Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Have you ever trusted someone to do what they said they would… only to discover that, when it mattered most, they didn’t? Now ask yourself the same question about an organization. When I was in elementary school, one of my teachers insisted on reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books to our class every afternoon…
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Some films entertain us for two hours. Others quietly measure the passage of our lives. There are very few film franchises that can honestly claim they have accompanied an entire generation from childhood into parenthood, but Toy Story is one of them. I still remember watching the original Toy Story in the 1990s, and I…
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Given enough time something will eventually go wrong. For years I have been fascinated by science fiction stories in which someone discovers a way to send a message into the future. Those stories usually ask the same question. If you could send messages to people who have not yet been born what would you say?…
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Have you ever had someone suddenly disappear from an organization? I first saw it happen in the 1990s when I began working in the Research and Accountability Department of the Houston Independent School District after graduate school. It happened more than once. Each time it was a shock. One day a colleague was there. The…
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I received a shocking Father’s Day present today, and it carries a lesson for all of us about authority. It came in the form of a phone call informing me that my 18-year-old daughter had been abandoned at the Toledo train station after midnight by her boss, Pastor Joe Ottinger, Director of Camp Mohaven and…
Cloaking Inequity 
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