Archive for March 2018
Empowered by Human Leaders
Are these attributes the “norm” for leadership (at work): not speaking your mind freely, openly, clearly, respectfully AND disagree with others? suppressing all of your knowledge and skills in meetings out of concern of reactions from that some-one? equating people saying things with people actually getting things accomplished? seeking consensus through groupthink, when better, faster,…
Read MoreDisruption
Leadership cannot be granted, inherited, or learned from a book or class… it must be actively earned in full view while overcoming challenges. Let’s challenge my above assertion for a moment. To grant… to give. How can something so intangible and substantive as leadership be given to someone. If you assume the grantor is legitimately…
Read MoreChaos
If the technology prognosticators and numerous genius leaders are correct, humanity is doomed. As the secretive google “brain” project, headed by utopian futurist Ray Kurzweil and a bevy of like-minded believers in the singularity “progresses”, humans will become extinct (absorbed, or “evolved” to use their terms into machines). Ray’s forecasted date for the singularity is 2045. Well, there’s…
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