The tender intimacy and selflessness of a mother's love for her infant occupies a unique and exalted position in human conduct… It provides one of the most powerful motivations for human action, and has been celebrated throughout the ages—in literature, art and music—as one of the most beautiful and inspiring manifestations of human behaviour (Zeki, 2004). Mothers demonstrate a unique ability t...

We do not need long arguments to convince anyone that love has been promoted since time immemorial. Spiritual heroes, religious leaders, philosophers, poets, moralists and philanthropists of all kinds have used a great diversity of terms to encourage the expression of love's many facets. According to the context they refer to compassion, altruism, selflessness, charity, generosity, bounty, huma...

This article discusses the inherent paradoxical nature of systems intelligent leadership. Systems intelligent leaders show a fluent ability to act as the situation calls for and exhibit bifocal thinking to transcendent seemingly oppositional positions to exploit the emergent potential. Selected paradoxical aspects of systems intelligent leadership are highlighted: acting intelligently without k...