The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
"For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb." Study: Whaling can be chaotic. Melville teaches us this. When the chase for the whale begins, people often lose their bearings. In times of turmoil, people can provoke bad behavior in one another simply by agitating the "delirious throb" inherent in chaos. A good leader, like a good Captain, helps navigate ships, and people, thr
The Daily Dick: A Study in Leadership
"My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all." The Study: Great leaders, it seems to me, help define the world. Today, we have a wall defined by Pres _rump as "impenetrable," and "great" and "beautiful." Dictionaries define a wall as "a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides." Divides is the operative word here. Great leaders do not seek to divide. Even Melvi
