You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller Constructive Failure In a December 2014 interview with Esquire, Micah White, one of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) founders said, “My thinking is moving away from […]
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams, Historian Caring School Community Educators absolutely lead students to value others in the course of their every day. However, this isn’t usually the first lens, but a byproduct of curriculum and context. As educators, our lesson […]
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security. Henry Kissinger The Leaders We Promote Twenty years ago, Jean-Paul Habimana was an aide to senior government leaders of Rwanda. As a soldier, he risked his life for his brothers-in-arms and for the people […]
Knowing and Influencing In contrast to President Reagan’s head-nod to Mobutu, or President Arthur’s bet on Leopold, I am certain of Jean-Paul Habimana’s character because I know him. We haven’t merely done business together or been in meetings to discuss policies and programs, which is typically the basis of such […]
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy… your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products… Short-term profits should be allied with an increase in the long-term value of a company. Jack Welch […]
Today we live on three secluded acres where we can barely see our neighbors through distant trees. After two years, we have yet to even meet most of them. This is a place where our kids are free to roam in the woods and we’re not worried about what might […]
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. Aubrey de Grey, Author of Ending Aging Doctors serve. They work to […]
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect when it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New periods of pain. Add fear to pain and this is the depth […]
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Jonathan Gottschall, Author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Earlier this week, my daughter proclaimed she was going to write a book of […]
