Natasha Josefowitz

Natasha Josefowitz

Dr. Natasha Josefowitz was a professor of management for 30 years and is an internationally-known business consultant and keynote speaker. For ten years she had her own weekly program on public radio and a monthly television segment.

Dr. Josefowitz is the best-selling author and award-winning poet of 21 business and poetry books. Her articles and poems have been published in over a hundred newspapers, journals and magazines.

SDJW thanks its May contributors

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)—San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers and photographers whose bylines appeared during the month of May on its website. They were: David Amos Laurie Baron Caren Besner Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Garry Fabian Abraham Foxman Donald H. Harrison Natasha Josefowitz Rabbi Ben Kamin Tony Klug Steve Kramer Lloyd […]

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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

Towards the new normal

The Seven States of Loss and Healing, Part 4: Towards the New Normal By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — This is part four of a five-part series, The Seven States of Loss and Healing. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after

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When a business should call in a consultant

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A management consultant, like a doctor, will diagnose the problem (illness), offer solutions (remedy), discuss the possible consequences of each alternative (the side effects), help to implement the decision (treatment), and observe closely to see that the suggestions are followed correctly to avoid unintended consequences (follow-up visits).

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Josefowitz to lecture on life after spouse’s death

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Well into her 80’s, San Diego Jewish World columnist Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D., has lived a full life. Some might argue she has lived enough for several lives. Josefowitz was born in Paris, France, in 1926. Her Russian- and Lithuanian-born parents moved to the United States in 1939, where she

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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego Calendar

Adrenaline addiction can hamper retirement

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I have my own theory about why some people retire happily and others get depressed or ill upon retirement, about why some people drive fast and like rollercoaster rides and horror movies, and others—like me—absolutely refuse to see anything violent and frightening and have always avoided scary

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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food

Flunking retirement

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I flunked retirement! This is evidence-based: just look at this column—I’m not sitting by the fireplace doing my knitting in my rocking chair. (Actually, it would be needlepoint in a recliner.) When you think of retirement, what images come to mind? For me it always was an

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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food