leadership
-
Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR
As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very… Continue reading
-
Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker
We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would… Continue reading
-
Daodejing 27
#27* The one who masters walking leaves no footprints. The one who masters speaking makes no slips of the tongue. The one who masters counting needs no tally tools to count. The one who masters shutting the door needs no… Continue reading
-
It is a challenge, not only for the leader but for anyone of us trying to work through the loving struggle of being with others. Related articles Familiarity Breeds Contempt (amuseless.wordpress.com) Vulnerability: Bane or Blessing? (whisperbreath.wordpress.com) 11 Ways To Decrease… Continue reading
-
Why You’re Not A Leader – Forbes
Ten items to help identify the leader from the manager. Pretty helpful. Everybody thinks they’re a leader – most are far from it. The harsh reality is that we live in a world awash with wannabe leaders. As much as… Continue reading
-
ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson
Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western… Continue reading
-
Economist Debates: Business education: Statements
A very interesting debate over at the Economist online. Very much worth the read for those who are wondering about what is going on in the halls of graduate business education. Our professors actually agree on some fundamental things. Both,… Continue reading
-
The end of the university « Andrew Taggart
Nice meditation on a favorite subject of mine: where exactly higher education may be going in the globalized Society of Control. Taggart asks some good questions and is moving toward an intriguing elucidation: …any serious threat to the status quo… Continue reading
-
A Boon of Dandelions 4
Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that… Continue reading
-
Becoming Empassioned
Good piece. Opening ourselves up to the possibility of this Beautiful Order, we become conduits, energized by the dynamic force of the Encompassing Good. Letting-go of worry or fretfulness or obsession, we need not follow bliss as the blissful will… Continue reading
-
Textimony 20120505
Our highest adaptation is that we need not be merely adaptive. Vital reason can detach from the drive to exist & we can flourish in LIBERTY. Continue reading
CALL ME MAGGIE 