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Education And Leadership

“Education is concerned with the whole: whoever is educated knows how the world as a whole behaves. Education concerns the whole human being.”

–Josef Pieper

Who Needs Leadership Development?

“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think…

Sex and Leadership

“…and you shall see in him

The triple pillar of the world transformed

Into a strumpet’s fool.”

–Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 1

Chief HR Officer Dilemma — Priority On HR Technology Or Business Partnership?

Most Chief HR Officers (CHRO) spend a lot of time trying to determine exactly how to align the function to the company’s business in an effort to demonstrate HR’s value to it. This is especially…

Can Philosophy Make You A Better Leader?

It cannot be too often repeated that philosophy is everybody’s business. To be a human being is to be endowed with the proclivity to philosophise. To some degree we all engage in philosophical thought in the course of our daily lives.

Big Data Builds Stellar Leaders

What was your first team like? The first corporate team I was on was a team of leaders. Each leader had a different area of expertise. When expertise was needed the appropriate leader led and the rest of us followed. It was drilled into each of us… to be good leaders we…

Where Is The Leadership?

“Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. This is the new thing; the right not to be reasonable, the “reason of…

The Most Important Lesson A Leader Must Learn

Those who in fields Elysian would dwell. Do but extend the boundaries of hell.

–Michael Oakeshott in The Tower of Babel