Elyn Saks receives funding from Sydney Baer Foundation, the Battery Powered Group, and the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. She also serves as a board member of the ...

Conversations about the need for nonprofits to improve their performance and results abound, but we often pay little heed to solutions that stand right in front of us. I gained clarity on such a ...

To provide a procedural mechanism whereby ethically and medically appropriate health care decisions can be made for patients who lack health care decision-making capacity and for whom no surrogate ...

The Public Guardian (PG) is a mechanism of last resort for protecting the interests of the most vulnerable in society-those who cannot care for themselves and have no friend or family willing to care ...

Studies involving people who may not be able to provide their own consent to take part in research can be daunting. These practical tips offer a guide to ethical and inclusive research with this ...

A fair percentage of leaders, especially in startups, professional groups and not-for-profits, pursue the holy grail of decision making by consensus. But it’s usually a bad idea, leading often to ...

Isn’t it tragic that so many prominent leaders rely on their intuition for their decision-making process? Gut reactions are seen as something almost magical, acquired either by hard-earned experience ...

Two years ago, I went to a 10-day silent retreat in Ladakh, India. The retreat center was akin to a monastery, located in a scenic panorama of the Himalayas, at an altitude of 12,000 feet. Insects ...

Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, Vol. 36, No. 2, Financial Capacity and Competency in an Aging America (Summer 2012), pp. 66-72 (7 pages) ...

Source: "Working dog" by Lisa Norwood/CC BY 2.0 It is often claimed by their human counterparts that dogs do not have the capacity to reason because they lack language capacity. Instead, they think in ...