Quintessential leaders have character traits that distinguish them among people in leadership positions. While quintessential leaders have imperfections, make mistakes, and sometimes fail spectacularly, these character traits define how they handle themselves in both the worst of times and the best of times. (more…)
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A Quintessential Leadership Perspective of Episode 1 of Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War”
Posted: September 18, 2017 in Examples and Analyses of Lack of Leadership and Unquintessential LeadershipTags: 2017, Episode 1, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, PBS, The Vietnam War, unquintessential leadership
I have been anticipating Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War on PBS since I first heard about the project, because I knew it would be a comprehensive, thorough, and objective look at the Vietnam War from a before, during, and after perspective.
Episode 1, “Déjà Vu (1858-1961)” did not disappoint.
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Book Review: “The Blood of Emmett Till” by Timothy B. Tyson
Posted: August 29, 2017 in Book ReviewsTags: Blood Done Sign My Name, Injustice, murder, racism, The Blood of Emmett Till, Timothy B. Tyson, unquintessential leadership, white supremacy
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
As with Blood Done Sign My Name, the sordid story of widespread white supremacism that led to racist murder in Oxford, NC in 1970, Timothy B. Tyson has yet again masterfully shone the light on how entrenched racism has been – and, in many ways, still is – in the South. (more…)
The Unquintessential Leadership of the Vietnam War
Posted: May 29, 2017 in Examples and Analyses of Lack of Leadership and Unquintessential LeadershipTags: dishonesty, Memorial Day 2017, trust, unquintessential leadership, Vietnam War
Today, May 29, 2017, is Memorial Day in the United States. Designated a national holiday in 1971, most Americans probably don’t see Memorial Day as much more than the beginning of summer and don’t know the roots of how this annual day of commemorating those who’ve died in military service to this country originated. (more…)
The Almost-Irresistibly Seductive Combination of False Information and Charismatic People – A Quintessential Leader Perspective
Posted: March 5, 2017 in Examples and Analyses of Lack of Leadership and Unquintessential LeadershipTags: alternative facts, angling, charismatic people, False information, lies, omission, seduction, spin, trust, unquintessential leadership
We the peeps are strange, as Jim Morrison and the Doors observed in one of the band’s less enigmatic songs.
On the one hand, we have a great potential and capacity for intellect, logic, reason, and critical thinking, all of which can give us the ability to be objective, to think well, and to make sound decisions.
Yet, on the other hand, we overwhelmingly have the propensity to be absolutely slaves to our emotions, all of which are subjective, biased, seldom based on anything more than the feeling of the moment, and which completely derail that other side of us that should always be engaged and also always be the leader in the final outcome of what we say and do or where we go next. (more…)
Book Review of “Arc of Justice” by Kevin Boyle
Posted: February 26, 2017 in Book ReviewsTags: Arc of Justice, Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith, death, fear, ignorance, Kevin Boyle, Ku Klux Klan, Nat Turner, prejudice, racism, unquintessential leadership, violence
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin G. Boyle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The heart of this story is about a first-generation free black man who, through the sacrifices of his parents, was able to become a physician took place in 1920’s Detroit, but it could be taking place right now in 2017 anywhere in America as a new wave of virulent racism, prejudice, and white supremacy sweeps this nation under the alt right rhetoric and “alternative facts” of a new generation of ignorant and fear-mongering groups, who are strongly reminiscent of the KKK and its subsidiaries that swept the country in the 1920’s. (more…)
The Quintessential Leader 