Holding The Center
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Holding The Center
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Author : Richard Strozzi-Heckler
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2011-06-21
Holding The Center written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-21 with Sports & Recreation categories.
As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of Heckler’s lessons arise from his life as a householder and father. Community is a larger family—we make alliances to “take care of what matters to us.” But, as Heckler teaches, that takes listening to others with an open heart, and learning what the needs of others are.The world can be a sanctuary, if we find a balance between instinct and choice. Richard Strozzi Heckler sounds an important call about the interplay between power and generosity in these subtle and luminous essays.
Holding The Center
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Author : Eugene Goodheart
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-28
Holding The Center written by Eugene Goodheart and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-28 with Political Science categories.
Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise—the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter—without suggesting an alternative way. Polarization, when opposing forces are equal or close to equal in strength, leads to stalemate. Compromise threatens to betray one's conviction about what is essential. Ideally, a leader must combine conviction about what ought to be done with an open-minded awareness of unintended consequences.The social sciences are or should be based, largely, on the premise that people are historical and social beings. Holding the Center follows this tradition, while focusing on the trimming aspect. In nautical terms, trimming indicates an adjustment of one's vessel to accommodate one's environment. In politics, it is to find common ground between extremes, not for the sake of compromise, but because reason does not have a single location on the political spectrum.The twelve chapters in this book are brought together by Goodheart's argument that the Whig trimming tradition is the heart and soul of politics in the West, and that both democracy and democratic culture depend upon the trimming tradition's advocacy of toleration. What is needed now, he notes, is a transformation in our political culture in which humility and the admission of error enter the list of political virtues. Non-parliamentary democracy with its separation of powers depends for its proper functioning on compromise, especially in a time like ours of crisis and divided government.
Holding The Center
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Author : Howard Wesley Johnson
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2001-08-24
Holding The Center written by Howard Wesley Johnson and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Memoir of a former MIT President, as well as professor, corporate director, and advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations. Howard Wesley Johnson has been associated with MIT for more than forty years and been a major influence on the modernization and expansion of many of its programs. He will be most remembered as a management educator and as MIT's president during the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s. The title of his memoirs reflects his central, usually lonely position in those days, trying to hold together an institution often torn apart by the turmoil of the times. Johnson was more successful at navigating the minefields on campus than were many other college and university presidents, perhaps because he was always willing to listen to both sides and because his values were in the right place--against the war in Vietnam, in favor of increased participation in the university by women and minorities, and concerned about environmental issues. As a professor and administrator at MIT, a corporate director, and an advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations, Johnson consistently sought both to understand and to apply the principles of good management.
Why The Center Can T Hold A Diagnosis Of Puritanized America
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Author : Tom O'Neill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Why The Center Can T Hold A Diagnosis Of Puritanized America written by Tom O'Neill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” These words from Yeats's poem “The Second Coming” provide Why the Center Can't Hold with its organizing theme. And although Yeats was describing the grim atmosphere of post-World War I Europe, O'Neill regards the poem's pronouncements as eerily predictive of the state of the world as we are currently observing it. O'Neill takes them as predictive of the agency in particular of the United States--the “Center”--in bringing about in the world the more general chaos we are now observing (relative to various refugee and migrant crises, the emergence of sophisticated and even postmodern forms of militant and cyber terrorism, banking and other monetary crises, environmental catastrophes under the aegis of climate change, the defunding of public higher education, the persistence of virulent forms of racism and other types of intolerance, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, the marginalisation and even outright elimination of human labor forces, etc.). O'Neill provides historical analyses that illuminate why this is the case, and he also asks what changes in the United States -- in its politics, in its socio-cultural formations, and in its beliefs and (supposedly common) values -- might help us to avoid the inevitable (and lamentable) destruction that seems ahead.
Holding Center When I Don T Know What To Do
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Author : Christopher Alan Anderson
language : en
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Release Date : 2012-09-19
Holding Center When I Don T Know What To Do written by Christopher Alan Anderson and has been published by First Edition Design Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-19 with Family & Relationships categories.
What to do?--Our task will be to define a center anew that can hold things together when everything is falling apart. We must know why the center is the center to hold ourselves together.
Holding The Center
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Author : Lester M. Salamon
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
Release Date : 1997
Holding The Center written by Lester M. Salamon and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nonprofit organizations categories.
In this report, Lester M. Salamon examines four important challenges that confront key segments of the nonprofit sector and that raise fundamental questions about the sector's long-term character and health. Salamon identifies these challenges as the fiscal crisis, the economic crisis, the crisis of effectiveness, and the crisis of legitimacy. In clear, well-documented terms, Holding the Center provides crucial information that is needed to make informed judgments about the future of the nonprofit sector.
Why The Center Can T Hold
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Author : Tom O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2016
Why The Center Can T Hold written by Tom O'Neill and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." These words from Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" provide Why the Center Can't Hold with its organizing theme. And although Yeats was describing the grim atmosphere of post-World War I Europe, O'Neill regards the poem's pronouncements as eerily predictive of the state of the world as we are currently observing it. O'Neill takes them as predictive of the agency in particular of the United States-the "Center"-in bringing about in the world the more general chaos we are now observing (relative to various refugee and migrant crises, the emergence of sophisticated and even postmodern forms of militant and cyber terrorism, banking and other monetary crises, environmental catastrophes under the aegis of climate change, the defunding of public higher education, the persistence of virulent forms of racism and other types of intolerance, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, the marginalisation and even outright elimination of human labor forces, etc.). O'Neill provides historical analyses that illuminate why this is the case, and he also asks what changes in the United States - in its politics, in its socio-cultural formations, and in its beliefs and (supposedly common) values - might help us to avoid the seemingly inevitable (and lamentable) destruction that lies ahead.
The Center Will Hold
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Author : Christopher de Vinck
language : en
Publisher: Loyola Press
Release Date : 2020-05-15
The Center Will Hold written by Christopher de Vinck and has been published by Loyola Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with Religion categories.
2021 Illumination Book Awards, Gold Medal: Christian Living INTERPRETING THE PARABLES OF OUR LIVES By the time most of us reach adulthood, we have experienced enough to begin to understand our own personal narratives. It’s tempting to focus on discouragement or pessimism, even cynicism. But there’s a brighter, better way. In this collection of heartwarming true stories, Christopher de Vinck reminds us of life’s many graces, and he challenges us to embrace our experiences with hope, humor, gratitude, and wonder. Whether revisiting a boyhood hobby of photographing the neighborhood raccoon or musing upon the possible uses of a decades-old Santa suit, de Vinck takes his readers to scenes, sights, and sensations of the daily, ordinary gifts that are not so ordinary after all. Read The Center Will Hold to stir your own poignant memories, or share it with family and friends as an invitation to simple joy. Its pages speak with eloquence, in language common to us all: wisdom, light, and love.
Does The Center Hold
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Author : Donald Palmer
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Release Date : 1996
Does The Center Hold written by Donald Palmer and has been published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
A topically organized introductory philosophy text that takes the position that the study of philosophy is both natural and fun. The text includes separate chapters on philosophy of art, philosophy of freedom, and social and political philosophy.
The Center Could Not Hold Congressman William H English And His Antebellum Political Times
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Author : Elliott Schimmel
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-08-14
The Center Could Not Hold Congressman William H English And His Antebellum Political Times written by Elliott Schimmel and has been published by Atlantic Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William Hayden English of Indiana, congressman from 1853–1861, ended his official political career one and a half months before the attack on Fort Sumter. Though his name may not be as well known as other antebellum historical figures, he actively and influentially participated in all the major political events of the great drama that culminated in the most devastating war in American history. While this book is specifically a close analysis of one antebellum politician, it also acts as a comprehensive study by which one may examine not only the perspective and struggles of a single congressman, but also the contextual political environment that surrounded America’s descent into the great tragedy of the Civil War.