About…
….the site
The Alpha Mind is Max Christian Hansen’s blog about thought leadership. Here is its rationale:
We live and die by ideas. Thinking is an endeavor of the highest importance.
Not only every person, but every social grouping lives and dies by ideas. Families, communities, non-profits and churches, business enterprises, nation-states, and even, when the stakes are global, all humankind, must originate, evaluate, accept or reject, and act upon ideas. As every problem whose stakes are large is a problem that will be thought about, effective thinking is as urgent a craft as any we engage in together. Thinking is a social endeavor of the highest importance. And it is an endeavor which calls for leadership.
This blog is intended to help thought leaders do it well.
About Max
Max Christian Hansen is a management consultant who has been studying technological innovation, leadership, and the specialized field of thought leadership for over a decade. From 1992 through 2001 he operated the consulting firm The Max Hansen Group, which focused on innovation, incubation, and technology marketing. Now semi-retired, Hansen continues to consult (without a group), and is the part-time pastor of Berkeley Friends Church in Berkeley, CA.
This blog and related web site will be the channel for publication of Max’s studies in Thought Leadership. It will be accompanied by a podcast (May 2007) and other media that seem appropriate.
Max’s work on Thought Leadership has been influenced by:
- Robert Greenleaf’s work on servant leadership,
- Robert Levering’s work on workplace quality,
- several decades’ experience of the peculiar participatory leadership models of Quakerism, and
- studies of “public strategy” which he performed in his own consulting engagements and while working at Sun Microsystems.
Max may be contacted at:
510-541-7971
max(-at-)alum.mit.edu