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Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodThe Foundations of the Earth - Part 2“Behold, I am of small account.” Job, Hebrew prophet
We can change the world. We can right Injustices. We can listen to what our patients are saying with their stories, root out and heal their ailments while helping them see the fullness of life beyond their own. We can create businesses that will outlast themselves through their employees, suppliers, customers and community. We can nurture that damaged and fearful child to a life full of confidence and joy. We can teach our students to share simply because their classmate is valuable regardless of the favor he might or m...2020-04-2709 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodThe Foundations of the Earth - Part 1“Behold, I am of small account.” Job, Hebrew prophet
We can change the world. We can right Injustices. We can listen to what our patients are saying with their stories, root out and heal their ailments while helping them see the fullness of life beyond their own. We can create businesses that will outlast themselves through their employees, suppliers, customers and community. We can nurture that damaged and fearful child to a life full of confidence and joy. We can teach our students to share simply because their classmate is valuable regardless of the favor he might or m...2020-04-2707 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodAddicted to Stories - Part 2“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Our imaginations have been captured by the many stories we see and hear on a daily basis. We imagine ourselves in Script's song, on our way to the Hall of Fame. We imagine ourselves as Tom Brady, married to a supermodel and winning the Superbowl. We hope to experience the wealth and power promised by The Secret or the meaning and fulf...2020-04-2706 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodAddicted to Stories - Part 1“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Our imaginations have been captured by the many stories we see and hear on a daily basis. We imagine ourselves in Script's song, on our way to the Hall of Fame. We imagine ourselves as Tom Brady, married to a supermodel and winning the Superbowl. We hope to experience the wealth and power promised by The Secret or the meaning and fulf...2020-04-2705 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodExtending Life - Part 2“The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.” Aubrey de Grey, author of Ending Aging
Encouraging the patient to value life above all else will leave her in pain, likely alone, and most certainly afraid. Doctors help slow life’s deterioration. That’s not what we patients need, nor is it what Hippocrates intended with his oath. What we need is a foundation such that in the face of...2020-04-2709 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodExtending Life - Part 1“The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.” Aubrey de Grey, author of Ending Aging
Encouraging the patient to value life above all else will leave her in pain, likely alone, and most certainly afraid. Doctors help slow life’s deterioration. That’s not what we patients need, nor is it what Hippocrates intended with his oath. What we need is a foundation such that in the face of...2020-04-2704 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodMore than Quarterly Earnings - Part 2Foster and Kaplan’s 2001 book, Creative Destruction, showed over the previous 50 years, the life expectancy of firms in the Fortune 500 had declined from 75 to 15 years. Those firms that do remain have only done so by adapting so drastically that they barely resemble the firms they were 15 years prior. General Electric has been around for 123 years. By 2001, the financial arm of GE accounted for 41% of its profits. Under twenty years of Jack Welch’s leadership, the behemoth of industrial manufacturing had become almost as much a financial institution as a manufacturing concern. Because of the 2008 financial crisis and GE's Lehman Brot...2020-04-2706 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodMore than Quarterly Earnings - Part 1“On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy… your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products… Short-term profits should be allied with an increase in the long-term value of a company.” Jack Welch, Former CEO, General Electric
A business leader interested in changing the world develops a vision like “organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful.” She hires people with shared values. Her occupation is story-teller for this business undergirded by its values, helping create habits of beha...2020-04-2706 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodNot Winning Hearts and Minds - Part 2“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Henry Kissinger
It is not surprising that with all the commitment of resources to this work, the United States regularly fails miserably at identifying and supporting effective leaders around the world. Nowhere is this failure starker than in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Belgian government continued to subjugate the Belgian Congo until 1960. The United States inserted itself into the independence movement in the Congo in 1960 to back a junior Congolese Army Officer who would become President. To facilitate this...2020-04-2704 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodNot Winning Hearts and Minds - Part 1“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Henry Kissinger
It is not surprising that with all the commitment of resources to this work, the United States regularly fails miserably at identifying and supporting effective leaders around the world. Nowhere is this failure starker than in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Belgian government continued to subjugate the Belgian Congo until 1960. The United States inserted itself into the independence movement in the Congo in 1960 to back a junior Congolese Army Officer who would become President. To facilitate this...2020-04-2705 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodTeaching - More than the Golden Rule“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams, historian and intellectual, descendant of two US Presidents
History from the most cynical perspective is a cycle of the rise and fall of societies, from Detroit to Rome, represented by shifts in who wields power. Diffusing knowledge for the sake of empowering only facilitates this ongoing dynamic even if takes centuries for some of the powerful to fall and others to rise. Educators truly changing the world is breaking this cycle by teaching Harvard College students and kids at Bessie Buker Elementary that the...2020-04-2708 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodAngry Activists Don't Change Anything - Part 2In a December 2014 interview with Esquire, Micah White, one of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) founders said, “My thinking is moving away from protest. Instead, I’m more interested with…getting large numbers of people to change their behaviors, to de-pattern themselves…” He realized what he had been doing wasn’t working.
For any of our activism to bring into effect the hoped for ideal of long-term systemic change, it would have to follow the lead of the likes of women’s suffrage. It would go beyond making ourselves feel better in the short-term and aim for changing the c...2020-04-2706 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodAngry Activists Don't Change Anything - Part 1“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation…want rain without thunder and lighting. The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Frederick Douglas
All the work of the women's suffrage movement was calling people to commit to something they already knew was virtuous, to demand of people that they abide their better angels. In order to commit though, men and women had to...2020-04-2705 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodInequality - The Elephant in the Room“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)
A Just society values the individual based on something intrinsic to her humanness, not based on performance or position. We value the newborn child and dying grandfather, the homeless and poor, the wealthy and commercially productive. A Just society’s value for the individual derives from its belief in the individual’s implicit or explicit commitment to act beyond the confines of her own intere...2020-04-2704 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodWhat Does it Mean to Change the World?“Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.” Elihu Burritt
Defining the World We Want to Change
Aristotle said “‘Power will show the man;’ for the man in power is at once associated with and stands in relation to others.” Left to our own devices, those of us with relative power will endeavor to meet our own needs, sometimes at great expense to others. Millions still in slavery today; hundreds of millions killed in wars; incomprehensible inequality. There is nothing inherently wrong with the des...2020-04-2602 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodNot Interested in Converts“Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God has left the building. A list of instructions where there was once conviction; dogma where once people just did it; a congregation led by a man where once they were led by the Holy Spirit. Discipline replacing discipleship.” Bono
None of us today are able to have the same physical face-to-face relationship with a mentor the likes of Jesus from Nazareth. I am a disciple of my business partners, my friends, my family members and so many others who have shaped me hopefully more into...2020-04-2607 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodThe Exponential Impact of a Child“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” Robert Fulghum, author of Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
When I got a call from the principal asking if I was available to come to school “right now” to help comfort my daughter, my heart sank. When I arrived, I could hear her screaming from down the hall. As I stepped into the room, she was highly agitated, not in control of her emotions, wandering around the room tipping over chairs and screaming about how she hated this place...2020-04-2606 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodThe Art of Building Character - Part 2Conviction is the art of character building – painting by numbers only takes us so far. It is not conviction in the disciplined, committed, deeply held belief sort of way. It is the realization that we are somehow lacking, something less than perfectly innocent.
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Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodThe Art of Building Character - Part 1“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General (Ret.) led Desert Storm
The one characteristic of the greatest teams is so uncommon that few even consider it. This may be because none of us really knows how to engineer it. When Seattle Seahawks lineman, J.R. Sweezy takes beating after beating for 60 minutes at a time, day after day, breaking bones and tearing cartilage, it isn’t just for the money and the fame; it’s because he actually cares about ru...2020-04-2207 min
Parents, Priests and Generals - A Guide for How to Change the World for GoodAwe InspiringValuing others means their progress is our progress, their success, our success, their power, our power. Succeeding in this depends on defining ourselves relative to someone or something greater than ourselves.
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