Since I started graduate school in 1997 I’ve appreciated the thoughtfulness that University of Chicago scholar Jean Bethke Elshtain has brought to bear on seemingly countless topics of faith and culture. In my most recent wanderings through an as yet unread book on faith and learning in my personal library (although I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit I [...]
Entries from July 2007
Scholarship and “Serving God Wittily”
July 8th, 2007 No Comments
Drucker on Integrity in Leadership
July 7th, 2007 No Comments
The spirit of an organization is created from the top.
The proof of the sincerity and seriousness of a management is uncompromising emphasis on integrity of character. This, above all, has to be symbolized is management’s “people” decisions. For it is character through which leadership is exercised; it is character that sets the example and is [...]
Witherspoon on the Purposes of Education
July 6th, 2007 No Comments
A fair portion of my Ph.D. dissertation is on the history of higher education in the United States. In my research I came across the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon’s account of the College of New Jersey (e.g., Princeton) where he served as president beginning in 1768. Given my roles at the Chick-fil-A sponsored IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) [...]