Author: Joe Kaempf

Complementarity caught my reading-eye in the attached article from David Hunter, for two distinct reasons. Epidemiology-driven advances in public health (clean water, vaccines, rural…

Part 2 – If friend or family happen to ask “Who do you think is the 20th C’s greatest philosopher?” Let’s remain with the…

If friend or family happens to ask me “Who do you think is the 20th C’s greatest philosopher?” my first response is “It depends upon…

It’s not consciousness that distinguishes humans from animals, it’s language.  By language we mean sophisticated vocals, symbolic marks (writing), and art (especially music).  Can…

Amidst the flurry of electronics that discomposes our lives, I find content reading forgotten heroines and heroes (well, forgotten to my many limitations).  …

You do look son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay’d.  Be cheerful sir. Our revels now are ended.  These our actors,…

From Marvin Weisbord’s Productive Workplaces, he of Six Box Theory,…..reflecting upon his career and theory of creating meaningful organizational change: I would do this…

Heroes and Heroines – Part 1 Recall from school-days the “Great Man Theory of History”, credited to Thomas Carlyle from the 19th C.  History, he wrote, was…

The world is my idea.  This proposition is a truth for every living and thinking being, though only Mankind can bring it to the…

Words – Part 4 Just where no ideas are, the proper word is never far. Men usually believe if only they hear words, that…