By Courtenay Barnett 25th February, 2018 President of the United States of AmericaDonald Trump1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW,Washington, DC 20500,USA Dear President Trump, Re: Need for an Executive Order:- It is with great sadness that I express my condolences on the…

The Truth will make you free, if you can use it to solve problems OR SO IT SEEMS TO ME TODAY By Richard John Stapleton, PhD, CTA It seems there is more talk about the need for a new war,…

Or So It Seems to Me Today It seemed going into the third quarter that Georgia was going to wind up the US national champion in football last night, Monday, January 8, 2018. Unfortunately Coach Sabin decided during the half…

By Richard John Stapleton Burl Ives playing Big Daddy told Paul Newman playing his son Brick Pollitt “Life ain’t no football game, boy” in the movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which I saw in…

Or So It Seems To Me Today By Richard John Stapleton Getting old is not fun per se but it is interesting. As most transactional analysts believe and think they know, especially certified ones such as I, the human brain…

by Courtenay Barnett It was 1968. I had been sent to a Catholic High School and had a number of Jesuits from the Boston area of the US as teachers. One striking contrast between the older and the younger ones,…

By Richard John Stapleton (Editor’s Note: This fictional business case invented and written by me was first published in Managing Creatively: Action Learning in Action by University Press of America in 1976; it was reprinted in The Entrepreneur: Concepts and Cases on Creativity…

THE HUMAN CONDITION By Richard John Stapleton, Editor & Publisher The world has always been a screwed-up place. And there has never been enough food, furs, spears, game, land, water, fish, timber, shoes, shotguns, rifles, fishing tackle, plows, cotton, houses,…

by Richard John Stapleton In my immediately preceding Effective Learning Report post I published an article I wrote titled “An Inspiring Educational Meeting in the Country Club near Statesboro, Georgia” in which I said I am an Independent politically and…

By Richard John Stapleton Debbye and I attended a meeting Saturday afternoon September 16 hosted for Dr. Sid Chapman by Bill Herring, president of the local Democratic Party, at the Forrest Heights Country Club in Statesboro, Georgia. My wife Debbye…