Leonard Zwelling

Varenye By Leonard Zwelling          Varenye is a term I came across in Ari Shavit’s book about the birth of modern Israel, My Promised Land. Varenye is a jar of fruit preserves stored in the cupboard by Eastern European Jews. This food is reserved for times of trouble (pogroms mostly). Varenye feeds your family when […]

The Only Job I Ever Loved, and Giving It Up By Leonard Zwelling        Ten years ago today, I resigned from the only job I ever loved. On the morning of June 23, 2004, I eliminated the position of Associate Vice President for Research Administration that was occupied by Dr. Carleen Brunelli. I relinquished all

The Normal Heart Is Anything But By Leonard Zwelling          Larry Kramer is one angry guy. The man who wrote The Normal Heart, a wrenching depiction of the effects of the inadequate public and government response to the onset of the AIDS epidemic on the gay men of New York, is still angry all these

Silos By Leonard Zwelling      Sometimes I think I should have gone to A and M for agricultural training rather than to U of H for business school. I always seem to wind up in organizations full of silos. http://m.entrepreneur.com/article/231532      A blog reader forwarded this piece to me that he stated characterized MD Anderson,

Happy Birthday, Watergate By Leonard Zwelling       June 17 is an important date in my life. In 1961, I was Bar Mitzvah’d. This did not make the 6 o’clock news then or now, but I remember it anyway. As my readers know, I still use the Webster’s Dictionary I received that day and I got

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/sports/baseball/tony-gwynn-8-time-national-league-batting-champion-is-dead-at-54.html?hp&_r=0 The proof that loyalty, persistence, study and hard work are truly the keys to life and hitting.

Saving the Global External Environment With The Individual’s Internal Environment: Resigning, Recalling and Car Culture By Leonard Zwelling      My recent blog about Eric Cantor’s loss last Tuesday being due to his losing touch with his constituents suggested that being one with the political environment, in this case those people a politician represents, might have

First You Lose Touch, Then You Just Lose By Leonard Zwelling       Poor Eric Cantor.  All queued up to be the first Jewish Speaker of the US House of Representatives, yet this Wednesday morning he found himself a lame duck. Quack! Now he will step down from his House leadership position, watch the food fight

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