The road to hypocrisy is pave with ideologies.
This is especially obvious in the confirmation comments around Judge Sotomayor.
According to Republicans she would bring bias to the Court, but we already have that in the current Court.
The difference is that the current bias is in tune with Conservative Republicans, whereas Sotomayor’s MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™) isn’t.
So the “we want to avoid bias on the Court” is more correctly stated as “we want to avoid bias on the Court unless it agrees with ours.”
Beliefs are based on and fed by passion, whether it’s religious or ecological; animal lover or tree hugger, the …read more

Monday Slacker Manager wrote that people quit managers, not companies; I took that further in my Tuesday post saying that

Adequate managers manage employees.
Good managers manage people.
Great managers manage persons.

Marvin commented that this also applied to families, saying, “It was a great reminder that people don’t leave families, they leave the leaders of that family. … Adequate husbands/fathers have a wife and kids, Good husbands/fathers provide for their wife and kids, Great husbands/fathers learn the individual needs of their wife and kids and serve them accordingly.”
I …read more

Do you work for a company or a manger? Phil Gerbyshak over at Slacker manager did a great post on the fact that people quit managers, not companies—great because it is so true.
If you ask most people who they work for they’ll name a company, but if you ask them why they love or hate it, stay or leave they’ll usually mention a manager, the people or the culture, which is a projection of the manager and the people.
People quitting is expensive and bad for team morale, but, as Phil pointed out, they can quit and not leave, which, from …read more

Although I read a lot of article and blogs, I’m very particular about what I pass on to you. I often link to a particular post, but have a much more limited list to share when people write and ask what to read daily when they have very limited time.
I find the topics relevant, but there are a multitude of similar topics every day, so what sets the ones I choose apart? Synergistic MAP and the writing.
I admit that I’m a writing snob. Quantity doesn’t equal quality; reading through dense prose bores me, so the ones I like are clearly …read more

Wednesday Phil Gerbyshak over at Slacker Manager shared his application of Edward Brown’s description of the two dominant leadership models, Charismatic Leadership (often described as arousing the emotions of the populous through imagery and poetic prose) and Traditional Leadership (Often described as operations-centric and unilateral while courting consensus building) and analyzed Obama and McCain in that light.
I thought I’d add to that with a guest post from Korn/Ferry International’s Kevin Cashman and Ken Brousseau (detailed bios at end of post), in which they apply their CEO assessment, expertise and constructs to the Presidential candidates.
Note: The candidates are discussed in random order …read more