Posts with keyword: philosophy

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We Are the Ten

Mon Mar 9 09:27:00 2009

Steve Fulling articulated some principles a few years back on business, leadership, and life that he called "We Are the Ten." While the ideas in general were not necessarily original with him, the document was a powerful vision ofhow self-actualized people go about working together. Here is the preamble: We believe teams are only as good as the values that bond them together. We reject the notion that in a team of one hundred, ten do the work. We are the ten. We believe values and culture can fundamentally transform the behaviors and actions of a team. We reject
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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

Sun May 13 07:59:00 2007

A while back, during a recording for the Technometria podcast, Matt Asay mentioned he was reading a biography of William James. I'm not sure what intrigued me about what he said, but right after the broadcast I ordered a copy. It took me a while for it to get to the top of my reading list, but it finally did and I read it during my trip to Banff for WWW2007. William James was one of the members of the polymath James family, his brother was the famous novelist Henry James and his sister Alice was famous for her
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