Blog & Articles

Click here to read the article “At Odds: Connecting Dots Between Rutgers, Yahoo Ban, Teacher Scandal, and Politics” by Ron Fournier, quoting Robert E. Hall. Article originally appeared on nationaljournal.com, April 5 2013.

Atlanta teachers are accused of cheating. Yahoo bans telecommuting. A Rutgers basketball coach hurls balls and epithets at his players. Meanwhile, in Washington, the president and House Republicans can’t or won’t bridge their differences and regain the trust of voters.

These seemingly disparate strands have in common a single, sobering [...]

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When you gather up all the numbers and make an index out of them – let’s call it the Flight from Relationships Index (FFR Index) – the trend becomes clear and sobering.   Remember that old Simon and Garfunkel song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”?  The FFR Index might be called the 16 ways we have left our relationships.

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“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming, statistician, quality guru

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Big data helped re-elect a President, find Osama bin Laden, and contributed to the melt-down of our financial system. We are in the midst of a data revolution where social media introduces new terms like Arab Spring, Facebook Depression and Twitter anxiety that reflect a new reality: big data is changing the social and relationship fabric of [...]

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Sign up now to see Robert Hall speak at socialmediabreakfastdallas.com and see what he has to say about relationships being our single most valuable resource and how technology is effecting us, April 25, 2013.

Be more intentional, build community and establish relationship leadership and succeed at home, at work, in politics, and in faith.

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The handsome, articulate young man sitting across from me looked hollow and slightly hopeless as he recounted that four years ago, everything looked great for him and his young bride. He had a good job with a top financial organization and was working on a master’s degree when cutbacks left him unemployed. Now four year later and still jobless, he confided that he and his wife are near divorce, mental health issues have surfaced, and isolation especially from work and [...]

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Click here to read the article “Did Yahoo Blow It?” by Louis Bedigian, quoting Robert E. Hall. Article originally appeared on benzinga.com, March 2013.

When Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) CEO Marissa Mayer sent out a memo to inform employees that they will no longer be allowed to work from home, she likely expected to receive a few complaints. She had no idea it would set off an Internet firestorm.

Virtually every mainstream publication has covered the story — many have done so multiple times. [...]

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St. Valentine was a third-century priest martyred for marrying soldiers at a time when Roman Emperor Claudius II had decreed single men made better fighters. Other lore suggests St. Valentine was killed for attempting to help Christians escape Roman prisons where they were tortured. Regardless of its exact roots, Valentine’s Day honors loving relationships — romantic, platonic, familial or collegial.

About those loving relationships … Even though our Valentine’s Day expressions keep growing — more than 150 million Valentine cards will [...]

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One month later, the tragedy at Sandy Hook has caused us to reflect on what kind of society we have become. Increasingly it feels like we have become a land of strangers and estrangement that has lost our relational glue. The metrics of our growing relationship fight and flight are excruciating: over the past few decades divorce is up 50 percent, marriage is down 50 percent, single-parent children born to those under 30 are the new normal hovering at 50 percent in 2012, [...]

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Click here to read the article “Writer in residence: Robert E. Hall” by Monica S. Nagy, on Robert E. Hall’s new book This Land of Strangers. Article originally appeared in Advocate Magazine, Far North Dallas edition, February 2013.

Through his work volunteering with the inner-city homeless, former businessman Robert E. Hall had an epiphany. “I found that most of the families I coached and mentored, most often the straw that broke the camel’s back and resulted in their homelessness was the severing of a [...]

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The untold story of 2012 is how “not” became the new relationship normal — not married, not a parent, not a close friend, not a loyal customer, not a committed employee, not a Democrat nor Republican and not affiliated with organized religion. This flight from relationship flies in the face of a society that says individual relationships matter most, and where many organizations attempt to brand themselves as “relationship” focused. We speak in the poetry of relationships — home, family, [...]

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