Making Choices

By Dean Whittaker In his book “How Will You Measure Your Life,” Clayton Christensen, a world class thinker and Harvard professor, describes his theories regarding how to think about the critical decisions we all make that can bring happiness and success in...

Feeling Gratitude

By Dean Whittaker As summer draws to an end, and the cycle of life moves to fall, I have been reflecting on what I have learned during this summer time. Perhaps the largest reminder has been to feel rather than think. I have felt the joy of learning coming from the...

The New iPad (iPad3)

By Dean Whittaker For those of us with a technology addiction, the New iPad definitely can scratch that itch. After three weeks of use, I have found it to be a good addition to my ever-growing collection of the “latest” technology including the iPad1 and 2. To assist...

Where Do Jobs Come From?

By Dean Whittaker With globalization has come the ability to source work anywhere in the world. The economic thought was that as the world economy grew, the demand for our goods and services would grow too, and we would all prosper. As we now know, things haven’t...

Wisdom and Hope

By Dean Whittaker While driving from Michigan to Connecticut this month, I noticed that the federal economic data that I had been hearing about in the media did not jive with what I was observing during my travels. What I saw was factory after factory with full...