Questiam Leadership Development

This PSA from Arthur Brooks at the Atlantic: "The world encourages us to love things and use people. But that’s backwards. Put this on your fridge and try to live by it: Love people; use things." https://www.theatlantic.com//why-life-has-gotten-m/616807/

Trust is emergent - not foundational.Trust is emergent - not foundational.

Is this plea for external regulation just another corporation attempting to externalize costs? Facebook made the mess and is the only one truly privvy to the variables that drive it, why is it up to government to figure out how to fix it? And have we not learned that regulation at the level of emergence just escalates complexity? True fixing of facebook requires a re-visioning. One that steps away from the primacy of profit. Is that possible in a public corporation? ... https://www.washingtonpost.com//9e6f0504-521a-11e9-a3f7-78

A business leader who defines his personal challenge as fixing a problem is in trouble. The whole company goes into reactive mode and it's one big downward spiral from that point on. You can't fix emergent problems at the level of their emergence and a company without a vision is in decline. While we can hope for the 'corporate acid trip' solution mentioned here. I am not going to count on it. https://medium.com//its-the-advertising-model-stupid-b843c

The consciousness of the leader is the limit to the performance of the organization. This sentiment: in the end, Joly realizes he doesn't need to defeat Amazon. Just co-exist with it.... "You won't get me to say a bad word about Amazon," Joly said. "It's not a zero-sum game." ....Is what will have me buying from BestBuy the next time I’m in the market.

Leadership isn’t about holding the top spot.