Friday, October 11, 2002

categories: Culture, Biz, Politics Drucker on Misleadership What distinguishes the leader from the misleader are his goals. Whether the compromise he makes with the constraints of reality -- which may involve political, economic, financial or people problems -- are compatible with his mission and goals or lead away from them determines whether he is an effective leader. And whether he holds fast to a few basic standards (exemplifying them in his own conduct) or whether "standards" for him are what he can get away with, determines whether the leader has followers or only hypocritical time-servers. The second requirement is that the leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. Effective leaders are rarely "permissive." But when things go wrong -- and they always do -- they do not blame others. If Winston Churchill is an example of leadership through clearly defining mission and goals, Gen. George Marshall, America's chief of staff in World War II, is an example of leadership through responsibility. Harry Truman's folksy "The buck stops here" is still as good a definition as any.   10:15:11 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Politics, War, World America's great misleader Bush's arguments strain the limits of plausibility to justify war on Iraq, and this, says Simon Tisdall, means regime change is imperative - in Washington iSay - I always find it useful reading non-US news and weblogs to get the international P.O.V. But why is the internet only partly enabled? We could and should be having conversations on these P.O.V.'s. But what technology to use? Newsgroups = Flames, high noise. IM = high noise, try to follow a conversation when all are 'talking'. email = time shifted, private and not threaded, try to follow who said what in an email. Message boards = When moderated, a good solution. Weblogs = another good solution some implementations better, more akin to moderated message boards.   9:20:33 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Culture, Politics, War, World Jimmy Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize Yahoo Headlines - Former US President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human ... Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Jimmy Carter Voice of America Jimmy Carter: president, peacemaker, peanut farmer CNN Canada.com - Norway Post - Toronto Star - Times of India - and 125 related » Google US News   8:53:35 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Financial, Biz, Politics Is anybody concerned about the economy? e.thePeople (Democracy is a conversation) asks the question and receives replies from "just folks".   5:05:59 AM  Google It!  comment