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Uber CEO Steps-down from Trump Business Council by Threatened Customer Boycott

Starbucks Faces Boycott After Pledging to Hire Refugees

Trump Attacks Nordstrom over Daughter’s Clothing-line

Breitbart Editor’s Event Canceled as Protests Turn Violent at UC Berkeley;

The Senate is Coming Apart

Is California Really Going to Secede?

Relationships are becoming politically radicalized. Which car service you use, coffee you drink, bracelet you wear, speaker is allowed to speak – are now forced-choice political decisions and even political statements. Boycott this, protest […]

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. General George S. Patton

Whether with President Trump, certain celebrity speakers at the Women’s March or disagreements with family or friends — each of us must decide how we respond to differences that offend us: Do we continue this game or change it? Louder shouts, more offensive language, more aggressive tactics are part of the current game that magnifies the conflict and escalates the arms race. It is a game this country […]

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Even the new physics tells us that matter is merely the manifestation of spirit, but spirit, consciousness, relationship itself is the real thing. We used to think all the energy was in the particles of the atom; now it seems that energy is, in fact, in the space between the particles. Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs

For most of us the space between the particles – between you, me, others – our relationships, will be defining regarding how the year 2017 unfolds. […]

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It’s time to admit we don’t know. The way to know isn’t ideology. It’s relationships. Trevor Ruddock Black

Fight hard, win the election, overstate your mandate, overreach – rinse and repeat. It happened with President Bush after his 3.5 million-vote second-term victory, “I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.” Similarly, with President Obama after winning a second term, his comments were summarized by the Washington Post: “I won. Deal with it.” Invasion of […]

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More than half of Americans say the 2016 election is a major source of stress. American Psychological Association 10/13/16

Much of the stress associated with the Presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton can be attributed to how two different types of groups — teams and tribes — have run-amok. In fact, much of employee disengagement in business, church defections from denominations and institutional distrust emanates from dysfunction within tribal and team-oriented groups and their leaders.

Leadership guru and former Navy […]

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5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts CNN 9/9/16
Wells Fargo CEO Grilling by Congress: Round 2 CNN 9/29/16

AA Pilots Blast Return of Toxic Culture Bloomberg 3/6/16
AA Reverses Course on Employee Profit-sharing WSJ 3/28/16

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace NYT  8/15/15                                                                     […]

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(T)he thing that worries me…Silicon Valley’s fundamental business model, I look at it like Monopoly…Google, Airbnb, Uber, Amazon. Monopolies mean you only have one place to sell…I don’t like this winner-take-all model, this Google model. John Landgraf, CEO, FX

Kevin Durant to Join Golden State Warriors, headline NYT, July 4, 2016

Monopoly is a form – or more accurately a deformity – of relationship where power is not shared or distributed but amassed and hoarded by one side. The words “powerful elite” […]

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Cheryl Hall at the Dallas Morning News analyzes Robert’s Huffington Post blog, “No Victims Leadership:  The Road Out of Hell,” about how leaders and followers have taken on the role of victim and what leaders must do to break this cycle of “dueling entitlements.”

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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. John Stuart Mill

Orlando now joins San Bernardino, Paris, Fort Hood and many others. Attempts to understand these atrocities focus on the ideology and theology of the killers – issues around ISIS, radical Islam, and hate crimes. But those issues beg a bigger question. How have our own ideology and theology immobilized our ability to respond? We lament that the enemy does not change their ideology while […]

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Much of what was once done by congressional legislation is now done by judicial decrees, agency rules or presidential executive orders. The New York Times 5/14/16

Baylor’s senior leadership lacked consistent or meaningful engagement.  The New York Times 5/30/16

Lazy leadership is a growth industry:  a President issues executive orders rather than engage congress and citizens to address his agenda; law-makers become warriors in “opposing” but deserters in “advocating”; deadbeat dads abandon their families fleeing responsibility; corporate leaders […]

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