Tag: New York
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#54: UNGA 80
In September 2023, my coworkers and I experienced our first United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). To those unfamiliar with the foreign affairs conference that takes place annually in New York City, I wrote in Blog #27 about the opportunity I was given to explain the event to a curious young man and his family while…
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#34: Pretzels and Beer
Continued from Blog #33: Munich Security Conference Hallway reputation. Personal brand. Leadership shadow. Regardless of the buzzwords we use to describe the way others think about us in the workplace, a bad reputation can be hard to shake. The concept isn’t exclusive to humans, either. Amsterdam banned the smoking of cannabis in public in an…
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#27: UNGA 78
Note: The events described below took place prior to the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack in Israel and the ensuing actions of representatives at the United Nations Security Council meetings which have been the subject of much criticism. Nearly 200 flags stood waving in the cool September breeze coming off the East River which separates…
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#24: Tunnel to Towers
September 11th, 2001. FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s shift on the elite Squad 1 in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood had ended earlier that morning. He was looking forward to a day off, so much so that he was already on the way to the links to play golf with his brothers. That outing was interrupted by…
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