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Vortex Eudaimonia : productive joyful life
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| click ►▼, links, and ••• — December 8, 2011, 11 am Denver
explorersfoundation.org/eudaimonia.html — a vortex is a region of Explorers Foundation research and investment.
Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία) is a classical Greek word commonly translated as 'happiness'. Etymologically, it consists of the word "eu" ("good" or "well being") and "daimōn" ("spirit" or "minor deity", used by extension to mean one's lot or fortune). Although popular usage of the term happiness refers to a state of mind, related to joy or pleasure, eudaimonia rarely has such connotations, and the less subjective "human flourishing" is often preferred as a translation. —Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia
This vortex deals with these ideas as they apply to individuals, and also to their extension into the work of groups in every kind of venture or network collaboration. Good life depends not only on what you take into yourself, but also on what you choose to allow to surround yourself, including organizations that provide opportunity to employ your abilities, and providers of governance services.
The work of each of these people contributes in some significant way to the development of freeorder within single minds or among collaborating minds. All are highly recommended. -leif
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 | 08Dec11: added two articles by Bill Casey & Wendi Peck, of the Executive Leadership Group
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| "When Failure Leads to Innovation, and When It Doesn’t" ••• (the ELG weblog)
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 | Samuel Smiles, Self-Help, 1882 ••• (Lawrence Reed, in "The Freeman" Oct 2011); the book ••• (Gutenberg)
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| Modern History Sourcebook: Samuel Smiles: Self Help, 1882 ••• (Fordham University)
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 | "The object of the book briefly is, to re-inculcate these old-fashioned but wholesome lessons-which perhaps cannot be too often urged, that youth must work in order to enjoy,-that nothing creditable can be accomplished without application and diligence,-that the student must not be daunted by difficulties, but conquer them by patience and perseverance,-and that, above all, he must seek elevation of character, without which capacity is worthless and worldly success is naught. If the author has not succeeded in illustrating these lessons, he can only say that he has failed in his object."
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| The Tao of Roark •••, by Peter Saint-André
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| Bill Casey & Wendi Peck, Executive Leadership Group •••
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Two excellent articles: "When Failure Leads to Innovation, and When It Doesn’t" — the quest for error and making the best use of it when found is a key principle advocated by Explorers Foundation. Ideas such as these are proving useful to one of Executive Leadership's principal clients, the U. S. Navy. Both articles are on the ELG blog •••
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| Translations of Epicurus by Peter Saint-André
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| Letter to Menoeceus, by Epicurus — Peter Saint-André's translation, in progress •••
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| The Principal Doctrines, by Epicurus •••
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| "I’ve finished a draft of my final Epicurus translation: his Letter to Menoeceus. Now that I’ve rendered just about all of his ethical writings from Greek into English, I plan to weave them together with commentary into a short book entitled Epicurus on Happiness. Stay tuned for details." —from Peter's blog, One Small Voice •••
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| The Monadnock Press & Monadnock Review (1997-2002) •••
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| The Monadnock Press is an online publisher of public-domain texts that reflect our vision of human potential, with a special focus on the literature of freedom and the classics of Western civilization, the Anglosphere, and America.
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| Lara Ewing, Ewing & Associates •••
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In less turbulent times, your organization could get by with good, commonsense management. Current market conditions require optimal performance to survive, and exceptional leadership to thrive. You can’t afford to work around the blockages and waste precious talent on ineffective structure, careless strategy or less-than-complete leadership alignment.
We remove blockages, build synergy and unleash your organization’s pent-up resources to clarify direction and drive forward movement to growth and extraordinary performance.
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| Peter McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Company ••• —better energy, effectiveness, laughter, team-building
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| Positive Psychology in Business •••
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Peter McLaughlin is part of a vanguard group in the new field of Positive Psychology**
studying the role of positive emotions in business, such as optimism, zest, resilience, and gratitude. The research is clear: positive emotions help you live longer, have better health, work more productively, and make more money.
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| **The field Positive Psychology was spearheaded by Peter’s colleagues Martin Seligman, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania; and Chris Peterson, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
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| Emergenetics — the art of balancing brain styles to make good teams
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The Emergenetics Profile •••
Our personalities emerge from our genetics and are further shaped by our ongoing life experiences. Emergenetics is a unique and flexible approach to personality profiling that is based on the latest brain research.
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| Catchfire Café ••• Catchfire Video •••
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A small group of creative colleagues is developing an exciting program entitled “Adventures in Boomerland.” The program is being roughly targeted to individuals age 46 to 90 - individuals often referred to as “early boomers,” late boomers,” and “pre-boomers.”
The purpose of the program? To optimize one's journey through life's Third Age. The age that could well be the most rewarding and exciting time of one's life. To flourish, not languish in the last third of life.
The program is seeking people who are unafraid of change; who are insatiable in intellectual curiosity; who are interested in big things and small happinesses. People who intend to “go quietly into the night” need not apply.
The program, now in its nascent stages, will consist of hands-on workshops and retreats, web-based seminars, special tutorials, networking experiences, and appropriate products.
The objective is to instill a “leaping out of bed” feeling by optimizing participants' strengths rather than dwelling on their weaknesses. It will address the participants' physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs.
We'd like to know if such a program interests you.
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| Meg Biddle, Cartoonist •••
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| Meg Biddle, "Portait of the Artist As A Young Girl"
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| Youth Arts Collective, Monterey, California, a sanctuary and workspace for creative youth •••
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| Truth & Beauty ••• (a cartoon)
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| Jan Prince, speaker, NLP trainer
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| Pat Wagner, speaker, writer — leadership, effective management, supervision •••
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| Three programs done for The American Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA), a division of The American Library Association (ALA) •••
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| “The Executive-Decision Maker’s Secret Weapon – How You Can Make Better Choices with the Use of Graphic Models”
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| "The increased speed of change, along with new and shifting user expectations, and political and financial pressures, make decision-making more difficult, even for seasoned library leaders. Simple visual models can help capture useful (and sometimes slippery) data, better communicate issues to stakeholders, and earn trust and respect through transparency. Learn two time-tested models from the negotiation community, which can be applied and shared in many situations."
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| “Learn the Supervisor’s Balancing Act – How You Can Bring Out the Best in Your Top People Without Micromanagement”
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| "Library leaders might hesitate, with justification, to interfere with the work of top managers. After all, didn’t you promote, hire, or retain people with the experience and breadth of vision to run departments and buildings without micromanagement? However, even top managers have issues. Are they coordinating their efforts with their administrative team members? Are they consistently working within the parameters and priorities of the strategic plan? Are they modeling the best behaviors of civility and customer services? Are they growing their skills and changing along with the people they supervise? It is not that top managers don’t need supervision; it that the scope and direction is different."
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| “Make Your Library Dreams Come True – How to Use Project Management Techniques to Write a Strategic Plan”
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| "Why does a library’s strategic plan often fail? Because your overarching and ambitious abstract vision might not translate well into goals and priorities that make sense to the people who will be doing the day-to-day work. The secret is to use project management principles while creating the plan, including accountability and what is often called management overhead. Building in time and resources for operations–communication and trouble-shooting–at the beginning can ensure that the work gets done on time, under budget, at an agreed upon level of quality, and with everyone still speaking to each other."
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| Yasuhiko Kimura, Vision in Action •••
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| Leif Smith, Explorers Foundation
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| Weavers of Freeorder & Open Network •••
Thoughts on Wizards •••
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| 517 Ghiberti's lifework — Forty-Eight years making two sets of bronze doors — a pattern for living?
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| Participants in this vortex
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| Meg Biddle, Peter McLaughlin, Jan Prince, Peter Saint-André, Michael Strong, Pat Wagner, Leif Smith, Yasuhiko Kimura, M.L. Hanson
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| To be invited: Jessica Lipnack, Ben Leichtling, Stephanie West Allen, Olivier Tryba.
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