In her excellent and justifiably best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness, (The New Press, NY 2012) Michelle Alexander argues and substantiates that “racism is highly adaptable” (p.21ff). Establishing that America has always had a system where the white race sought to control first the American Indians and then…
For some days now, I have been watching, piece by piece, an Amazon Original documentary entitled Human Flow (Jeff Bezos can send me 0000.1% of this week’s earnings as payment for this advertisement). It is a harrowing depiction of refugees, refugee camps, the precious human beings whom are what some folks disdainfully or even dispassionately call “refugees”…
Even though empowerment is both desirable and necessary for effective leadership and organizational health, it is often not employed by some leaders. The barriers to empowerment must therefore be overcome and removed. Roger Gill asserts that “barriers to empowerment include bureaucracy, risk aversion, the need for control over others, fear of a loss of control,…
Spiders are amazing creatures, though they may also be annoying. Five minutes after I passed through the door to my garage, I needed to return into the house for something. As I was passing through the door, a cobweb caught my face. Within five minutes, an (industrious and invisible) spider had navigated my personal space!…