March Forth, 2016

What kind of organization changes the world? How do women in organizations achieve leadership roles?  What questions do I want to ask about the relationship of feminism to leadership?  I have a few, but I need to prioritize where to explore.  How do women in leadership use rhetoric differently than men in leadership?

And why am I asking these questions?

I am asking because I've been thinking of the parallels between rhetoric and leadership, and I will be writing about this over the next couple of weeks.  Get this, we're building websites instead of writing papers. I LOVE this (duh).

I started wanting to explore this connection after reading about Kotter's Eight Step Change Model (I think that's what it is called (?)) in Terri Scandura's Essentials of Organizational Behavior, in the chapter on organizational change.   I noticed that the first step to create change is to create a sense of urgency.

Creating a sense of urgency reminds me of the idea of exigence in rhetoric. Exigence is like the reason. Rhetoric about the future is sometimes called "deliberative oratory."  I hope you're not bored!

I'm gathering my thoughts which will ultimately go on another website. I'm delayed on this, as I want a good title.  I feel that the best title for a website is nonsensicalifornia, though, and someone is already using it.  

Is the user you or me?  

Where did you put the poetry?

Is nonsensicalifornia audience, author, space, or medium?  

I realize this is a ridiculous question

A book is not its author. But did my query resonate? Is there something about my calling it otherwise that changes the case?

Also I can't stop aprendiendo mas palabras

Tambien no puedo terminar hablando en español. 

jk i can pero no quiero

I also sort of started trying to learn French. I'm using Duolingo. It's cool but honestly, I think I'd like to take a French class this summer too because there is nothing like repetively conjugating verbs. Also I just wrote "repetively" which is kind of ironic because I forgot the "it" in the middle.

March 4 always reminds me of my sister Rachel who pointed out that the date sounds like "march forth"--onward, everyone into the future.  Although we have to go on without her. I missed her today.

I'm afraid, nonsensicalifornia, that I may need to take you with me if I build another website. I'd rather just have one.  If I can figure out how to switch to a new platform, keep the content, and keep the domain, I would.  I get jealous sometimes of people with websites with that fresher feel.  Not a jealous rage, but a longing. 

Speaking of longing, my crowning poetic moment of February is presently unshared (a word I will come back to).

I made a love meme for Ryan and it had a pine tree image and it said.... UGH I will just have to show you later.

Back to "unshared."  Isn't it odd that {-un} has several meanings? Por ejemplo, in "undo" and "unwind" it means to reverse a course of action that has been completed.  And it can mean "not," as in "unreliable" or "uncharacteristic."  But when I said "unshared" did you think it meant "not yet" as in "not yet shared"???

Okay this was the meme:

Okay also this was the first meme I've ever done so don't laugh at me if you think it's stupid. Well actually laugh if you want, whatevsies.

Forth is an interesting word, isn't it?