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Summary: This is an article about the relationship of a mother-daughter pair from China to USA, about the sacrifices that they've had to make & being torn between loyalties of two countries that have rejected them & how they've coped.

Questions:

- What do you think is the reason behind the CCP's expectation of their people that has then been internalised into the people?

- On the metaphor of parenthood: How did Jiayang's mother exercise leadership? How did she fail & succeed? Is there something human in her failure?

- What was Jia Yang's mother trying to hold on to, even as she was being debilitated by the circumstances of ALS?

- How does Jiayang's advocacy on the behalf of her mother relate to you, your role as a leader? How might you have been privileged, the same way Jiayang was privileged?

This was Rosie's article that she sent to us this morning (9th September).

Summary: Contrary to popular belief, stongmen authoritarian leaders are not doing well during this crisis. The author believes that this is because their rise to power depends upon locating genius within themselves, and that they've only been able to demonstrate this through resolving problems with solutions that they've created.

Questions:

- Why do people want to cower behind strong men during times of crises (adaptive challenges)?

- What does this say about people under strong men? Or about us in general?

- In order to elect less strong men, what do you think needs to be done on a populace level?

- Come up with suggestions of how we can engage populace to take on adaptive challenges alongside leaders.

- What kind leaders do to create spaces for co-creating solutions with an engaged populace?

Interesting article. What adaptive challenges does it raise?