Archive for the ‘Role Model’ Category

The high cost of peak performance

15th February 2010 by juliediamond No Comments

Last week the American Psychiatric Associations released a draft of DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The final version is set to come out in May 2013. It has a number of proposed revisions which have been widely blogged about, including a new diagnosis of hypersexuality. In just about every post I’ve [...]

Five Leadership Trends for the Next Decade

4th January 2010 by juliediamond No Comments

The last decade is a strong contender for the title “the decade of dubious leadership.” From the handling of Katrina to the collapse of the banking system, it was a disastrous decade for leadership. Ironically, it was also a decade during which more was written on leadership than ever before. I’m hoping for a better [...]

Role Models and Fallen Angels

6th May 2009 by juliediamond No Comments

Remember this Nike ad of Charles Barkley?

Barkley went on:
I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, “Don’t [...]

Politics, Power and Transparent Leadership

28th April 2009 by juliediamond No Comments

I started a Kids City Club for a group of fourth graders, as part of my work with the I Have a Dream Foundation in Oregon. Seven kids were chosen to participate in a series of activities to help them learn about government and how the city works. In one activity, we met with a [...]

Public Life, Private Selves

15th May 2008 by juliediamond No Comments

The following post begins to explore the question of abuse of power, or failures of power. In my earlier post I asked, can we learn how to use power well, like we learn how to ride a bike, or does power really have some corrupting influence? Which, if any, features related to high rank alters [...]