Neal Gabler, in a New York Times article, claimed, “ideas just aren’t what they used to be. Once upon a time, they could ignite fires of debate, stimulate other thoughts, incite revolutions and fundamentally change the ways we look at and think about the world.” Grabler also argued that the cause of the reduction in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Development of Self’
Recoiling Against Ideas
Posted in Change, Life, Progress, tagged Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, human spirit, Progress on August 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Essence of Leadership
Posted in Leadership, Relationships, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, partnership, relationships on July 31, 2011 | 8 Comments »
What is the nature of the leadership theories that have been developed by business-minded academics that have advanced the body of knowledge and informed leader preparation and practice? It appears that to a great extent the theories have been attempts to not just offer descriptive but also prescriptive knowledge of leading and leadership.
Privatize Society
Posted in Economy, Life, Progress, Quality, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, human spirit, Progress, Quality, relationships on July 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Just how valid is the idea that privatization of society’s services to its citizens ensures the highest quality of service to people in society? Let’s critically analyze by understanding the precepts of the private economic enterprise.
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #26
Posted in Leadership, Relationships, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, management, partnership, relationships on June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Bing Gordon, partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, claimed in a New York Times interview “that people want leaders who give them confidence. In a start-up company or in a creative process, there’s turmoil. Every day feels like you’re looking into the maw of a black hole, and you want [...]
Why Educate
Posted in Education, Life, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, human spirit, Learning on June 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Why educate? For cognitive development! We see ourselves as intelligent beings and therefore we see the need to use our intellect to acquire knowledge in support of cognitive development. Operationally education involves disseminating facts from within various subjects/disciplines and then testing for retention and recall, with the percent passing a test being the indicator of [...]
Total Ecology Economics
Posted in Change, Economy, Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Systems Thinking on June 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Because economic theory and practice touches much of life in society, its practice has far-reaching implications. In a recent New York Times OP-ED article Thomas Friedman describes the effects of our consumer-driven growth model of economics upon our future.
Corporate Overlords
Posted in Economy, Life, Morality/Ethics, Progress, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, Ethical Principles, human spirit, Moral Values, Progress, Systems Thinking on May 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The testimony of the CEOs from America’s five leading oil companies before congress revealed their belief that the unit of survival is (solely) their organization. That is, the center of the universe is (literally) their corporation and industry and correspondingly that their importance both personally and corporately must not be questioned—they stand above it all.
Replace Performance Reviews with Leadership for Quality
Posted in Leadership, Management, Quality, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, Quality, relationships, Statistical Thinking, Variation on May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A recent issue of Knowledge@Wharton indicates, that while 91% of companies worldwide have performance appraisals only 35% to 40% do performance reviews well. The question remains, what does doing them well mean? What are the criteria for the performance of performance reviews? Can performance reviews (as we’ve come to know and love them) really be [...]
Is This the Way We Want to Roll?
Posted in Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Change, Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Economy, Education, human spirit, Learning, Moral Values, Progress on April 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Like all other animals we are equipped with the capacity for sight smell taste touch and hearing as ways of sensing the immediate environment. So as long as danger and opportunity are within arms’ reach, earshot, in line of sight or so close we could taste them we can react to them quite well.
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #23
Posted in Leadership, Management, organizational design, Relationships, tagged Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, organizational design, partnership, relationships, Systems Thinking on April 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
With technology begetting more technology, innovation appears to be increasing at an increasing rate. Consequently in many industries, if a business is not cutting edge, it may not be too long before it fails to make the cut. Accordingly business managers/leaders have a corresponding need to foster creativity within the organization toward realizing more innovation [...]
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