Hello. I'm Craig Engstrom. I'm a business communication coach.

Cosmology Episodes

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Air France Flight 447

Video of AF 447

Yarnell Fire; Comprehensive report

Three Mile Island 

Cosmology averted: Miracle in the Hudson; Aircraft Carriers 

We’re discussion leadership in my Case Studies in Organizational Communication course tonight. We’ll be watching these two TED talks to frame the discussion of constitutive leadership, the idea that leadership is an outcome of communication contexts, symbols, orientations, and so forth.

As Work Gets More Complex: Six Rules to Simplify by Yves Morieux

A Gentler Kinder Philosophy of Success by Antoine de Button

The second video is more a philosophical talk, which I think helps us orient towards rhetorical situations in such a way that people can feel included (a leaderly thing to do).

Two articles worth reading to add even more substance to the conversation:

The Evils of Meritocracy