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27 Aug

A Critique of Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright

I finished listening to the audio book Tribal Leadership (available free here thanks to zappos.com) which presents the 5 stages of corporate tribes depicted below.



The descriptive…

21 Aug

Selflessness

“The Buddhist teaching of no-self says that the person I think I am is, in a certain way, not real, at least not in the way I conceive it and enact it in my daily life. But it’s important to…

14 Aug

Why is Indian Philosophy ignored by Western educational institutions?

“An addendum and parting shot at the opposition. As mentioned, most
of us are acutely aware of our philosophy colleagues’ ignorance of Indian
philosophies, which is, particularly after the labor of…

13 Aug

Life in School by Matt Groening

3 Aug

Csikszentmihalhyi on Enhanging Personal Creativity

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has a book entitled Creativity: Flow and Psychology of Discovery and Invention. For this book he interviewed highly creative people from a variety of disciplines (including…

29 Jul

True Humor is Laughter at One's Self

“In the words of a Chinese Zen master, “Nothing is left to you at this
moment but to have a good laugh!” As James Broughton put it:
This is It
and I am It
and You are It
and so is That
and He is It
…

27 Jul

Tapping, Emotional Freedom Technique



27 Jul

Self Awareness: Breaking the Bonds of Memetic Servitude

“Beyond the illusion of ego exists a deeper conceptualization of self: the universe consists of a swirling, dynamic dance of power-relationships, with the black-and-white construct of the individual…

26 Jul

Education and Spontaneity

Initially, knowledge acquisition, especially through formal education, snuffs out imagination & spontaneity. This leads many people to decry education. They see the dulling of imagination as a wrong…

23 Jul

Central Ideas of the Major Epochs

“Every great epoch of human evolution seems to have one absolutely central idea, an idea that totally dominates the entire epoch, and summarizes its entire approach to Spirit and Kosmos, and tells us…

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