by Rick Baker
On Nov 4, 2013
Thought Tweet #861 Balancing the strange comfort in ‘standing by’ against the positive change that follows ‘stepping up’.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
When you must place a bet favouring either People or Situations, place your bet on Situations. That's what some social psychologists are teaching.
Why?
Why would social psychologists recommend we bet on the situation influencing the person rather than bet on the person influencing the situation?
Because there is much evidence illustrating how people are prepared to 'stand by' and do nothing in situations involving bad things ranging from workplace incivility and poor work ethics to pollution and its impact on Mother Nature to school bullying and public muggings to fundamentalism, bigotry, and genocidal atrocities.
All that said, in every such 'bad' situation each of us has a choice: we can 'stand by' or we can 'step up'.
The ancient wisdom…
If not me who?
If not now when?
by Rick Baker
On Nov 1, 2013
Thought Tweet #860.5 You wanna lead, you gotta read.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
The Pharaohs and high priests of ancient Egypt knew that.
Abe Lincoln knew it...
"A capacity, a taste for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, a facility, for successfully pursuing the (yet) unsolved ones."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
You should know it too.
by Rick Baker
On Nov 1, 2013
Thought Tweet #860 Business leaders are lighters of little fires...igniting baby steps of action, inspiring baby steps of value.
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Inspire People. Influence Action. Grow Value!
...which naturally leads to Wealth.
[That’s the path of Business Leadership]