Setting priorities

I just listened to a TEDtalks presentation by Bjørn Lomborg on “Our priorities for saving the world.” While he holds highly controversial positions related to global problems, what I found most interesting was his discussion of how to think about setting priorities for solving problems.

Of course, one way of problem solving is to ask, […]

The election is history! Now what?

November 9, 1932 headlines

Characteristically, in the last stages of the campaign, it’s been evident that politics in the raw is seldom mild.

In an old mining cabin high in the White Mountains, I found an old newspaper tacked to the wall. Besides the headlines proclaiming Roosevelt’s win, there was another page of […]

Think about the future

Miki Saxon (Leadership Turn) wrote in Leaders who DON’T: politicians:

“We have no leaders, let alone statesmen, just ideologues, elected by like-minded ideologues, who care only about getting reelected, bringing government money back to their constituency and making lucrative connections in the event they aren’t reelected or are caught by term limits.”

Then, in his […]