Sane Leadership
The title of Margaret Wheatley’s new book, Who Do We Choose to Be? Facing Reality Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity intrigued me enough to read it. Facing reality means knowing where we are now and how we got here. Claiming leadership means determining the role of leaders now. And restoring sanity means creating islands of sanity. As with her prior books, one cannot easily summarize it. Rather, I will try focus on the leadership core of her book.
Sane leadership and local leadership comprise the major threads of her leadership discourse. If I had to pick out her core focus it would be this: Sane leadership is the unshakeable faith in people’s capacity to be generous, creative, and kind.… Read the rest
White Evangelicals, Power, Fear, and Trump
An earlier post mentioned that differentiating the subcategories of category 2 () was very difficult. This post, the first of several on the Christian Right or evangelicals, illustrates this difficulty. I place this post under the category of Christian Right although it mentions the 2016 election in which 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump. Since the late ’70s the Christian Right has significantly and continually affected our society and polity. I believe this makes it worthy to treat as a separate subcategory. At times, however, I will treat the Christian Right within the context of Trump’s nomination and election.… Read the rest
White Voter Support for Trump
Two frameworks are useful in trying to explain the surprising 2016 election, and even the surprising nomination, of Donald Trump. One framework focuses on the macro level, covering the larger circumstances and conditions that permitted if not facilitated Trump’s election. The other framework focuses on the micro level, on the specific variables that resulted in Trump’s election. One can justly see Trump’s election as a perfect storm, a combination of many things that permitted his razor edge victory, about 70,000 votes total in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
American voters have gone to the polls five times in this young century to elect a president.… Read the rest
The Last Gasp of Stakeholder Capitalism: The 1960s (2 of 2)
This long post chronicles the last, albeit significant gasp, of stakeholder capitalism.
Kennedy administration
The CED remained influential during the Kennedy administration, especially in trade and tax policies. Kennedy appointed many business leaders to key positions in his administration. These included Walter Heller, Paul Samuelson, a Nobel prize winner and perhaps the most respected Keynesian economist, and Kermit Gordon.
CED’s first success was enactment of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. This gave the president significant authority to negotiate lower tariffs. Kennedy appointed Howard Peterson, a CED trustee, as his special trade advisor, to begin drafting new trade legislation. To get the new trade bill passed Kennedy had to agree to impose quotas on foreign textiles and increase subsidies for Southern cotton growers.… Read the rest
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