Conscious Creator
My friend Kris Krohn has written a new book this year that is a MUST READ. It is called the Conscious Creator: 6 Laws For Manifesting Your Masterpiece Life. Steve Palmer sent me a copy of this book months ago when it first came out and it sat on my shelf until last week when […]
The Importance of Being in Over YOUR HEAD
The following is an excerpt from the book The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson. I was eating lunch with a friend who has a PhD in leadership development. I asked him, “Based on all your research and experience, what would you say is the most important secret to developing world-class leaders?” He put his fork […]
That Which is Seen and That Which is Not
The President of the United States believes that our role in the global community is to punish the Syrian government for military strikes on Syrian civilians resulting in hundreds of deaths and diminishing the Assad regime’s ability to deploy biological agents in the future. Whether or not it is the duty of the U.S. to […]
The Monticello College Campus Construction Progresses In Spite of the Recession
A miracle occurred last month at the Campus of Monticello College. With a very small crew and limited resources, over 130 yards of concrete was poured for the foundation and floor for the 5,000 square foot commercial kitchen and dining hall. We are constructing all of the buildings on campus to last at least […]
Cloward-Piven Strategy
I can’t help it. I seriously tried to make myself shorten this excellent 2005 article by Richard Poe but I can’t. It is 4,500 words but very informative and explanatory of the times. RICHARD POE is an award-winning journalist and a New York Times-bestselling author. His journalistic writings focus on human rights, liberty, abuse of power and the rule of law. His fiction writing is mainly […]
The Present Crisis
This week’s post is the Monticello College Hymn or official poem. Although written 169 years ago, the nature of humanity does not change and the emotional and spiritual state of human beings as a whole rarely changes–which makes this poem as applicable today as it was a century and a half ago. The Present Crisis […]
My Two College Experiences
Our post this week is by a Monticello College student. Brandon Mitchell sent me his experiences with higher education on 1/26/2013. Shortly after high school, like many kids my age I started attending the local state university to get training for my career. I took a few introduction classes in accounting and computer science to decide which […]
What Would Socrates Do?
This post is a tribute to Earl Shorris, one of my favorite writers on education who passed away in 2012. I am reprinting the April 16, 2013 Wall Street Journal Book Review of his latest book, The Art of Freedom. This piece was written by Naomi Schaefer Riley. In The Art of Freedom, Earl Shorris describes his efforts […]
The Reality of Disruptive Innovation
Are technology and education merging or fighting each other? This post explores how business development and disruptive innovation impacts education. 15 years ago Clayton Christensen published a best selling book entitled The Innovator’s Dilemma. Christensen is considered a leader in the field of business development especially in times of vast technological advancement and improvement. Christensen […]
The Charles Schulz Philosophy
Although this philosophy has often been attributed to the creator of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, there is no evidence that he actually penned it. Regardless who the author is, it still makes my point. In our capacities as fathers and mothers, family protectors, and business decision makers, we all have to measure other people. […]