There is a sweet disposition that wants justice to arise from good intentions and to be executed in a world full of sweetness and harmony. The yearning is for a justice that is never opposed. The difficulty of establishing justice, however, is that people are not just. They only want justice when they are not […]
Some people spend too much time thinking about their goals, their dreams, their visions, etc. Other people spend too much time thinking about their obstacles, their problems, their immediate activities. I believe we should spend enough time thinking about our goals to figure out what they are, to say, “this is what we should do
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I said yesterday that today I would address the matter of discordance. And now I have. But like anybody anywhere, I can’t always do what I intend on a given day. I used to think that leaders had more control of their time than non-leaders. What an uninformed thought. I want everybody to attend every
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This morning an article was posted on the website, Axios, pointing out that CEO’s from across the nation are meeting with the White House and “in private conversations and pleas to President Trump, are warning of economic catastrophe if American doesn’t begin planning for a phased return to work as soon as May.” One line
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Reflections on leadership in school, business, and home
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“My job really was to find my successors. I found them, they are there; their job is to find their successors. So there must be this continuous renewal of talented, dedicated, honest, able people who will do things not for themselves but for their people and for their country. If they can do that, they
As I have worked with and observed schools over the past twenty years, I have become ever more concerned about the degree to which the infinite and immortal souls of the children who attend them are treated as tertiary matters (maybe, at a good school, secondary) by the school leadership. What keeps leaders up at
