Leadership Ladder

  This is really about principles over labels Rather, it is about the place where we hold principles to be primary. It is principles about principles. I tried for years to practice these principles. It has become increasingly difficult due to outside pressures: I used to make it a point to forget what red and blue are as designations for political persuasions and states. I have found it increasingly difficult to be successful at that forgetfulness. I would like to recapture that deficiency. Thankfully, I cannot always keep track. Principles transcend labels. I don't care what the branding is on a good idea. If it is a good idea, it is a good idea -- same with a bad idea. The camp from which it comes is less important than where we can go with it and whether or not it propels truth or truth-seeking. That being said - If I know where something is coming from, I might detect the attachment of an unspoken or unwritten agenda and I might keep my eyes open and my nose clear to sniff out...

We learn lessons every time there is a catastrophe or potential catastrophe like this. I say that we learn them, but I mean that we could learn them if we would pay attention, reflect, consider, plan, execute, and anticipate. Lessons we would all acknowledge, but we cannot say we have learned until we implement strategies are: 1. We are vulnerable and getting more vulnerable daily because we are growing more dependent upon technology. 2. We have sources and resources for protection. They cost time and money, but they can help eliminate, ameliorate, or minimize great loss. 3. The old Cold War notion of the domino effect applies to our digital world and networks today. When one sector goes down, all are potentially effected. 4. The suffering that is possible when the network crashes does not simply plague the powerful; it touches the most vulnerable. It is human suffering. 5. The time to plan for crisis is when we are not in a crisis. 6. Those who are prepared, recover more quickly. 7. ...