Some time ago I wrote a short piece called “No Virtue in Being Busy.” My point was to say that I believe there is very little value in how busy we appear to be because our calendars and schedules are full to overflowing. A follow up article published here recently was called “The Appearance of
The Santa Fe Leadership Center set out recently to explore some of the dynamics of being a new head of an independent, private school, partly in preparation for one of our Seminars and partly to find out what people in these positions were experiencing that we might be able to address in a thoughtful, systematic
James Surowiecki, writing in the January 27 issue of The New Yorker entitled his article “The Cult of Overwork.” He makes the point by noting that thirty years ago, the best paid workers in the U.S. were much less likely to work long days than low-paid workers were. That, of course, has all changed and
I wrote the following piece some five years ago but when I saw that the app of the day (2/21/13) was Gun Bros 2, I thought it might be time to re-issue it. The debate and conversations about gun control and our culture of violence continues to put people on opposite sides of the issues
We are currently in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and as lifelong learners committed to postponing dementia for a few more years, we are taking Spanish lessons at Warren Hardy’s Escuela at # 6 San Rafael. It’s a great neighborhood although we are camped about 2 miles north in the country.Warren offered a lecture this
–> Schools, organizations, kids and the future When schools began to be compulsory, the model was, following the industrial revolution, to make little workers of the students. Like their fathers, and later their mothers during wartime especially, in the factories, they were to follow instructions, work diligently at whatever was assigned as their task –
