Walter Truett Anderson Professions : Political Scientist Born : February 27, 1933 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Walter Truett Anderson We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up. Walter Truett Anderson hero ideas moving One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine. Walter Truett Anderson growing-up self challenges I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality. Walter Truett Anderson abnormal fire reality The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew. Walter Truett Anderson agriculture hunting simple We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain. Walter Truett Anderson player wise moving Similar Authors Andrew Hacker political-scientist Andrew Kohut political-scientist Andrew Bacevich political-scientist Alan Wolfe political-scientist Iris Marion Young political-scientist Achille Mbembe political-scientist All Authors
