Lessons of Greatness To The Future
It is a crude age, violent and disheartening deeds.
But slowly is being trained to discipline and self discipline all in the interest of the sustainability of the human race.
The character of our age, the western tradition and the accepted way of life has been scribbled by many authors.
The evil amongst us is the concern of many great authors.
Scott Peck, the author who is famous for his classic bestselling book The Road Less Travelled, wrote another book called "People of the Lie: the hope for healing human evil".
Dr Peck in this book, utilizes the same approach he used in The Road Less Travelled to probe the essence of human evil in our society.
He argues that people who are evil attack others instead of facing their own failures.
Peck demonstrates the havoc these people of the lie work in the lives of those around them.
A note can be made here that these people of the lie as described by Scott Peck are in powerful places.
They are the bosses of conglomerates who are managing millions of people who are slaving under these organizations for a living.
People in these organizations are being pushed to work hard to increase revenue.
It seems today's companies are hundred percent concerned with shareholder value and zero percent on human value.
It all about cutting costs and increasing net worth of shareholders of these companies.
And remember in the process of cutting costs somewhere human life is shoved and trampled down.
And so people in these companies take their cues from these bosses and they go about in the streets and alleys as well as in their families behaving in similar fashion - literally kicking and bullying other people.
To the future; attempts are made to remedy the situation described by Scott Peck.
There are books written which provide solutions going to the future.
The biography "Eugen Weber the Greatest Historian of our Times: Lessons to the future" is a case in point.
As reflected on the subtitle of this book, the book is more than mere average biography, but rather it uses historical reference as inspiration to the future.
Equally there is another book by Robin Sharma called "Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari".
In the book the underlying theme is that "Leadership is not about managing things but about developing people".
To understand this theme let us consider this quote from the same book: "Visionary leaders are those who understand that the true assets of any organization go up the elevator in the morning and down it every night.
Quite simply, leadership is about helping people to liberate the fullness of their talents while they pursue a vision you have helped them understand is a worthy and meaningful one.
You can do this.
Your managers can do this.
Even your frontline workers can show leadership in the work that they do.
The best leaders have mastered the twin skills of managing the present while, at the same time, inventing the future"
But slowly is being trained to discipline and self discipline all in the interest of the sustainability of the human race.
The character of our age, the western tradition and the accepted way of life has been scribbled by many authors.
The evil amongst us is the concern of many great authors.
Scott Peck, the author who is famous for his classic bestselling book The Road Less Travelled, wrote another book called "People of the Lie: the hope for healing human evil".
Dr Peck in this book, utilizes the same approach he used in The Road Less Travelled to probe the essence of human evil in our society.
He argues that people who are evil attack others instead of facing their own failures.
Peck demonstrates the havoc these people of the lie work in the lives of those around them.
A note can be made here that these people of the lie as described by Scott Peck are in powerful places.
They are the bosses of conglomerates who are managing millions of people who are slaving under these organizations for a living.
People in these organizations are being pushed to work hard to increase revenue.
It seems today's companies are hundred percent concerned with shareholder value and zero percent on human value.
It all about cutting costs and increasing net worth of shareholders of these companies.
And remember in the process of cutting costs somewhere human life is shoved and trampled down.
And so people in these companies take their cues from these bosses and they go about in the streets and alleys as well as in their families behaving in similar fashion - literally kicking and bullying other people.
To the future; attempts are made to remedy the situation described by Scott Peck.
There are books written which provide solutions going to the future.
The biography "Eugen Weber the Greatest Historian of our Times: Lessons to the future" is a case in point.
As reflected on the subtitle of this book, the book is more than mere average biography, but rather it uses historical reference as inspiration to the future.
Equally there is another book by Robin Sharma called "Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari".
In the book the underlying theme is that "Leadership is not about managing things but about developing people".
To understand this theme let us consider this quote from the same book: "Visionary leaders are those who understand that the true assets of any organization go up the elevator in the morning and down it every night.
Quite simply, leadership is about helping people to liberate the fullness of their talents while they pursue a vision you have helped them understand is a worthy and meaningful one.
You can do this.
Your managers can do this.
Even your frontline workers can show leadership in the work that they do.
The best leaders have mastered the twin skills of managing the present while, at the same time, inventing the future"
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