More specifically concerning: leadership
Citation (6)
2 February 2003, around 9.17.
Anna Comnena on the character of a good leader…
fortitude
19 April 2003, around 12.35.
Men who have an eye for trouble, men who know that tiny causes have given birth to very great disasters, are full of worry at every unusual event, and, when their troubles are at the zenith, they fear for the outcome and tremble at every harassing rumour. Even if their luck turns, they still cannot […]
naufragium
25 May 2004, around 8.07.
quis autem non magis solos esse…
in the workplace
9 April 2008, around 19.54.
We bicycled four miles through the strange weather of a Portland spring (snow, hail, rain, and sunshine, all in the span of two or three blocks) to see a movie about torture.1 As a movie, I don’t have much to say about it; if the topic interests you, or if the current state of America […]
Montaigne 1.45
20 November 2015, around 7.16.
anachronism There is little one can take away from Montaigne’s account of the battle of Dreux other than being glad one was not there – and that quibbling about managerial decisions has been a (justified) habit from time immemorial.