I had a lot of trouble with engineers because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view and then learning how to perform that function.
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically they grow exponentially.
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.
A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory followership and an educated morally grounded leadership.
The function of the politician therefore is one of continuous watchfulness and activity and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
What guides Marxism then is a different model of society and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society and act in accordance with that decision only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
Without self knowledge without understanding the working and functions of his machine man cannot be free he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex and the foundation of intelligence.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence his noblest function is the search for truth.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.