Takeaways Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Leading Global Change
Heifetz – mobilizing others to do adaptive work
Challenges:
Not all individuals are “early adopters.” Those that are slow to change may need to have risk reduced to balance stress level.
Leaders have difficulty differentiating between technical and adaptive issues. (A problem of misdiagnosis)
Diana included class on New Orleans case study. Brainstorm ideas for Daryl’s plight using adaptive processing.
Diana encouraged class to support Daryl and offer ideas at www.unitedsaints.org Nan challenged us to personalize globalization. Sen vs. Friedman perspective Clarification of Paper criteria
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My take on Sen is that he's an economist, looking to educate and formulate processes for change. Perhaps my issue with Friedman is that he's a journalist, a documenter and observer; using his work less as a platform for proposing alternatives.
Ethically, what are professionals required to do?
Thomas Hobbes had the notion of the professional as an artificial person, someone forgoing individual values + preferences to serve the requirements of the profession [e.g. lawyer as an officer of the court, fair representation for either side]. As our world gets flatter and more topics need to be covered in the daily newspaper, mass media has seen a degradation in critical journalism [as supported by Chomsky + Zinn].
We could explore what journalists should do, or economists. But for who we read, what are writers required to do? Perhaps embedded in the concept of publishing a book should be a priority to provoke discussion or promote change.
Architects have to uphold the building code.
What is the writer's code?
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Posted by: Sarah Wolbert | April 18, 2008 05:16 PM