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Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
November 8th, 2008
April 17th, 2008
This week I returned from a memorial service for my first collaborator in arts policy research, and my second PhD advisee, to find that my most recent coauthor, on biofuels and global warming, had taken his life. It’s been a tough week, as both were friends, optimal colleagues, much too young, and respectively central to [...]
March 7th, 2008
Susan Rice, the Bulworth of campaign advisers.
February 16th, 2008
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform fiddles while Washington burns.
May 18th, 2007
Category: Leadership, Management
A common parable about leadership goes as follows:
Halfway through the construction of the cathedral, the architect died. The bishop, not knowing what to do, went out to walk through the stoneyard, and found a man hammering on a chisel. “Bless you, my son. What are you making?”
“About twelve centimes a day, your [...]
April 13th, 2007
Category: Leadership
After a respectful moment of sympathy for Gov. Corzine’s pain, and his family’s:
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and another to wish him a full recovery:
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what the hell is the matter with him? How could the chief executive of a state routinely put the chief executive of his state, elected by and responsible to the voters to discharge his duties [...]
January 3rd, 2007
Category: Leadership
John Shalikashvili seems unashamed to report that his version of leadership is to follow his troops wherever they want to go, pandering to bigotry and ignorance along the way. Back in 1993, he didn’t want gays in the military because he thought the other soldiers wouldn’t like them, but now that polling indicates it’s [...]
