"We're human beings, not human 'doings.'" I heard that quote the other day from a motivational speaker we brought in to address a large group of le...

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Peter Block, in his book Community, challenges the conventional understanding of leadership by emphasizing it as a capacity that can be learned by any...

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Music is an end in and of itself. I have briefly considered this in other contexts, but this gentle truth brushed itself against my heart today while ...

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Peter Block's book Community (2008) focuses on shifting our "existing context of community from one of deficiencies, interests, and entitlement to one...

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I finally began using Twitter last night--I am at http://twitter.com/johnmdemarco. My approach to most social networks has been to observe from a dist...

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I have updated the descriptive header of this ongoing blog to better reflect my current perspectives on the purpose of my entries and the intended dia...

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The title of this blog was lodged in my mind before any particular content. It emerged from an impression more than any sort of journalistic research ...

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The other day at work I was talked into wearing a purple wig and singing parodies to popular 1980s songs such as "Billie Jean," "Who Can It Be Now" an...

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