To honor God, help others succeed, and provide excellent service became the culture in my office. To achieve these corporate objectives, so crucial to my wife and me, I created a devotional that we used every Monday morning before we started our workday to dedicate the company to God and to remind us of its core values. I just published it in Amazon, Coming Clean Devotional In the Workplace. 

My brother, you made it to the top, you went so high you could not stop. You climbed the ladder leading you nowhere; we were no longer together building castles in the air.

How did it happen, and why such a desire to die at the age of twenty-one years old?  Especially having everything most human beings dreamed of having and believing those things would make them happy.  I never forgot my second day in Miami, when my cousin Domingo came to visit us in a gorgeous candy-apple red GTO with a white leather interior. 

November 1, 2019 Reflection on J.K. Rowling's Commencement Address to Harvard June 5, 2008. Jorge L. Valdés, Ph.D. J.K. Rowling delivered the Commencement Address: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination at Harvard University on June 5, 2008.  The full title of this talk is "The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination." I urge everyone to read it. Near the end of her address she says:  "If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the…

November 4, 2019 I love Religion because of Jesus Jorge L. Valdés, Ph.D.    I recently came across a YouTube video, "Why I hate Religions, but love Jesus," by Jefferson Bethke, which was made back in the year 2002. Not surprisingly, this video viewed over 34 million times. I mention this and recommend people see it because it highlights a lot of what the mindset of our time is. Allow me to say that I applaud Mr. Bethke for his love for Jesus and his willingness to engage in a very transparent and bold manner.  Mr. Bethke, in a poetic style, raps claims about Jesus,…

October 1, 2019   October 1, 2019 "Is there such a thing as Business Ethics any Longer." Jorge L. Valdes, Ph.D. As I look back on my life and compare the world when I was in my twentieth, to the world of today where I am in my sixtieths, I have seen a tremendous difference from a world where your word was supposed to be your bond, to a world where we no longer believe that there is an absolute truth, that truth is ever-changing and is relative to the moment. We look at companies profiting from the hard work of Americans who no longer…