By: Joff Williams on January 29, 2025
“Where we see ordinary people, God sees a rich deposit of gold waiting to be brought forth.” Camacho [1] I enjoy coaching and mentoring. I have had several wonderful people generously share their thoughts, wisdom, and experiences with me. They had helped me seek the Lord in discovering the gold in me, and I wish…
By: Christy on January 29, 2025
Every 8 years, my organization appoints a new executive director, and we are currently walking through this process. Sometimes, this change comes with minimal disruption to organizational direction, and other times it comes with a change of direction, a completely new executive leadership team, and entirely new structures. Thankfully, our board has been pleased with…
By: Michael Hansen on January 29, 2025
I met Pete during my first week at the company. My direct reports and I walked through an assimilation exercise, and I was able to ascertain a few points about their behaviors, backgrounds, and overall company culture. I then transitioned to a series of one-on-one interviews where we dove deeper into their roles, hobbies, family,…
By: Jennifer Eckert on January 29, 2025
I used to have a beautiful chestnut brown pony named Cupcake, with a vibrant star on her forehead and one white sock. She was a mix of a Quarter Horse and a Shetland Pony, perfectly sized for a scrawny kid like me. My mother, a single parent with a modest income, bought her for me…
By: Diane Tuttle on January 29, 2025
A book feels like I have an old friend in my hands. I like the texture, the ability to turn a corner of a page to mark my spot and writing some notes in the margins. Yes, Dr. Jason, I still like to write in my books. Consequently, I was not excited about reading this…
By: Shela Sullivan on January 28, 2025
Karise Hutchinson is a Professor of Leadership and the founder of Illuminaire Leadership, also known as Illuminaire Institute. Hutchinson has dedicated over 20 years to researching, teaching, consulting, and writing about leadership, with the aim to bring life and light to leaders across the globe. Illuminaire Institute uses storytelling to make complex leadership research both…
By: Mathews Manaloor on January 28, 2025
Reading the Overcoming barriers to student learning: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge [1] on the heels of our first book How to Read a Book [2] certainly made reading and understanding of this book easier. By following the outlines of looking at the publishing data, table of contents, background of the contributors, index, foreword and…
By: Adam Cheney on January 28, 2025
This has been a hard week to work in the world of immigration. To put it bluntly, I am exhausted and weary. Executive Orders regarding immigration seem to be coming at lightning speed and it is challenging to stay on top of them. Add this to barrage of needs and requests and it feels a…
By: Glyn Barrett on January 28, 2025
Karise Hutchinson’s leadership magazine Illuminaire[i] provides an exploration of leadership and is a blend of research findings, thought-provoking conversations with leadership consultants, and reflective essays, offering a holistic view of what it means to lead effectively in today’s world. The magazine is organised into four thematic sections, each commentating a distinct aspect of leadership.…
By: Ryan Thorson on January 27, 2025
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In some ways that it cannot intend Is born, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.” ~ Wendell Berry, from 1979 in This Day I appreciated very much reading through this volume of illuminaire on leadership. Hutchinson and her contributors have woven together a wonderful tapestry…
By: Jeff Styer on January 27, 2025
Illuminaire Volume One was a refreshing publication to read.[1] Karise Hutchinson effectively laid out the purpose of the publication “I created Illuminaire Press to provide a platform that harnesses the collective wisdom from research and practice, bringing science and strategy of leadership together through story and art. In my experience, it is the triangulation that…
By: Joel Zantingh on January 27, 2025
We’re in an interesting cultural moment with Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancing exponentially, reinforcing the necessity to discover what it means to truly be human. When we speak of intelligence, the importance of knowledge and of productivity are there, but there are elements of our human-essence that go far beyond what the AI is coded for,…
By: Noel Liemam on January 26, 2025
Issue of AI “Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever from going rogue. One under-explored solution these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans.…
By: Daren Jaime on January 24, 2025
I will never forget a conversation that ensued with a family friend nearly 3 decades ago. She implored me to pay my toll using the cashier and boycott using the express lane. Her reason was simple: “humanity is being replaced by automation, and Daren will soon lose many jobs.” Several years later, she was forced…
By: Alex Mwaura on January 24, 2025
I don’t know where my passion for serving the most vulnerable emanated from. Perhaps it’s because I was at some point in life equally vulnerable and living on the edge but experienced how kind-heartedness can positively affect human lives. Or maybe God just planted a seed in my heart to care and support the less…
By: Glyn Barrett on January 24, 2025
I have a Shorkie (pictured). His name is Milo. He is two and is a cross between a Shitzu and a Yorkshire terrier (Yorkie). He follows me everywhere, and I love him. In our weekly doctoral Zoom calls, you will see him sleeping in my reading chair behind me. If you have a dog, you…
By: Ivan Ostrovsky on January 23, 2025
I still remember when my family moved from Minsk, Belarus, to Moscow, Russia. It was a huge change for us: a new country, city, and school. I was set to go into third grade. My parents sent me to one of the top schools in Moscow, not because I was a particularly smart kid, but…
By: Linda Mendez on January 23, 2025
It was the second quarter of my first year; I sat in Dr. Wonil Kim’s Old Testament class and thought the earth would open up and swallow him up for the heresy he was teaching. I could not sit through the 2-hour class that day; I felt that merely sitting there would make me an…
By: Chad Warren on January 23, 2025
In Marvel’s Age of Ultron, Tony Stark’s well-meaning attempt to create an artificial intelligence protector goes catastrophically wrong when Ultron, his creation, turns against humanity. Ultron concludes humanity is Earth’s greatest threat. When he declares, “They are doomed,” it becomes clear that the AI villain’s cold logic sees humanity’s flaws—its contradictions, irrationality, and uncertainty—as its…
By: Julie O'Hara on January 23, 2025
While taking a brief scroll break this morning, the first thing in my feed was a fluffy piece on @ridethenews about a company called Realbotix that touts its life-like AI robots as a possible cure for the epidemic of loneliness. According to the company’s website, “Created to be social, our robots and AI are…
