Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Embracing and Fearing the Void: The Root of Racism
James Baldwin once called America a nation “dedicated to the death of the paradox,” a people particularly fond of the straight-forward answer: the Yes-No, the Black-White, the Just-The-Facts, Ma’am, reply. Which could make reading Baldwin particularly difficult. As Raoul Peck, … Continue reading
The Paradox of “Leadership Lists”
So many books on leadership and management feature lists. There’s Edwards Deming’s “14 Management Principles,” Steven Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” Robert Quinn’s “8 Seed Thoughts.” Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals contains 11 rules on “the ethics of means … Continue reading
Art, Rhythm, Intuition, and Social Change
In his pamphlet The Servant as Leader, Robert Greenleaf writes: “The prudent man is he who constantly thinks of ‘now’ as the moving concept in which past, present moment, and future are one organic unity. And this requires living by … Continue reading