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The Shadow Side of Youth Leadership

// July 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Leadership Development, World Issues

I will start by briefly highlighting two examples, one historical and one contemporary, that demonstrate some of the strikingly real dangers that youth leadership can fall to. From these, I will generalise four core obstacles that leaders must wrestle with in order to avoid such disaster. Finally, I shall describe what the world might learn from youth leaders should they master their puzzle of immaturity before the dreary and dangerous acceptance of age befalls them.

Diversity and Cultural Education

// July 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Leadership Development, World Issues

The need for cultural education and an appreciation of diversity are not only challenges of the 20th century. Competition for resources (land, water, energy, etc) already increases pressure between societies and raises the tensions of real and perceived scarcity to bloody conflict. Conflict all too often justifies the silencing of alternative thought, belief and practice, breeding a dangerous monoculture where ideology can trump reality and incompetence, or worse, atrocity can result.

Between Continents

// May 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Travel

It will be my first return to Europe since I left last June, bringing a three and a half years stint in Amsterdam to a close, and ending seven years off island. In the three short weeks on Continent, I shall be visiting fine cities- London, Bucharest, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam- and a finer group of old friends. I will witness weddings and children, career changes and life choices, all of which mark these rare individual who I’m at most privilege to name as friends.

Melodramatics in Economy

// May 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Travel

Two doses of Dioxylamine drowned out three crying babies and their Balkan entourage for me to garner almost ten hours rest on the long haul from Melbourne. Wide eyed with foreknowledge of each of the inevitable steps that would mark this cinematic torment, I queued “The Book of Eli”. Denzel Washington was admirably stoic, in this Ragnorak style defeat of character, actor and audience- all merely playing out our parts, without hope of redemption or release, each blow leading the film closer to wherever it is that such films go to die, and me to dreamless, chemical sleep.

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