Episodes
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
All leadership implies power but does power explain what leadership is? From a Catholic perspective leadership requires principle. Saul Alinsky would disagree. In Chapter 6 of his book, “Rules For Radicals”, Alinsky lays out a very powerful description of leadership without principle. What does the Christian have to say in response?
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Regardless of what we have to say, our ability to say it is equally important. If we cannot express what we have inside no one will listen to us anyway. This is the great intuition of Saul Alinsky in “Rules For Radicals” where he outlines the words used by organizers, the education necessary for an organizer, and highlights the importance of their ability to communicate. How does this relate to the Gospel?
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Does a good end justify the means taken to get there? Our leaders authorized to do the good “no matter what” by any means necessary – even means that are wrong? Can we judge something as being wrong when it actually produces something that is good? These questions are central to the question of leadership and the decisions we have to make as leaders. Our Lord in the Gospel gives and answer to these questions. So does Saul Alinsky in Chapter 2 of his book “Rules For Radicals.” Let’s compare the two.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
DGT Episode 122 - Saul Alinsky, Unbridled Power - The Anti-Leaders Part 6
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Christ calls us to be leaders, but what exactly is the point of the leadership to which He calls us? In Saul Alinsky’s, “Rules For Radicals,” he presents a vision of leadership devoid of an ultimate end goal. Instead he insists on the ultimate relationship between leadership and the power to wield it. Couldn’t this be a Catholic moment? Isn’t this an opportunity for us to build a bridge with his thought?