Applying Wendell Berry's 'Rules for New Tools' to Leadership Choices

Though much has changed and much technology has come and gone since the 1980’s this list [of Wendell's rules for new tools] is as poignant and immediately valuable as it was then. And it also reveals, as Ted Gioia recently reviewed, that by these simple and obvious standards, most of our technology is really letting us down. Or more accurately, we’re expecting far too little from our technology such that we and the world on which the future must be built are working for the technology rather than the other way around.

Here’s what I’d like to offer you ahead of the Federal Election: a Wendell Berry-inspired list of nine items that we could use now, and any time, as criteria to choose a new Prime Minister or any elected official.

Read it all at "How Would Wendell Berry Choose the Next Prime Minister of Canada?" by John Wesley Chisholm.