Development advice for the adaptive leader: Successful leaders find ways to adapt to any challenge, no matter how they are built. They do this by applying the R2 principle: Rethink, then React. Human beings have amazing adaptive capabilities, most of the constraints we face are self-imposed by the way we think or feel. There are common patterns of thinking and feeling that stop us from doing what is effective. By identifying these patterns and getting an opportunity to re-think (feel) them, we can see the world differently. By changing that perspective, we can then re-act differently, more...

" I HAVE known many instances of mixed marriages," said a silvery-haired old gentlewoman, with a wistful look in her still fine eyes, "and of all the number I can recall but three that turned out well." It is not difficult to see that in so intimate a relation as marriage a oneness in religion, that highest of all concerns, is absolutely indispensable to the perfect union. "Theoretically we all object to mixed marriages," answered Mrs. Gibson, a matron whose three daughters had married out of the Church; "but practically we realize that circumstances make them necessary. The Church itself...