On better (or less bad) management, and the need for better world leadership

One of the many arguments I lost during my day work career, was pointing out the dangers of compelling people to change passwords frequently. 

After many years of activism from many people - including experts, someone in officialdom is FINALLY listening .... 

See: 

“Rejoice! The charade of having to change our passwords every few months is coming to an end”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/09/charade-change-passwords-cyberattacks   “The US government is finally admitting there’s no need – instead, to fend off cyber-attacks we need passwords that are long but memorable”     

That it has taken so long is an indication of the flawed capabilities of people in management - and in professions, such as the electrical engineer who not only refused to concede that people bought solar panels to save the planet, not money, but threatened me (which management refused to act on) for pointing that out. 

That denialistic fervour is a good lead in to the other article I wish to post about, which is the first of two MeidasTouch Network videos reporting on   “The World Mental Health Coalition's major conference 'THE MORE DANGEROUS STATE OF THE WORLD AND THE NEED FOR FIT LEADERSHIP' with Dr Bandy Lee and 17 experts”, which includes a particular focus on Trump.   

See: 

“World Doctors Take LAST MINUTE ACTION against Trump”   https://youtu.be/vr55vKYj57c     

 

 

PS - see also: 

“From the Storm to the Stormtroopers”   https://snyder.substack.com/p/from-the-storm-to-the-stormtroopers   “The Fascist Logic of Climate Lying”      and   “A first reaction to Timothy Snyder’s new book “On Freedom””   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-first-reaction-to-timothy-snyders-new.html     

“The Axis of Tyranny in America and Russia”   https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-axis-of-tyranny-in-america-and   “Trump and Putin are stronger allies than we even knew. This is bad news for Ukraine if Trump wins the election, and bad news for American democracy.”     

“WHY? #WHY2040”   https://youtu.be/DBuj4oKy79o   which is part of the   Bulletproof Dreams Exhibition https://www.youtube.com/@bproofdreams   and is VERY powerful     

and 

“Revealed: University of Sydney spent millions more on consultants than repaying wages of casual staff | Australian universities | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/10/revealed-university-of-sydney-spent-millions-more-on-consultants-than-repaying-wages-of-casual-staff   “Greens say revelations a ‘damning indictment’ that speak to a ‘broken governance culture’ at prestigious universities”   The consultants were   “for calculating and administering liability for wage underpayments and a review of its systems than it has paid out to staff”     

 

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

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Some inspiration for the national ALP ...

I think I found some inspiration for the national ALP from the West Wing’s Series 3, Episode 7 “Gone Quiet”.  

At around 34:28 - 35:00 the character Oliver Babbish says: 

“...but this investigation isn't about that. Its about the criminalisation of politics. An attempt to do in a hearing room what they couldn’t do at the ballot box.   ...   Truth isn't a luxury. You’re going to go in there, you’re going to swear an oath, you’re going to get asked questions, you’re going to tell the truth. It’s the way you stand up and say, “Stop!””

 

At around 35:45 - 36:46, the Bruno Gianelli character says: 

“... ’cause I’m tired of working for candidates who make me think I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe.   ...   We all need some therapy because somebody came along and said liberal means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on Communism, soft on defence. And we’re going to tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn’t go to work if they don’t want to. And instead of saying “Well, excuse me, you right wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti-choice, pro-gun, Leave it to Beaver trip back to the ’50s”, we cowered in the corner and said, “Please don't hurt me””

 

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

If they are of any use or interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post.  

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below. 

Note that, as with my main blog [see here], I am cutting back on aspects of my posts.

Remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing, and all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering”.

Copyright © Kayleen White 2016-2024     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike basis   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/  

 

 

Heart and head, and leadership

Something I come across fairly often is the framing of a contest between thinking and feeling - i.e., head (thoughts) vs. heart (emotions). 

That is a mis-framing. 

For best function in all of life, we need both to work together. 

In situations of extreme stress, the conflict proponents often say something along the lines of “but we need to be calm!” 

Yes. And calmness is an EMOTION.

Being loud and/or aggressive about the need to be calm is exhibiting other emotions - possibly including panic, anger, overwhelm, and fear - fear of emotions, specifically - or even hysteria (especially some of the old male dinosaurs I have had to work with during my former engineering career).

Karla  McLaren is, in my opinion, probably the best source on the lessons that emotions have for us, but consider the following points: 

• the person with experience at working constructively with emotions will be far more likely to be faster at achieving a state of calmness in an emergency, and will be far more likely to do so with less emotional damage to themselves and/or others; 

• the person who is competent with emotions is less likely to get businesses into trouble through amathiac misconceptions about “having to be tough” in their decision making; 

• the person with experience at working constructively with emotions will be far more likely to build stronger, adaptable and more effective teams, as they will be better suited to the reality that people are all different;
  

• the person who is competent with emotions is going to be far better at being aware of, identifying, and managing dangerous, destructive or problematic emotions - such as the various forms of bigotry, dangerous risk taking, and toxic characteristics.
  

There are lessons for this in activism as well, in my opinion (such as adapting messages to the audience, avoiding emotional traps [especially civility traps], and mutual respect to avoid doing the work of the oppressor), but that can wait for another post.

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

If you appreciated this post, please consider promoting it - there are some links below.

Remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing, and all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering”.

Copyright © Kayleen White 2016-2024     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike basis   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/