Len Zwelling

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Making It Up: What MH370 and Religion Can Teach Us About Leadership By Leonard Zwelling          I believe (please note choice of verb) that the evidence is incontrovertible that the need for religion is hard wired into the human psyche. As much as eating, breathing and sex, somewhere within our DNA we have a desire

Academic Bracketology By Leonard Zwelling          It’s March Madness time again. I assume this season has this name because the fans of over 60 teams will be mad by the end of the month because their favorite college basketball team is not among the Final Four. As a graduate of a university with many Final

Strategery (With apologies to Will Farrell) By Leonard Zwelling        I am now working in the second organization in which a strategic planning effort has been launched. Like most such efforts, it is likely that this one will probably generate less benefit than the gathered board and executives anticipated at the opening meetings to organize

Where the Hell Is It? By Leonard Zwelling      As I write this on March 15, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 is still missing. It is very hard to understand how, in the era of Facebook, Twitter, Skype, CNN under your bed and gotcha on live TV, humans have misplaced a huge airplane. First thoughts

Pornography and the Four-Letter F Word By Leonard Zwelling      That got your attention, I bet!      No, I am not going to write about porn, even, as Trekkie Monster points out in Avenue Q, “in volatile market, only stable investment is porn.” A co-ed at my alma mater has now taken the use of

The Dangers of Multiculturalism By Leonard Zwelling       This is not a diatribe against political correctness although I have no love for the PC crowd. The multiculturalism I am talking about here has nothing to with religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference or country of origin. Rather it’s about institutional culture.       I always liked

INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judgmental): 2% of the People, Most of the MD Anderson Administration By Leonard Zwelling          My time at MD Anderson was a roller coaster ride. It started by being beaten into academic unconsciousness while presenting my research at a Leukemia Department seminar for Dr. Frieriech shortly after arriving in 1984. It

Is the MD Anderson Faculty More Like the Ukraine or the US? By Leonard Zwelling          Previously, I have written about the option for civil disobedience on the part of the MD Anderson faculty as a way to gain some purchase with regard to the administration’s tight hold over the institution. My ideas have gone

Take Shelter By Leonard Zwelling          In this 2011 film by Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon plays a man haunted by visions of a coming storm of Biblical proportions. So worried is he about this pending doom that he builds an elaborate storm shelter and when a storm brews, he and his family take to it.