Posts Tagged ‘morality’
Plato’s Warnings to Modern Business Orators
Father Schall, a professor at Georgetown University, tells his classes, “If you’ve read Plato just once, you haven’t really read Plato.” Keeping that in mind, I decided to pick up Plato again, and re-read the Gorgias. Read the rest of this entry »
Berlin
Today, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers the opportunity to reflect on leadership and how leaders can affect history, people and events. One important realization: leadership is primarily a moral undertaking. Skills, personality, and technique recede as distant considerations when we consider truly momentous examples of leadership. Read the rest of this entry »