Joseph DiCenso

  • Four Questions

    Four Questions

    In preparing for a recent piece of work with a small business going through a major transition and confronting deep interpersonal conflicts, these four questions came to me as potentially useful.  Since then, I have spent some time honing them and my thinking about them as a tool. I like the simplicity of the questions…

  • Getting Your Bearings Post Lay-Off

    Getting Your Bearings Post Lay-Off

    In 1988 my father was the general manager of a regional wholesale musical instrument company he’d worked for, for 20 years. In his early 40s, with his two oldest in college, he was “let go.” The company offered him a position in New York. Settled outside of Boston, my father refused to uproot and was…