Archives for September, 2004

Disciplined As a Symphony


There is an excellent new article over at Knowledge@Wharton, Teamwork in a Shock Trauma Unit: New Lessons in Leadership. This is an lesson in what can happen when even one member of the team is out of sync.

I was at a symphony a few weeks ago and marveled at the precision and team work that [...]

A Metaphysical Realization


There is a magnificent essay by Schopenhauer in which he asks, how is it that a human being can so participate in the peril or pain of another that without thought, spontaneously, he sacrifices his own life to the other? How can it happen that what we normally think of as the first law of [...]