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Lead Yourself First
“Our mission is to plant ourselves at…a different, sometimes lonely place, the place of truth-telling, about your own soul first of all and its condition, the place of resistance and defiance, the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be, …
What Emerson, Captain Willard, and William Deresiewicz Say about Leadership
“he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions” – Emerson In October 2009, the Yale English professor, author, and literary critic William Deresiewicz delivered a …
The Multitasking Myth
In 1959, Peter Drucker wrote about “knowledge workers”, in his book The Landmarks of Tomorrow. In 2018, there is still no universally agreed upon definition for the term knowledge worker. However, examples of knowledge workers are software engineers, project managers, physicians, engineers, scientists, accountants, lawyers, and academics, all workers whose jobs require non-routine …
Tribe, Flow, and Power in Transition
Good morning, Team Room – For my friends, family, brothers, sisters, colleagues, and teammates. For six years, Bridget and I have experienced our own transition from national service into the private sector, and have worked with two outstanding military transition organizations in serving others doing the same. It’s a topic of both interest and personal …
Tribe, by Sebastian Junger (a summary and review)
I was just at a two-day planning session with the team at Everfi in Washington DC helping to inform the construction of an anti-bullying course to be called, Honor Code. The course will be deployed to thousands of schools across the United States and Canada sometime in 2018. It’s an …