Cognition. Nuanced perspective, owning the weight, dark hours.

It’s critical for executives to overcome this cognitive tendency to quickly make insufficiently informed binary choices. A decision to buy or sell, keep a project in-house or outsource it, work in the office or work from home, to name a few examples, can make or break a business and a career. And an in-between or hybrid option might be best. For instance, designating someone a leader versus manager artificially limits the person’s potential because executive roles require both skill sets. And the sharing economy was built by injecting alternatives into binary decisions, such as whether to own an automobile. Moving beyond binary choices creates a nuanced perspective on potential risks and opportunities.

Poem written by Solomon Ghosh after his cancer surgery:

Strength

I feel the pressure trying to push me into the earth and fail. All the weight of my self-doubt pushing down on me. I quiver and shake but I keep pushing through. Veins Bulge and muscles quake and teeth grind, but I embrace the struggle. The pressure becomes mine and I own the weight. I refuse to give in and I conquer the gravity against my soul. My doubt becomes my past and I prepare myself for the next challenge.

Historians have long known that the middle of the sixth century was a dark hour in what used to be called the Dark Ages, but the source of the mysterious clouds has long been a puzzle. Now, an ultraprecise analysis of ice from a Swiss glacier by a team led by McCormick and glaciologist Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine (UM) in Orono has fingered a culprit.