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Good, Line of Sight, and the Arroyos of Politics
We all are programmed to respond to line of sight. For example, I am on a hike in the high deserts of New Mexico and I see the destination structure flickering in the heat in the distance. I know that… Continue reading
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Good, Real Life, Fellowship and the Games of Crisis
This writer can measure the sheer exhaustion of people with the current day crisis of leadership by how readers respond the the titles of this column. I would have to say that there is a limit being reached in terms… Continue reading
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Good, Nightmares and the Death Penalty
It defies my comprehension how people can so passionately support the death penalty. A woman with reported to be suffering from bi-polar, brain injury, child abuse is about to be executed in Tennessee. She has the unholy distinction of being… Continue reading
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Good and the Problem of being a “For-Againster”
This is about either creating your way out of trouble or lounging in the passive position of simply being for-against. Creativity requires thought, courage, energy and concentration. Being For-Againster only requires you oppose what the others are for. Their “for” automatically becomes your… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Good, and the Ease of Taking lives Verses the Cost of Saving Lives.
The low cost ease of taking a life with a bullet serves to contrast the high cost and hard work of saving that same life in the ER. The ease and cost of building an inexpensive, life stealing, destructive bombs… Continue reading
