Ichak Kalderon Adizes's Blog: Insights Blog, page 4
April 17, 2020
My Gurus
While writing my autobiography I discovered the three real gurus of my life and the ones that I look up to in life. The three people that I admire the most. This is how they came into my life and all the reasons why I admire them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4r39... Just thinking, Ichak Kalderon Adizes
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April 10, 2020
The Importance of Maintenance in Your Life
In the 1970s I was consulting for the US Agency for International Development on health planning in Ghana. One of the major issues was that a lot of the hospital equipment was not working. Costly equipment donated by well-meaning philanthropic organizations from Europe and the US was abandoned in the corridors unused. When I asked my…
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April 3, 2020
Love Without Depending
Click on the video to watch my insight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ScE...
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March 27, 2020
Coronavirus Crisis
This passage of news made me shudder:“The White House is discussing easing social-distancing guidelines as early as next week amid a broader debate over how much economic loss the country can bear to save an unknowable number of lives threatened by the pandemic.”Matt Murray, WSJaccess@interactive.wsj.com march 23 2020This materialistic, cost value, computation with human lives make me wonder if only the brain is working…
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March 20, 2020
Why the Coronavirus Panic
One characteristic that distinguishes humans from other living creatures, that makes us unique, is the need to understand. Other living systems have an organism that guides the what, how, when, and with whom of action, but none have philosophers or scientists who try to explain what is going on. Similarly, none have a house of…
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March 13, 2020
Justice in Peri
Years ago, I sued a former associate for stealing and appropriating my intellectual property. We went to court. After two hundred thousand dollars in legal fees, I lost on a technicality. I protested, where is justice? “If you want justice,” a friend of mine, another lawyer, said in a sarcastic tone, “get yourself a…
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March 6, 2020
Who is the Client? The Hypocrisy!
Clients are those entities for whom an organization exists to satisfy their needs. Who are those clients? According to the Chicago school of economics, led by the Milton Friedman thesis and followed largely by economists worldwide, a business organization exists to make profits for its owners. If so, the clients for which the business enterprise…
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February 28, 2020
Once Again on Love
Sahaj Marg, meaning the Natural Way or Heartfulness, is a Mission that practices and promotes a meditation that focuses on the heart. I practice it. It has a prayer. To paraphrase the prayer, it says, “Oh Master, you are the only goal of human life, it is expectation that blocks our way, and you’re the…
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February 21, 2020
How to Make a Complete Decision
To have a decision that will be implemented as desired, we need a complete decision. A complete decision is one that answers the five questions that it is imperative to ask. The imperatives are: why, what, how, who, and by when. Leaving one or more imperatives out confuses delegation and the predicting of implementation. Take leaving out the by when imperative. Type (E) leadership style wants it be done yesterday; Usually upset that it has not been done yet, whatever is his or…
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February 14, 2020
Success is to Have Successful Failures
Life is never smooth and free of troubles. Life is change, and change produces new challenges one needs to address. To address them, one needs to make decisions in situations of uncertainty, and the implementation of such decisions is risky. Thus, change spells: problems. So? I, for one, have never heard of a person who overcame all problems without ever making a mistake. Even God admits to making mistakes by bringing…
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