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Good and Out of Chaos . . . War
This is the time for organizational pundits to stop praising the opportunities of chaos and disorder just to liven up another leadership training session. The idea of opportunity in chaos is solid, but the opportunities are far more often devastating and destructive than helpful. Chaos is a force without a partner. Chaos doesn’t need you,…
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Words Better than Mine: Shattered Leadership and In Praise of Coldness; Poet Jane Hirshfield
A genius poet can wrap up an entire era in a few lines, and instruct a whole nation in a single stanza. Excerpted from a poem entitled In Praise of Coldness by Jane Hirshfield . . . Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow pretend to be fearless. In happiness tremble.”…
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Good, No Center No Power and the Lethal Game of Chicken
If you are reading the news critically and from a range of sources you will see there is no political good news. We are in a slow motion game of chicken with ourselves. “Chicken” is the game where two parties cruise down the highway from opposite directions at lethal speed and on the same lane. …
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Good, “My Own Morality” and the Morality of Plurality
Our elected President has declared when asked about the limits to his power that his limits were “my own morality”. Perhaps clever, but it turned out to be an accidental statement of truth rare as that may be from that source. The flaw of course is that one person does not make a morality. Morality…
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Good, Dark Money and the Vampires of Future
The current Administration’s unprecedented orgy of debt accumulation, assault on the value of the dollar, and obsession with bitcoin should not strike anyone as subtle. We, in the this generation, have grown up with the dollar as the globe’s benchmark currency. In the past the fiscal crises of the United States we have triggered a…
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Good, the American Heart, and True Greatness:
This is Sunday so this day this writer will say good things about a good person. Dolly Parton was not at the center of my own life and heart across her life time, but I was always fascinated by my own grudging respect for her talent, voice, generosity, courage and complete unapologetic uniqueness. Until she…
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Good and Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario is . . . .
The Executive Order is not a birch paddle one can use to spank Nations. Now our volatile President thinks he can change the names of our beloved Great Lakes with a piece of paper because he is miffed. Maybe if climate change grinds on he will change the name of Planet Earth itself to Planet…
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Good, Immigration and the Ending of Innocence in America
In case you are not paying attention, the immigration arrests have morphed into a kind of crude harvest machine seemingly lacking any legal ground and based on some other criteria than law. Is it race, color, accent? We have no idea. The New York Times reports arrests of people married to US citizens, people with…
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Good, Greatness, Grandiosity, and Insulting the Greatest Generation.
To call the modern clickity-click digital paralyzing of economies and small businesses across the globe an equivalent to WWII D day on Normandy beaches is an insult to the soldiers, leaders, and American citizens who pulled off one of the greatest military defensive moves in world history. The contemporary politicians who use this comparison to…
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Good and Trusting the Broken Word
The world is beginning to grasp that there is no “deal” with the United States because this administration has broken international trust and America is no longer perceived as a reliable partner for trade or national security. Lessons children learn in grade school are being brought home on an international scale to adults who should…
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