This is a little piece we did for our friends Dr. Chris Farrell (a biologist) and Jason Atkins (an ecologist) at Trevecca Nazarene University. The two of them have developed a great relationship with an inner city middle school down the street from the university and are helping teach them about sustainable urban agriculture. They asked us to cover some of the highlights from their lesson to show to the rest of the middle school. It was fun to see the young students interacting with all the neat stuff in their greenhouse. [click to continue…]
I am an inveterate fan of Peter Drucker. I think God gave him one of the extraordinary minds of the 20th-century and that his contribution to the world has not yet been truly calculated.† He was a self-designated “social ecologist,” which is a much more accurate descriptive than that of “management guru” or even “father of modern management” that most people today like to apply to him. What fascinates me about Drucker was his ability to sum up the necessary structures in business and organizational life in such an efficient way. I think that most books on business and management written after him are simply footnotes to something he said with greater succinctness and clarity. [click to continue…]
