Spider Resilience: What We Can Learn about Getting Back Up from a Garden Spider

Leadership Lessons from the Garden

June 19, 2023

By Jocelyn Little

Spiders. Many people do not like them. I do not like them. I have a slight phobia of spiders ever since I had a large spider jump down my shirt in high school as I tried to catch grasshoppers for my pet chameleon. These days, my policy on spiders is...

10 Life Lessons I Learned in 2022

By Jocelyn Little

Another year has come and gone. Time seems to be passing me by faster each year. As I reminisce of the past, loving memories bring a warm smile to my heart. Year by year, we go about our days as we always do; we face our challenges and adversity, we celebrate our wins and special occasions, and we prepare for another year to begin. If we...

By George Belsky 

Some years ago a close friend and West Point classmate asked me for some hip-pocket leadership training advice for his daughter. She was a West Point cadet at that time and leading new cadets through their entry level training. For those unfamiliar with the term, “hip-pocket training” is the military term for impromptu training leaders provide when they are...