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Controlling Medical Costs by Knowing the Purpose of a Hospital

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On Friday we discussed Rudy Giulian’s point that leadership involves applying a well-thought-out set of beliefs to the real world. Then we gave education as one example. Health care is another good example that Giuliani gives, also from his book Leadership: I practiced the same discipline in examining the purpose of New York City’s hospitals […]

Educating Students or Protecting Jobs?

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After discussing how the job of leadership entails applying beliefs to real-world situations, Giuliani gives the New York City school system as an example of how this works out: The New York City school system was never really going to improve until its purpose, its core mission, was made clear. What the system should have […]

Applying Strengths to Parenting and Education

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The underlying philosophy in most of the school systems I’ve encountered (growing up and as a parent, with one notable exception) seems to be based on the assumption that a student’s greatest opportunities for growth are in his areas of weakness. Obviously students do need to develop their skills in areas where they don’t demonstrate […]

The Biggest Sin in Your Church

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A recent post by Ed Stetzer. Here are two paragraphs from it: If I preach about gay marriage, everybody cheers. If I preach about sin you can hear the amens ring. But those aren’t the real problems. I tell people that the biggest sin in our church is you sitting there doing nothing and still […]

Life After Death: The Evidence

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Dinesh D’Souza’s new book Life After Death: The Evidence is out. Sean McDowell reviews the book in a recent post. Here are the first two paragraphs of his review: Is death the end, or is there something more? Does life continue after the grave? According to Dinesh D’Souza, in his new book Life After Death: […]

Systems Trump Mission Statements; Culture Trumps Systems

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A few months ago I blogged on how systems trump intentions because systems create behaviors. In discussing the attempted Christmas bombing plot, Dave Logan makes the good case that the reality goes one step further: culture trumps systems. Hence, no amount of systemic change will ultimately solve the problems that led to the security breach […]

The Sum of Good Government

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Well stated by Thomas Jefferson in his first Inaugural Address in 1801: A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is […]

Should We Change Calendars?

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The Wall Street Journal recently had an enjoyable article on different alternatives to the Gregorian calendar that have been put forth to try and solve some of the idiosyncrasies of our current system. (I personally find some of the idiosyncrasies of our calendar to be a good thing — it provides variety.)

On Architecture and Physics

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This is a good word, quoted in If Aristotle Ran General Motors: Architecture is about the good, the true, and the beautiful in our edifices and landscapes, and physics is about the good, the true, and the beautiful in nature.