If you are not already a David Brooks fan, run, don’t walk, to read today’s New York Times column entitled “The New Humanism.” Brooks lays out with clarity and grace the way our culture fails to value— or even recognize—the totality of a human being in many of our social structures and ways of interacting.
At meetings above all else, we are not disembodied heads around a table, but full persons. If the atmosphere and structure of a meeting fail to recognize the importance of the non-conscious, the emotional, and the unspoken aspects of the people attending, that meeting will accomplish far less than it could or should.
Jurassic Parliament has been talking about this side of leadership and meeting management for ten years. It gives me hope to see a nationally recognized figure writing and speaking about this dimension of our humanity.
Ann G. Macfarlane, PRP
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