2005 Issue

There are many ways of classifying leaders.  One way I find particular useful to our current situation in the Philippines is based on a scheme developed by the American sociologist Amitai Etzioni.  He differentiates leaders by the type of power they use and the kind of compliance they elicit from those they govern. He says … Read more

When one approaches retirement, the desire to communicate life’s lessons to one’s children tends to grow in proportion to their own increasing wish to be left alone to design their own lives.  I suppose it is as it should be, for the problems our children will face are not necessarily going to be the same … Read more