• LEADERSHIP IS NO LONGER ALL ABOUT BEING ‘THE BOSS’ – with all the answers, direction and ‘my way’ decisions. Instead, today it’s more about “facilitating, empowering, developing, nurturing and inspiring others to find their own directions. The new Leader is a coach or supporter of others, not someone who calls all the shots.” The millennial workforce is largely comprised of “knowledge workers, who want to have their say, not be ‘told’ what to do,” and the fact is that they’re needed for that knowledge. For many Boomer and Gen X leaders, this change in the model is a rough transition, but DCG have expertise in developing management and communication processes to lessen the anguish. [GLOWAN.COM – May 19, 15]
• THE PENDING SUPREME COURT ‘DECISION’ ON FEDERALIZING SAME SEX MARRIAGE “will not be based on dispassionate reading of the Constitution, but rather will be a reflection on the political orientation, values and visceral feelings of each justice… effectively the result of a mini-election as nakedly polarized as the country itself… simply politics by other means” – a vote by nine unelected justices who “call ‘em as they prefer to see ‘em… So let’s drop any remaining pretense that justices are impartial arbitrators calling balls and strikes on the issues that divide us.” [THE WEEK – May 8, 15]
• WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE, EXISTING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS WILL LIKELY BE “CRUSHED as new business models with better and more efficient care emerge. Thousands of startups, as well as today’s data giants (Google, Apple, Microsoft, SAP, IBM, etc.) will all enter this lucrative $3.8 trillion healthcare industry with new business models that dematerialize, demonetize and democratize today’s bureaucratic and inefficient system. Biometric sensing (wearables) and Artificial Intelligence will make each of us the CEOs of our own health. Large-scale genomic sequencing and machine learning will allow us to understand the root cause of cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative disease and what to do about it. Robotic surgeons can carry out an autonomous surgical procedure perfectly (every time) for pennies on the dollar. Each of us will be able to regrow a heart, liver, lung or kidney when we need it, instead of waiting for the donor to die.” [PETER DIAMANDIS NWSLTR – May 10, 15]
• BLASPHEMOUS ‘HATE SPEECH’ is how the Liberal media has portrayed the ‘Draw Muhammad’ exhibition in Texas, after radical Islamists attempted a terrorist attack. “Curious, isn’t it, that the outraged Left hotly defend the right of self-styled ‘artists’ to create works that offend Christians – and at U.S. taxpayer expense.” (E.g. public money has funded the ‘Piss Christ’ crucifix of Jesus in a glass of urine, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photos of urine drinking & sexual bondage, Brooklyn museum’s display of the Virgin Mary composed of elephant dung & pornographic pictures, etc). “Whenever Conservatives have tried to cut off public funding for such art, Liberal elites have freaked out, thundering that censorious prudes were trampling the 1^st ‘Fascists!’ they cried.” Yet violent terrorists deserve respect and empathy for their beliefs? And simple drawings are blasphemous Hate Speech which merit headlines from mainstream media – our national conscience… [THE WEEK – May 22, 15]
• A RELATED ABSURDITY ARE ‘TRIGGER WARNINGS’ – another Political Correctness invention from liberal universities to protect students from matters which may offend their sensitivities about racism, violence, suicide and so forth. The premise is that students deserve to feel ‘safe’ and not ‘traumatized’ in their studies. Basically, every work of literature can be labeled as “potentially offensive. There goes the Bible, Dante, Huck Finn – since, in the end, anybody can claim offense or triggering about anything: liberals about conservative politics, pacifists against violence, women against sexism, creationists against evolution, and so on. It’s time for students to learn that Life is Triggering. Once they leave college, they’ll be constantly exposed to views that challenge or offend them,” poor things.  [NEW REPUBLIC – May 20, 15]
•  THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:   “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean