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Listening to Silence

Asher Bey's latest post at The Guru's Handbook is worth a special mention. Listening to Silence starts with a recommendation to teachers of all kinds to listen to your students and then proceeds to the reality that this often means listening to silence. As someone who has in the past often rushed to fill that silence, I am pleased to have the chance to relearn that lesson. Posted: 11/4/06; 11:54:27 PM #

Choosing a Bulk Email Software to Match Your Communication Goals

Here's the thing that's great about Idealware's article on Choosing a Bulk Email Software to Match Your Communication Goals: They have provided you with an annotated checklist of requirements, rather than recommended a few systems with which they happen to be familiar (which is a common model). I'm hoping that this gives organizations one more tool to help them be clear about their communication needs before diving into software. Posted: 11/4/06; 11:51:04 PM #

Beware the Hubris-Nemesis Complex: A Concept for Leadership Analysis

David Ronfeldt's 1994 paper entitled Beware the Hubris-Nemesis Complex (60 page PDF) is available in full online from the Rand Corporation. One core of this concept is that a leader's greatest mistakes will happen within the area of their greatest competence. The current political expressions of this are almost too obvious to mention and I certainly have examples from my own life, but I would be most interested in how funders approach this issue in civil society. Posted: 11/4/06; 11:46:00 PM #