Posts made in September, 2007
Presidential Lessons from the Playground
It is almost impossible to pick-up a newspaper or magazine these days without finding articles with suggestions for women who are attempting to re-enter the workplace after taking time off to raise children. Some advise women to emphasize volunteer work and other “professional” duties to explain the resume gap—while others propose women take on consultant titles to show that they were never really out of the game. Perhaps instead of trying of hide years of child rearing behind clever resume language women ought to proudly stand-up for their time in the home and the skills they honed by managing their family. No one who has ever had to talk a three-year out of a...
Read MoreWhen Will Leadership Mean Telling the Truth?
The debate on the Iraq war making its way through Washington this week via General Petraeaus’ testimony before Congress, brings to light the chronic issue of our policy debate today–how dubious facts are often related as truth to buttress political positions. We are well aware how the weapons of mass destruction “data” was used to build a case for going to war in Iraq and despite public numbness toward the deception this type of “factually-based” opinion is rampant in Washington policy-making circles. Many such examples of this type of “fact-finding” were evident in the General’s testimony yesterday–down to the differention of how an individual is...
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