Jon Hartmann

Praxis

Techne Over Mania
The Greeks split making into techne, the craft you can teach, and mania, the inspiration you can't. AI made mania cheap. The craft is the whole job now.
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The Pope & The Infinite Game
The Pope has a moral framework. Aristotle would not be surprised.
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Neurotic Leadership
Why the corporate ideal of the unflappable leader is incompatible with becoming a better one
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The Glass Cage and The Chinese Room
How do we operate with agency in a world of agents?
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Number Go Up. Number Good?
Top-line numbers are seductive, but they shouldn't guide your decisions.
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A Business That Makes Nothing But Money
What Henry Ford Understood About Business: Why Meaning Comes Before Money
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From Theory to Practice
What Aristotle had to say about installing the discipline of action in your organization.
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The Mean and the System
How Aristotle defined what is right and how organizations support finding it.
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The Knowing-Doing Gap
An Aristotlian Lesson on Why Virtue Cannot Be Taught. Part 1 in a series examining Aristotle's lessons on praxis from Nichimachean Ethics.
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A Girl From Arizona
How The Good Place's Eleanor Shellstrop demonstrates that praxis, and ethical leadership, develops through repeated, imperfect effort.
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The Hollow Performance of Dyspraxis
How organizations mistake ritual for progress and theater for substance.
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Atticus Finch and the Discipline of Ethical Action
Few characters in American literature are as closely associated with moral courage as Atticus Finch.
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