Exorcise the Spirit of ghosting
The Ethical Lexicon #8: What to say when you don't know what to say Have you ever been ghosted? You've never ghosted someone else, have...
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Yonason Goldson
- 1 day ago
- 1 min
Core Values Keep you from Walking in Circles
The Ethical Lexicon #9: focus on ultimate goals; shut out false attractions Are you traveling in circles? It certainly feels that way...
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Yonason Goldson
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Tension is what Holds Everything Together
The Ethical Lexicon #7: "Just chill" is not always the answer Is there really any such thing as good or bad character traits? The answer...
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Yonason Goldson
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Ethical Leaders Create Dynamic Systems
The Ethical Lexicon #6: Reverse the effects of cultural entropy What do Bob Dylan, Michelangelo, and “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Master the Art of Constructive Disagreement
The Ethical Lexicon #4: Practice the discipline that promotes clear thinking, fresh insights, and informed consensus. A Yiddish proverb...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Ethical Leaders Encourage Growing Pains
The Ethical Lexicon #3: A three-step process for leaders to use balanced pressure to achieve team success. Do you want to live a...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
Replace Irrational Optimism with a Roadmap for Action
The Ethical Lexicon #5: Cure toxic culture without falling victim to unreasonable expectations Over the last several years, schools...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Chanukah: The Origin of Cancel Culture
Resist the subversion of darkness in the name of enlightenment. Chanukah may be the most misunderstood of all Jewish holidays. It's not...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
Do Your Words Make Your Colleagues Cringe?
The Ethical Lexicon #2: Here's how to upgrade your conversations Do you remember the last time you heard a musician hit the wrong note in...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
Train your Brain to see Clearly
The Ethical Lexicon #1: Discover new truths to reveal endless possibilities George Orwell said: If thought corrupts language, language...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
The Death of Humor?
Is there a middle ground between hypersensitivity and social cluelessness? Is there a better way to deal with difficult people? Maybe we...
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Yonason Goldson
- Sep 20, 2022
- 1 min
The Wall of Separation?
Revisiting the true intent behind the First Amendment Are we making things more complicated than the need to be? Is not the "wall of...
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Yonason Goldson
- Sep 6, 2022
- 1 min
The Best Job I Ever Had
The year I learned that the secret of wellbeing lies in service “You’ll leave here after four years with an education few people have had...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 25, 2022
- 2 min
Accept the past, embrace the future
Reflections on the complexities of family memories Today would have been my father’s 100th birthday. He was a complicated man. A child of...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 17, 2021
- 1 min
A rabbi and a shrink walk into a bar...
Enjoy this profile of our insightful and groundbreaking podcast When is it OK to mislead, deceive or outright lie? What causes hate? How...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min
Insights that will train your brain to be more disciplined
Keeping our bodies in shape is important. But what if the prescription for physical health can teach us how to improve our emotional,...
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Yonason Goldson
- Sep 6, 2021
- 3 min
Balancing the Scales of Freedom
Originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2001, the week after 9/11, between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. It was Judgment...
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Yonason Goldson
- Aug 26, 2021
- 1 min
Success is in the palm of your hand
How do we do a better job handling it when we get flustered and defensive? How do we give and receive criticism in a way the builds...
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Yonason Goldson
- Aug 18, 2021
- 1 min
The Ethics Consultant -- Episode 1
Rent control? Your best friend lent you a thousand dollars to pay your overdue rent. But you didn’t use it to pay your rent. Why not? The...
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Yonason Goldson
- Aug 12, 2021
- 1 min
The long way home
"Let your eyes look directly forward, and your eyelids will straighten your path." --Proverbs Or, as Yogi Berra said, if you don't know...
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