… makes for an Interesting Read
humanity”Philosophy is a liberal art. Law is not.
Biology is a liberal art. Medicine is not.
Physics is a liberal art. Engineering is not.
Sociology is a liberal art. Criminal justice is not.
Psychology is a liberal art. Counseling is not.
Education is a liberal art. Teaching is not.
Literature is a liberal art. Journalism is not.”
For an isolationist president pulling the US out of skirmishes around the world against any and all advice … he sure his waggling his saber at Venezuela a lot.
Not to bang on about it all too much - but this is a great read from John Pilger.
“Of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored,” said former President Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Centre is a respected monitor of elections around the world, “I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world.” By way of contrast, said Carter, the US election system, with its emphasis on campaign money, “is one of the worst”.
“In 2018, Maduro was re-elected President. A section of the opposition boycotted the election, a tactic tried against Chavez. The boycott failed: 9,389,056 people voted; sixteen parties participated and six candidates stood for the presidency. Maduro won 6,248,864 votes, or 67.84 per cent.
“On election day, I spoke to one of the 150 foreign election observers.”It was entirely fair,” he said. “There was no fraud; none of the lurid media claims stood up. Zero. Amazing really.”
Maduro is “illegitimate”, says Trump (who won the US presidency with three million fewer votes than his opponent), a “dictator”, says demonstrably unhinged vice president Mike Pence and an oil trophy-in-waiting, says “national security” adviser John Bolton (who when I interviewed him in 2003 said, “Hey, are you a communist, maybe even Labour?”).
Oh … and I nearly forgot :
politics“As his”special envoy to Venezuela” (coup master), Trump has appointed a convicted felon, Elliot Abrams, whose intrigues in the service of Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush helped produce the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s and plunge central America into years of blood-soaked misery.”
Stowe Boyd writing today in his newsletter:
“I am ambivalent about authors making too grand a case in favor of finding meaning and purpose through our work. Note that I personally am driven to do the work I have decided to do. On the other hand, I also deeply believe that our culture – especially in the US – is far too cultish about work, and that many people would gladly work significantly less if they could afford to.”
I agree - except I don’t.
In simple terms, it’s already hard to find an income you can survive on in the world we live in … to add ‘meaning and purpose’ to the ’requirements seems a stretch too far … under the current system.
BUT
But, what if we reinterpreted the system. What if we created a business equation that had people at the center - to business. What then would it all look like.
It’s a big topic, but I am taking it on … it’s what People First is all ABOUT.
people.first“For instance, onboarding training ….. will also give them an idea of how they will fit into the whole organization.”
I look forward to the day when organizations are flexible enough so that when new people join, they are given an idea of how the organization will fit round them.
people.first“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
Steven Pressfield
The task centered economy is driven by market forces aiming at lowering the cost of tasks while The people-centered economy is driven by market forces aiming at raising the value of people.
I know what they’re saying - there must be a better way of saying it.
people.first people.centered.economy“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
”Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“Knowledge consists in the search for truth… It is not the search for certainty.”
Karl Popper
”There is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address.”
Edgar Froese
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