What is the Good Life?
This week, Fellows Class 18 learned about virtue, ethics, and moral knowledge. This class explored what the good life is and how we are to live the good life now. The world has countless ways to define what the good life is. For some, it may be through simply doing meaningful things, but for others,…
The Truth Hurts; A Strong Leader Tells It
If you read a good bit on leading others you’ve probably noticed a seeming uptick in articles and books on the importance of candor in your work relationships. Broadly speaking candor can be understood as exercising the quality of being frank, open, and exceedingly honest in your opinion of someone or something. This means being…
Getting the Best Ideas from your Team Members
One of the good challenges of working with and leading people is the chance to process and seek to draw out ideas they might have. These ideas might be thinking they have developed toward problem-solving a challenge or a totally new solution that can move the work of the area forward. Coaxing the idea out…