Center for
International Leadership, Inc.
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The Values and Ethics Seminars were designed with one key purpose in mind: to bring participants back to the basics, presenting them with a set of difficult-to answer questions, touching on the spiritual and intellectual aspects of human behavior.
- Are freedom and bread compatible?
- What is the price of freedom?
- What concessions must human beings make in order to be fed?
- What is conflict? Is it a burst of clashing ideas?
- What are ideas? They are the children of human creativity, of human genius.
- Why would we want to eliminate creativity in order to avoid conflict?
"What distinguishes the Seminar on Culture and Values from typical management courses is both the content and the process used. Lecturing is minimized and the focus is on debate, discussion and confrontation, which can become quite heated. It is through this creative clash of ideas that new insight can be gained on the issues being examined." — Volvo AB, Sweden
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Such questions permeate the entire experience. The readings, encompassing excerpts from classical and contemporary literature, were selected in order to underline the never-ending quest for answers and knowledge. Plato commanded enlightened leaders to descend to the darkest corners of the human cave in order to share their enlightenment with cave dwellers. Immanuel Kant, two millennia later, linked enlightenment with freedom: one cannot be a slave, someone dependent on others, and be enlightened at the same time. Thus, the Platonic concept of the ultimate light that men constantly strive to reach is present in Kant's essay. The beauty of this eternal quest rests in the fact that the light will never be reached. Once perceived, it will point to the higher road, to another sun on the firmament of human desires.
"Human creativity-that creativity which causes tensions, frictions, wars, but also provides the meaning of life-remains the most precious gift from heaven."
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