Tom Finn writes: “This year, Jeff Robbins and I are writing together again, though slightly differently than while at Brown. In 1976, while I typed his paper due the next morning, Jeff and Andy Chaikin assisted in the background by having a cherry yogurt fight. Pre-word processors, the inevitable cherry plops on the typed pages were more disastrous than now; but Jeff promised to stay up all night re-typing the paper. He was last seen running across Wriston Quad, paper aloft, to deliver the paper to a professor’s Pembroke office. Reaching greater heights in 2024, Jeff has published his book, Notes From the Brink: A Collection of Columns about Policy at Home and Abroad, about which former Massachusetts Governor William Weld said, ‘You hardly know whether to laugh or cry and will likely wind up doing both.’ I published my second book, The Shift Effect: How Small Shifts Improve Leader Performance, a book for leaders based on evidence from 50 of my clients that small shifts in behavior or attitude can make big bottom-line impact, from implementing big systems to shoring up a cross-race relationship.” Contact Tom at [email protected].
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