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.
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.
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.
Historic breakthroughs, like value creation in business, tend to occur in crowded hours. Where something has appeared inert, there is, suddenly, a redefining change, a moment pointing toward a new truth.
As the dust settles, people and institutions adapt to a new order, perhaps an altered reality.
Last week was a time of such changes in transparency. Two earthquakes occurred.
The Pumpkin Plan is a terrific read for anyone who is, or is striving to be, an entrepreneur.
Mike Michalowicz has boiled down the some key insights that can help guide any entrepreneur, keeping their eyes on the essential.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been off to a great start—at least in terms of publicity.
A female CEO in the tech sector, representative of a new generation, a new mother to boot, Mayer has been seen as a “golden girl.”
Until now.
Great performances don’t just happen.
Recently I happened upon some criticism, tinged with disappointment, about President Kennedy. Some people are apparently astonished that he prepared for, indeed rehearsed, his outstanding televised press conference performances.
The disappointment arises from the belated recognition that Kennedy’s wit was not always spontaneous. Therefore, the thinking goes, it’s less impressive a feat. Somehow, preparation must be seen as a kind of “cheating.”
My reaction: Huh?
