21st Century Leadership is the category touching all aspects of Serve to Lead.
Condoms and Violence. credit | triplepundit.com
Triple Pundit has published an interesting post, proposing that condom companies seek to create value by dedicating resources to a global initiative to prevent or report violence against women.
This proposal reflects several 21st century leadership trends discussed in Serve to Lead.
Corporate consultant Steven Snyder has written a compelling book, Leadership and the Art of Struggle.
Snyder sets out to illuminate “how great leaders grow through challenge and adversity.”
He succeeds admirably.
Audio versions of Serve to Lead, Reagan on Leadership, and Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership will be released for the Holiday Season 2013-14.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
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Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
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Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
###
Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.
credit backfirealley.com
How often have you heard something like the following?
–I’m a doer. I don’t spend time on books or academic thinking or intellectual stuff. That’s just a distraction from getting things done.
–I’m a thinker. I don’t want to waste my time working with people who aren’t worth my time. I’ll leave that to public relations types and politicians.
–I’m a communicator. All the great ideas in the world don’t mean a thing if you can’t express them in a way that persuades others. It doesn’t just happen.
What about you?
As a leader, do you view yourself primarily as a thinker or talker or doer?
The Washington Post has editorialized in support of a promising “breakthrough” on fracking. Several national environmental groups have joined with major energy companies to establish an independent consortium to craft rules for shale development in the Appalachian region.
There are several noteworthy aspects to this announcement.
Corporate presentations consultant Jerry Weissman has written an outstanding book: Winning Strategies for Power Presentations.
Weissman’s book is a must-read for anyone aiming to achieve effectiveness in corporate or other presentations. His examples–from Cicero to venture capitalists to President Reagan and President Obama–are wide-ranging and invariably interesting and apt.
