Two articles on different aspects of having a sense of proportion: how to generate passion while realising you’re the enabler not the destination, and how to teach ethics at business school – just what is business’ ethical relationship to the world it operates in?
And a bonus cracker – how to be ignored (a useful tip for the time-deprived, but not without its dangers!) (For more snippets from around the web, see the full Crackers list.)
Who’s Passion is Greater?: the good people at Brains on Fire – who’s passion for communicating inspired us to have our own blog – make a great point or two about passion. As Graham Parker once sang, “it’s no ordinary word”. Passion creates passion, but it needs to be mutual.
Can you teach ethics to students? The Financial Times’ Judgement Call column explores the issue of teaching ethics at business school (which reminds us of The MBA Oath project, started by students at Harvard). You can get the leopard into the classroom, but can you change it’s spots.
Ensuring Employees ignore you: A Leader’s guide: proof that Americans do understand irony. The modern business leader’s time is valuable: engage people and you’ll only have to waste more of it in a dialogue, right? (Ok, we’re kidding too.)
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29 October 2009 at 1:44 pm
Wow. Thanks so much for the very kind words. We are humbled to have provided the inspiration to start your own blog. And from the looks of things, you’re rocking it out.
Keep on keepin’ on.
29 October 2009 at 2:17 pm
Kind words are a pleasure to provide, Spike – I’ve always thought it’s good manners to acknowledge our inspirations and be grateful to those that provide them. As long as there’s fresh inspiration (and fresh coffee!) in life, we’ll be keeping this going – and we hope you do the same.