Archive for Month: October 2024
Grace or Disgrace
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” Aristotle “I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” Anne Lamont Over a career spanning six decades, I have had the good fortune of working with hundreds of organizations. My favorite among all of them has been the Grand Read More
Grief and Grievance
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” Rumi Last week, in my post on myths and realities, I discussed the importance of making fact-based decisions and judgments. In this post, I want to explore the importance of understanding the feelings driving those decisions and judgments. Since these days it seems like Read More
American Myths and Realities
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell About 5 years ago, I wrote a post on leadership myths and realities based on a book I co-authored with Dr. Barry Cohen over 30 years ago. Since that time, misinformation and disinformation have spread like wildfire creating a pervasive smoke that obscures reality. Making accurate discriminations about what is true and what Read More
The Common Good
“It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.” Jimmy Carter In an individualistic and self-indulgent culture, I was wondering what it would take to increase commitment to the common good. A quick search turned up a book by Robert Reich, the previous secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, entitled The Common Good. Reich Read More
Change and Choice
In December of 2022, I attended a conference at the Harvard Executive Center in which I first learned about the stunning acceleration of AI by one of the leading computer science researchers in the world. At that time, Chat GPT had just been released. Since then, I started using AI to summarize the literature related to topics I was exploring. In that short amount of time, AI has evolved with mind-blowing speed. I’m going to Read More