Positively Powerful Insights

Don’t Hire Certificates

You are certain to run in to trouble if you are only relying on resumes, endorsements, certificates, degrees or social media to help you with your vetting of potential hiring candidates. An enormous amount of money, much of it wasted, is being spent on HR outsourcing research and recruiting of candidates. Funds are being spent also on [...]

What Happened to Human Potential?

For over two or more decades, large corporations have taken the concept of Human Potential and filtered it through the sometimes impersonal process called Human Resources. What has survived in the corporate world is the rhetoric of change, the managing of legal issues, and making differences for the organization good with all too often none of the substance [...]

Hoop Dancing, Heard Museum, and Hampton, VA

The Heard Museum World Champion Hoop Dancer competition which “draws together top Native hoop dancers from throughout the United States and Canada ” was amazing. According to the Heard brochure, “(The hoop) is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and [...]

African Native Americans

An important group of men and women has been left with no box to check in the 2010 Census: Native Americans with African origins. The 2010 Census provides us with boxes to check for gender – male, female, other questions, and race. Question #8 asks “Is the person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?” and offers 4 boxes of [...]

Celebrate Haiti’s significant contribution to our world, as you give.

In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti's vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today -- as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.

Extreme Leadership: On Coaching Trust

If you feel your faults and defects prevent you from seeing the faults and defects of others, remember, you may be the only contact with God someone may have today. Be proud of that.” Iyanla Vanzant I read that quote this morning. It is from Iyanla’s One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. One Day… is [...]

AAHSA & ABHOW Advocate Making Homes For Your Mother & Fathers

Get involved in aging- yours and others. Advocating, working, and serving in the industry for the aging is rewarding work and because I (Dr. Joel Martin, the one in the middle) am an aging Baby Boomer, there is a bit of a self-serving aspect to it. My sphere of influence is the ABHOW Corporate [...]

Respectful Aging LGBT Services

Loree Cook-Daniels delivered a comprehensive tutorial on respectfully serving the aging LGBT populations at the annual conference of AAHSA. She has a wealth of information on her website. Here are some of the points she made and there were more available. Respect is a must for everyone and in any situation: Use the client’s terms: Reflecting [...]

The Responsible Life — A Positive Start to the Year

So how do we live the responsible life. To begin with we can start with having purposeful conversations. Conversation that produce an understanding of what is really import to each of us.

When it comes to our health, are we poorly informed?

Is it fair to say that all of us would rather be healthy and avoid illness? Are we really lazy and not wanting to do the type of research necessary to fully understand the options that are available to us? Could I be eating better then I am, excising more? This much I know is [...]

Links for 2010-03-03 [Digg]

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

Why I Love NYC: Visiting the African Burial Memorial
Auntie and I made a trip downtown today to attend the opening of the African Burial Memorial at 290 Broadway near Wall Street.

Links for 2010-02-28 [Digg]

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST

African Native Americans
There is much to be learned and appreciated about the connection between Black/African Americans and Native Americans. Cultural similarities abound.

Links for 2010-02-14 [Digg]

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Heard Museum World Famous for a Reason Auntie Carrie's
The Heard Museum is one of the most informative museum in the country. You can get a truthful understanding about this country, the people and what we can be both proud and shameful for.

Links for 2010-02-13 [Digg]

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Astrology: You Complete Meâ
An astrology note for Happy Valentine’s Day!

Links for 2009-11-29 [Digg]

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Not Always in our Best Interest
There are some things that we are pretty sure of, things that we know work and are are good for us. Yet we go out of our way to support efforts that are
What is an American?
There is a stereotypical assumptions made which is that only certain types of people should be able to represent themselves as Americans