Year: 2020
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Xūramitra New Dharma Lay Ordained Name
Recently, I took lay ordination at the Monastic Academy (MAPLE) under the head teacher Soryu Forall and Shinzen Young. We took the vows in an evening ceremony lasting a little over an hour with six others taking ordination as well. Shinzen video conferenced in from his home out in Arizona. Lay ordination means to take…
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Why don’t we have more leaders?
So, we continue our series on Leadership. In the first post, we defined Leadership as the skill of power to bring individuals together towards a vision. We defined different forms of leadership and argued that the best leadership power involves earning the respect of your followers rather than only relying on delegated power derived from…
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Leadership vs Management
This is a continuing series on Leadership Development In my previous post, I defined what is a leader. I said a leader is someone who uses the skill of power over others towards a vision. The key pieces here being that leadership is a skill that one can get better at. And that leadership involves…
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What is a Leader? (new series)
For a series of posts, I am exploring the topic of leadership. What is it? Why is leadership important? Why do we have such a hard time with leadership development? How do you train leadership? This is an important question because the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth (MAPLE) is a mindfulness…