Archives for December 2004

Peter Drucker on Leadership

This is straight-to-the-vein wisdom. (via Stephen Shields) Creative AbandonmentA critical question for leaders is, “When do you stop pouring resources into things that have achieved their purpose?” The most dangerous traps for a leader are those near-successes where everybody says that if you just give it another big push it will go over the top. […]

World AIDS Day

As the world commemorates World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, consider this:# More than 15 million children younger than 17 are orphans because of AIDS.# In the two decades since the AIDS pandemic began, more than 30 million have died worldwide, and nearly 38 million are living with HIV/AIDS.From World Vision You speak of signs […]