By August Turak on May 2, 2011
Jack Welch, GE’s former CEO and leadership maven made headlines by castigating Hewlett Packard’s board for gross negligence in the wake of the scandal that cost CEO, Mark Hurd, his job. However it was not the scandal per se that drew his ire, but that HP had done such a poor job in succession planning and overall leadership development.
Posted in Transcending Capitalism | Tagged CEO, civilization, Divorce, Duke Chapel, GE, General Electric, HewlettPackard, HP, human nature, Humility, hunting and gathering, Jack Welch, Leadership, Leadership development, Mark Hurd, People, single mothers, Socrates, Succession planning, Wall Street Journal, Wil Willimon, WSJ
By August Turak on July 29, 2010
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh, I was invited to take a graduate course at a professor’s home with students many years my senior. One day the word “anthropomorphic” came up. Ignorant of its meaning, I fashioned [...]
Posted in Career Success, Transformational Organizations, War Stories | Tagged Audacity, Authenticity, Benefits, Career Improvement, Creativity, Humility, Transparency, War Stories
By August Turak on January 25, 2010
‘Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.’ The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: ‘Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live [...]
Posted in Personal Transformation | Tagged Buddha, Dark Night, Enlightenment, Faith, Four Quartets, Gratitude, Humility, Isaiah, Kierkegaard, Morality, Mr. Scrooge, Purification, Service and selflessness, T.S. Elliot, Transformation