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What's the Value in Following Rather Than Leading?

By The Whitman Institute // April 2, 2010

By John Esterle How do we make following sexy? This question has stayed with me since Katherine Fulton, President of The Monitor Institute, posed it a few days ago at the Annual Meeting of Northern California Grantmakers. It probably stuck because I think it’s an important question to address if more foundations are to move…

2010: Serving the Emerging Paradigm

By The Whitman Institute // December 28, 2009

by Pia Infante In this New York Times’ 2009 Year in Pictures snapshot, I was reminded that this Administration, for all its disappointed high hopes for year one, does attempt/intend to do a successively modern iteration of public dialogue. And even though this picture documents the improbable meeting of four men, the public dialogue I’m…

What are the Rules of Engagement in Copenhagen?

By The Whitman Institute // December 8, 2009

By Pia Infante As the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen kicks off a two-week gathering of 110 world leaders and roughly 15,000 delegates, I must admit that I’m intensely fascinated about the mechanisms for dialogue and decision-making at an event that some analysts have already predicted will fall quite short of a unilaterally…

With Or Without God

By Pia Infante // November 23, 2009

A couple of experiences of late call my attention to a rather large question. First, I sang with my choir at the How Sweet The Sound gospel choir competition to 13,000 people who congregated to hear gospel music… which is, well, about God, or Spirit, or the Universe, or the Divine Essence, or the vast…

What's the Value in Following Rather Than Leading?

2010: Serving the Emerging Paradigm

What are the Rules of Engagement in Copenhagen?

With Or Without God

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