The heroism of so many may be unsung, un-noted by wider society. It may even slip away – as, in truth, it so often does – into the sands of time, leaving no apparent impression whatever. But their legacy is not in their fall to a mortality which they never presumed to scornfully rise above . . .
We tend to throw words around a bit carelessly when we talk about leadership. One example of that is the common habit of equating leaders with heroes. . .
A military outfit is a great place to study organizational dynamics, and one of the best places among them is a fighting Navy ship. You can come to an appreciation of what truly matters, what really contributes to victory under stressful conditions, and the role that leadership actually plays. . .
There is often a false distinction made between diplomacy and force. Far too often, this is promoted by the diplomats. They wish to make the case that they can solve the world’s problems through the refined and sophisticated diplomatic art of which they are the masters, and which they believe to be inexpressibly superior to what they depict as the crude threat or application of force. But that is plain nonsense. . .
Years ago one of the annual lists of best excuses given by drivers to police officers included this gem . . .
One of the books I read recently made much of what is, after all, a widely understood and tiresome point about statistics – and misidentified the significance of that observation, to boot – but also retold one of the more entertainingly illuminating stories around. Here it is . . .
The evolving debate over the difference between us and the animals proceeds apace. Animals are now regarded as having true communication ability including language, generationally transmitted culture, even a wide range of what we had previously imagined to be solely human emotions.
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