Are “Leaders” Really So Special?

Leadership may or may not require certain skills, may or may not be contingent on the nature of the group to be led, or may simply be an emergent property of the organization — but whatever constitutes leadership should be available to all!

Bureaucracy Is (or Should Be) Your Friend

Hobbes to Weber to Trotsky … and Beyond? Over the last few decades in America, and perhaps elsewhere, “bureaucracy” and “bureaucrat” have taken on a pejorative connotation. Why is that? The basic idea of the word (from the French for, literally, a desk) is to describe organizational structures which serve the interests of a leader.Continue reading “Bureaucracy Is (or Should Be) Your Friend”