By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on December 7, 2022
Tod Bolsinger’s Tempered Resilience, like other themes we have seen in recent days, reveal that leadership formation is a challenging journey. “Bolsinger suggests four critical characteristics and specific practices to produce grounded resilience necessary for transformational leadership through change.”[1] As seen in other sources, these themes somehow suggest that to attain a worthwhile status of…
By: David Beavis on December 6, 2022
“He is the kind of man I want to be like when I am in my senior years.” These words came to mind as we were at the Desmond and Leah Tutu Exhibit. Tutu was a man of remarkable depth, love for people, and a zest for life. How his character formed into such a…
By: Laura Fleetwood on December 4, 2022
Shame is a universal emotion in the human experience. It is not a pleasant emotion, nor is it typically a helpful one. Shame guru, researcher Brene Brown, states that, “shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love, belonging, and connection.” (1) Author Shelby Steele…
By: Daron George on December 4, 2022
*Please forgive me for the long and late post but this one was hard….professors please don’t count these few words toward my word count..haha” Intro In his book “Shame: how America’s past sins have polarized our country.” Steele makes a case that the issue of America’s past (namely racism) has diminished dramatically, if not altogether.…
By: Alana Hayes on December 4, 2022
I’ve sat in silence while writing this blog for over a week. I read the entire book of Steele, and still did not feel like I was authorized or entitled in the slightest to complete the assignment. I then decided that I would listen to it audibly to see if I could hear it another…
By: Michael O'Neill on December 2, 2022
My Personal Take on Racism It is no secret that America has a long and complicated history with race. For centuries, America was home to slavery and racism, two issues that continue to plague the country to this day. This history has created a divide between the races in America, and segregation can be…
By: Chad McSwain on December 2, 2022
Conviction is what I felt as I read Shelby Steele’s Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country. This kind of conviction leads to examination of thoughts, behaviors and even societal tendencies, particularly those that have been participated in, while being unaware. In this book, Steel names the very thing that should convict us…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on December 1, 2022
Truth be told, I could not figure out how to apply my quick-read formula to Shelby Steele’s Shame, How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country. I read the entire book, carefully, cover to cover. I feel like I need to read it again. Summary of Steele’s Book Steele presents an in-depth, well thought out…
By: Caleb Lu on December 1, 2022
Shelby Steele’s Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized our Country attempts to address the historical reasons behind the rise of modern liberalism (primarily White moral guilt), which he believes is the primary driving force behind modern racial inequality, and why the freedom offered by conservatism is the answer.[1] Steele goes on to address what…
By: Tonette Kellett on December 1, 2022
Shame Shelby Steele’s book, Shame, was a thought-provoking read this week. The story of the author’s personal journey during America’s tumultuous fight for Civil Rights in the 1960s and following was captivating. While I certainly agree with his father, who was the son of a man born into slavery, that we shouldn’t “underestimate America ……
By: David Beavis on December 1, 2022
An enlightening video of Berkley Law Professor Khiara Bridges and Senator Josh Hawley emerged on the internet this summer. In this video of the senate judiciary hearing on abortion access and the law, a tense exchange between Prof. Bridges and Sen. Hawley ensued.[1] The debate centered on transgenderism and the ability of men to become…
By: Becca Hald on December 1, 2022
I am racist. Yes, I admit it. I struggle and push against my racism. I do not want to be racist, but it is there. In a recent conversation with a friend of mine, I told her that I think that anyone who claims to not be racist is racist. We all have minor or…
By: Audrey Robinson on November 29, 2022
Quick Summary of Shelby Smith’s Shame The civil rights movement of the 1960s was inspired by “classic” Jeffersonian liberalism, which sought freedom for the individual above all else.[1] However, since that time, whites, fearful of being labeled racist, have created a plethora of social programs and identity politics, all of which have crippled the individual…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on November 29, 2022
Steele’s book Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country is well-written and thought-provoking; it has brought me to reflect on many issues in our global community today. As a person born right in the war zone, I continue to wonder about the role of those of faith in the political arena, but as…
By: Alana Hayes on November 28, 2022
Introduction What is an undefended leader? An undefended leader is someone who has put in the work as well as has experience so that their gut reaction to any situation they are faced with is the correct response. The leader should act as a guide in their known to individuals that do not know the…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on November 27, 2022
The term “smithing” indicates a process whereby a material is shaped, molded, formed, and improved over time. This is exactly the idea behind Eve Poole’s book entitled, Leadersmithing, Revealing the Trade Secrets of Leadership. In her opinion, strong leaders are shaped, molded, formed and improved over time, growing into their potential as stronger and more…
By: Laura Fleetwood on November 27, 2022
Imagine my dismay when I sat down to write this blog post and realized I read the wrong book for the week’s assignment. I was prepared to write about Tempered Resilience by Tod Boslinger only to discover I actually needed to read Leadersmithing by Eve Poole. After a few choice words and a very late night, I…
By: Audrey Robinson on November 27, 2022
Bounded Rationality: A Precursor to Systems 1 and 2 Herbert Simon, an economist, and political scientist coined the phrase “bounded rationality” in 1947 in his work The Administrative Behavior. He was interested in decision-making and questioned the concept of perfect rationality that had dominated common and scientific knowledge.[1] Simon redefined human rationality and, at the…
By: Alana Hayes on November 26, 2022
Kahneman set out to “Continue to improve the ability to identify & understand errors of judgement & choice in others & eventually in ourselves by providing a richer & more precise language to discuss them.” (1) That ultimately led to him wining a Nobel peace prize in economics. The first Nobel Peace prize organization started…
By: Michael O'Neill on November 26, 2022
We are living in a time of “leadership bankruptcy,” therefore, there has never been a greater opportunity for leaders to step up and claim their position.[1] Bankruptcy is an unfortunate reality for many corporations and the responsibility frequently rests in the hands of leadership. Leadership can “make-or-break” an organization and I would argue that it…
