Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Nature of Freedom

"Freedom is never a release and always a responsibility". Peter F. Drucker

Action: "List specific goals in your work. Think of goals that will meet your need for personal fulfillment, while also helping your boss (shareholder) meet his or her performance objectives. Sell these goals to your boss and keep the boss informed of your progress." Peter F. Drucker

Once you have undertaken the Action today, you will, of course, be right in the middle of the awesome dilemma which Dr. Drucker describes. There is no freedom without responsibility. What's so great about freedom anyways? Nothing but stress and trouble...? I'm being somewhat facile, but you get the point.

Once we have made our choice, be it belief, action, philosophy, are we then still free? Isn't the only freedom absolute anarchy? Or is it that we have to actually have to give up 'freedoms' to be free? I'm sure St. Thomas Aquinas has played with that one. I just started reading him. ANybody out there got his viewpoint down?

Enjoyed the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Now for the competition, may the best slider/gliders win: Go USA... Go Canada... Go Austria...

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