bloom recently wrote an article that ran on the Atlantic magazine's web site titled "Observations from 20 Years of...