Jobs/Professions “Professional chaplains are forbidden to proselytize, and unlike most everyone else on the medical care team, we do not have an agenda for curing…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016 The word “chaplain” is of Christian origin, but today it refers to a clergy...
Jobs/Professions, Travel, Work, Writing “Writers and travellers alike do their best work when they don’t know what they’re looking for…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 February 2016 Writers and travellers alike do their best work when they don’t know what they’re...
Jobs/Professions, Work “As C.E.O., I learned firsthand what an emotional roller coaster it is to run a company.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 December 2015 As C.E.O., I learned firsthand what an emotional roller coaster it is to run...
Jobs/Professions, Work “Google researchers…studied the company’s employees to determine what made the best manager…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 December 2015 Google researchers…studied the company’s employees to determine what made the best manager. They assumed...
Jobs/Professions “If everyone can do something, it is no longer rare enough to pay for, even if it is vital” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 December 2015 If everyone can do something, it is no longer rare enough to pay for,...
Jobs/Professions, Travel “A professor needs to be a professor in a classroom, and a rabbi needs to be a rabbi when officiating at a wedding but neither needs a title on vacation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 November 2015 A doctor needs to be a doctor around patients but not at a shul...
Jobs/Professions, Work “…to prepare students for the change in the way we work, the skills that schools teach may need to change” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 November 2015 Even as technology eliminates some jobs, it generally creates others. Yet to prepare students...
Work “I want everyone talking about what they would do to make this better. It is amazing what comes out of those meetings.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 November 2015 I have a meeting every few months that I call a “pile-on meeting.” I...
Work “The biggest thing in my life is really daring to be human…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 October 2015 The biggest thing in my life is really daring to be human, and that’s...
Clothing, Jobs/Professions, Work “The notion of ‘blue-collar jobs’ emerged in the 1920s, following the metonymic model of the ‘white-collar worker'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 October 2015 The notion of “blue-collar jobs” emerged in the 1920s, following the metonymic model of...