Comments on: The jugglers http://managingleadership.com/blog/2009/03/17/the-jugglers/ The strategic role of the senior executive Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:35:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Gluck http://managingleadership.com/blog/2009/03/17/the-jugglers/comment-page-1/#comment-8412 Peter Gluck Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:45:39 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=2121#comment-8412 Dear Jim, Thank you, I am waiting for your further ideas re intellectuals. By the way, I am an old chemical engineer not exactly what is called a genuine intellectual. I see this problem in the context of some greater issues as for example the wisdom of crowds vs.opinion of experts. It is my great pleasure to discuss with you these important problems. All my best wishes, Peter PS It is not easy to write in this window, sorry, so excuse me please for the typos. Dear Jim,
Thank you, I am waiting for your further ideas re intellectuals.
By the way, I am an old chemical engineer not exactly what is called a genuine intellectual.
I see this problem in the
context of some greater issues as for example the wisdom of crowds vs.opinion of experts.
It is my great pleasure to discuss with you these important problems.
All my best wishes,
Peter

PS It is not easy to write in this window, sorry, so excuse me please for the typos.

]]> By: Jim Stroup http://managingleadership.com/blog/2009/03/17/the-jugglers/comment-page-1/#comment-8411 Jim Stroup Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:35:24 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=2121#comment-8411 Hello Peter, Thank you for your visit and your kind comments about the blog, generally. I must say that I don't accept the premise underlying your comments about intellectuals, particularly in today's world, but I do take your points that I haven't made it clear what I wanted to say and why I was saying it. As it happens, the same source that prompted yesterday's post has suggested another, which I will probably publish today. I will try to make the answers to these questions more clear, and hope to hear what you have to say about it. Thanks again! Hello Peter,

Thank you for your visit and your kind comments about the blog, generally.

I must say that I don’t accept the premise underlying your comments about intellectuals, particularly in today’s world, but I do take your points that I haven’t made it clear what I wanted to say and why I was saying it.

As it happens, the same source that prompted yesterday’s post has suggested another, which I will probably publish today. I will try to make the answers to these questions more clear, and hope to hear what you have to say about it.

Thanks again!

]]> By: Peter Gluck http://managingleadership.com/blog/2009/03/17/the-jugglers/comment-page-1/#comment-8409 Peter Gluck Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:13:39 +0000 http://managingleadership.com/blog/?p=2121#comment-8409 Dear Friend, I am constant reader of your papers and I will take this opportunity to thank you for the excellent job you are doing at Managing Leadeship. I have learned a lot from them. And they are interesting, well written. However today's "The Jugglers" is a surprise and NOT a pleasant one. Regarding it I have 2 questions: - what do you want to tell? -why are you telling it? I think that we all need intellectuals, really enlightened ones because the world is dominated by the destructive triadof Greed, Violence and Stupidity- the results are known. There is no place for intellectuals in Mediocristan but actually we live in Extremistan and Reason, Realism, Pragmatism can save us. It is an other, painful problem, the treason of the intellectuals, the postmodernist idea that all modesof thinking- rational or irrational have the same right to exist- that's an intellectual crime. Please read this too: http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/WhyAntiInt.htm Egalitarinism, populism lead to disasters. I think you owe some explanations to your readers. Best wishes, Peter Dear Friend,
I am constant reader of your papers and I will take this opportunity to thank you for
the excellent job you are doing
at Managing Leadeship. I have
learned a lot from them.
And they are interesting, well
written.
However today’s “The Jugglers”
is a surprise and NOT a pleasant one. Regarding it I have 2 questions:
- what do you want to tell?
-why are you telling it?

I think that we all need intellectuals, really enlightened
ones because the world is dominated by the destructive
triadof Greed, Violence and
Stupidity- the results are known.
There is no place for intellectuals in Mediocristan
but actually we live in Extremistan and Reason, Realism,
Pragmatism can save us.
It is an other, painful problem,
the treason of the intellectuals,
the postmodernist idea that all modesof thinking- rational or
irrational have the same right
to exist- that’s an intellectual
crime.
Please read this too:

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/WhyAntiInt.htm

Egalitarinism, populism lead to
disasters.
I think you owe some explanations
to your readers.
Best wishes,
Peter

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