Issues / In Memorium / August-November 2015
Tom Thresher
May 6th 1949 – July 9th 2015
I first made contact with Tom Thresher in 2009. Russ Volckmann, the Publisher of Integral Publishers, passed me his email address and phone number along with a message along the lines, “… I think you two should chat.” I waited a few days before dropping him an email. In the back of my mind was this conversation saying, “What’s a nice Jewish Boy like you going to say to …
In Memorium / August-November 2015
A UCC pastor and an Episcopal priest walk into an Irish pub…or into a trattoria…or into a fish-and-chips joint…we did all three and more actually, Tom Thresher and I did. And even though we never got around to writing the rest of the joke, the humor was never lost on either of us. Tom’s book title, “Reverent Irreverence,” captures the tone of nearly all of our conversations over the course of the eight or nine years that we …
In Memorium / August - November 2014
Richard A. Couto
James MacGregor Burns, Jim to everyone who knew whom outside of the pages of his prodigious scholarship, passed away in his sleep on July 15th, three weeks short of his 96th birthday. He had been in declining health for several years but maintained his scholarly engagement publishing four new books in the past five years!
It is his 1978 work, Leadership¸ that those of us in the field of leadership studies remember him best …
In Memorium / August - November 2014
Russ Volckmann
I met Warren Bennis on Muir Beach in Northern California. It was soon after he had a heart attack. He was trotting in the sand as part of his rehabilitation. Must have been about 1980. I was participating in Will Shutz’s first Human Element training with about 20 other people. We were on a break on the beach and Bennis came along and greeted Will, who then introduced us.
I think of Warren Bennis as a Rennaisance Man …