(Leadership Comes from All Directions) James MacGregor Burns (1978) began a conversation about ‘transformative’ versus ‘transactional’ leadership forty-three years ago that retains considerable traction. He defined what leadership ‘does’ as follows: In this, Burns took the discussion of leadership beyond the ‘traits’ of a leader to arguably the heart of the matter… contingencies in context […]
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” “Not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great […]
Sharing his name with the blessing of family Caleb, a partner-in-learning of ours for many years, passed away unexpectedly yesterday. There’s a big hole in our hearts today. Many of the humans who teach us important things come to that role without assignment or title. Caleb was one of those people. We got to know […]
Everything is always up for grabs…Ram Dass Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.Mohandas K. Gandhi There is a tendency for living things to join up, establish linkages, live inside each other, return to earlier arrangements, get alongwherever possible. This is the way […]
You don’t miss your water, ‘til the well runs dry -William Bell- You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone -Joni Mitchell- Round about age fifty, everybody in my family with patrilineal (Powsner) DNA enters the world of progressive higher frequency hearing loss. At first, the progression is so incremental as to be insidious. […]
Today is Independence Day. Porches are draped with bunting and flags are flying. 240 years and 2 days ago the Second Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain largely as a protest to taxation without representation. The group behavior of declaration was the culmination of a succession of setting events that built a strong motivating […]
