Resolution Strategies

It took longer than expected -- 99 days to be exact -- and Opening Day had to be postponed from March 31st until April 7th, but Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) finally reached a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) on March 10th. Despite sta [...]

Russia's unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine understandably has the world on edge. For the first time in most of our lives, the possibility of countries becoming entangled in a ground war in Europe is no longer hypothetical and the threat of nuclear war is suddenly far too real. The noble [...]

With Super Bowl LVI less than two weeks away, allow me to share a bit of football trivia with you. Prior to 1912, there was no such thing as an end zone in what is referred to as "American" football. The field of play extended from one goal line to the other and a player was required to cross the op [...]

For months, 100 Senators and 425 members of the House sat staring at the ceiling — once again. Just as they had done in 2013, and 2011 before that, the 525 members of Congress sat there, seemingly ignoring the escalating warnings of doom coming from economists and Wall Street, fearful of the dire co [...]

With Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday and the first three nights of Hanukkah already in the rear-view mirror and just 24 more days until Christmas, I'm reminded that gift-giving and negotiating share at least one attribute in common. In both, reciproc [...]