Separating the facts from their meaning
Hannah Arendt, Bernard-Henri Levy and Karl Popper

Separating the facts from their meaning

If you have followed my 'Taking Care of the Present' Blog for any length of time you will know of my commitment to evidence-informed policy and advocacy, so you won’t be surprised that I like to share resources and thinking which promote those positions.

Bernard-Henri Levy’s recent article in Project Syndicate, Google, Fake News, and the Crisis of Truth, is one such resource, which offers further insights into the ‘war on truth’ currently being played out in various political arenas and via social media.

Read more ...

要查看或添加评论,请登录

Garry Pearson OAM FIML MAICD MICDA的更多文章

  • Ethical Communications

    Ethical Communications

    Nonprofit organisations generally have communication and social media policies to guide their spokespeople and staff on…

    1 条评论
  • New Associateship

    New Associateship

    I am delighted to advise that I have entered into an Associateship agreement with Intersect Global Partners (IGP), and…

    2 条评论
  • Balancing 'long' and 'short' strategic perspectives

    Balancing 'long' and 'short' strategic perspectives

    The ‘strategic horizon‘ most nonprofits use is between 3-5 years. That seems to be about as far into the future as we…

  • Juggling cats, chainsaws, and bowling balls

    Juggling cats, chainsaws, and bowling balls

    Leadership roles often requires a capacity to deal with multiple challenges. Consequently, we need to be able to share…

  • The Skilful Uses of Silence

    The Skilful Uses of Silence

    In the ‘noisy’ world of advocacy, negotiations, and relationship-building within the nonprofit sector, words are often…

  • Prosocial Parallels – Cooperation and Kindness

    Prosocial Parallels – Cooperation and Kindness

    Nonprofit organisations are in the cooperation business. Nothing we achieve is accomplished without cooperation in one…

  • Rhetorical repetition, reiteration, and redundancy

    Rhetorical repetition, reiteration, and redundancy

    How many of us have irritated an audience with ill-judged or unthinking repetition? For myself, I plead guilty as…

  • Reactive, Responsive, & Proactive Leadership

    Reactive, Responsive, & Proactive Leadership

    A recent exploration of thinking styles (see The [mind] map is not the territory) included a reference to automatic…

    1 条评论
  • Cultivating cultural competence & social cohesion

    Cultivating cultural competence & social cohesion

    Social identity, cultural competence, and social cohesion are related concepts that are sometimes poorly understood…

  • Divergent Thinking is a Pre-requisite for Convergent Thinking

    Divergent Thinking is a Pre-requisite for Convergent Thinking

    Whether we call it analysis/synthesis or differentiation/integration, we swap iteratively between divergent and…

    3 条评论

社区洞察

其他会员也浏览了