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Humility, Inquiry and Empathy
I recently listened to an excellent podcast by Ezra Klein on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. He discusses with Robert Wright, the author of Nonzero – a newsletter that examines the assumptions that drive America’s foreign policy – our policy failures in Afghanistan over the past 20 years after an investment of 2 trillion dollars and deaths of over 200,000 people. Their discussion delves into the deep history of American involvement in Afghanistan, reveals the unacknowledged Read More
Emphatic or Empathetic
The underlying cause of many of our overlaying issues is our culturally reinforced tendency to be more emphatic than empathic. In this post, I explore this idea more deeply through asking some key questions.
Leadership Values A to Z
“The ecological freak is not questioning his share of the pie so much as he is questioning how we’re getting our flour. The problem isn’t technological; the problem is a matter of values.” —Denis Hayes, Earth Day’s first organizer One of the biggest outcomes (desired or undesired) of the COVID-19 pandemic has been to expose the fragility of our institutions and the failure of leadership. One of the biggest questions it has raised for me Read More