Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir, River House Press, 2013
This memoir highlights some personal and significant learning experiences over the past seventy years, lifting these moments from each decade beginning in the 1940’s. From World War II right up through the most recent decade, I describe some of the experiences that have influenced, shaped and changed me. As an educator devoted to the pursuit
0Shifting Models in Leadership Development
Leadership development has most often been based on an externalized approach. People take courses or go to workshops that instruct them on the desirable characteristics, or qualities, of leaders and how they should act. Moreover, training has relied to some extent on old assumptions about leadership. In particular, the “heroic” approach to leadership (i.e., the
0Two Legendary Stories for Our Time
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He
0BIG IDEA, LITTLE APPLICATION
Ted Mitchell, CEO of New Schools Venture Fund, which has raised $3.4 billion over the past decade for entrepreneurs in education, has a big idea. His big idea is to allow kids to progress at their own pace, accumulate course credit as they master their work, not as they put in required time. Ted says
0Common Vision, Common Purpose, Common Goal
Honest homeless man’s fund over $91K via crowd funding. http://news.yahoo.com/fund-set-honest-homeless-man-raises-91k-060359331.html The story touched enough people that by now it’s probably over $100K. The point here is not his honesty nor the money but what the guy who set up the fund said that I have been “preaching” for over 50 years. Ethan Whittington, who started
0Pursuing Happiness: Is GNH of any real value?
Is GNH useful? Probably not, but on a personal level, I believe it is immensely valuable. I came across the following brief article this past Saturday in the Lex Column of the weekend edition of FT (Financial Times) and share it for your own musing. See if you can read between the lines for the
0Video Games and Overcoming Resistance to Kill
Various media sources have been giving a lot of attention recently to the role of violence in video games and its effect on the players. The two basic positions are that either the worst of these games have an undesirable and negative effect on the player or that no, the players can separate fantasy from
0BLOG # 100 – The Spirit of Effective Leadership
I started this blog two years ago and without any prescribed schedule, I wrote something when the spirit moved me. In honor of the one-hundredth blog, I reviewed some of the earlier ones and this is an excerpt from the second one that I wrote, September 3, 2011. I believe the “spirit” of the outstanding
0BACK TO SCHOOL
Why do we say that you are going “back” to school? We know generally that it means returning, often to something familiar, going “back” somewhere and that is certainly one of the meanings when using the word “back” as an adverb. However, it also implies a past condition or situation and although we might hope
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