1. Is it naive for business leaders to try to be honest?

pay particular attention to Alan Greenspan’s Harvard Commencement Speech.Provide a key quotation from the speech. You are not obligated to agree with any perspectives in Mr. Greenspan’s speech,
but you are expected to consider the question with care; state a clear conclusion; and support your conclusion with convincing arguments. Link:
https://ww.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/1999/199906102.htm

2. Read and think about this quotation:
“The mind is fickle and flighty, it flies after fancies and whatever it likes; it is difficult indeed to restrain. But it is a great good to control the mind; a mind self-controlled is a source of
great joy” –Buddha’s Teachings (Penguin Classics, p. 8).
Identify three strategies you use (or recommend) to strengthen self-control. This optional reading may give you some ideas: An interview conducted with Roberto Assagioli by Sam Keen. Link:
http://two.not2.org/psychosynthesis/articles/GoldenMean.pdf

3. consider this list of failures and successes(Hnk:http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/educationllailures.htm) in the life of Abraham Lincoln. We’re suggesting that one of Lincoln’s
greatest attributes was his ability to recover and learn from failure. The quality of perseverance seemed especially useful to Lincoln as he struggled with “melancholy” (what might now be called
depression) Please read this related article (link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/10/1incolns-great-depression/304247/) by Joshua Wolf Shenk.
For Lincoln, learning how to persevere also meant learning how to adapt. Based on your reading of Shenk’s article, please identify three of Lincoln’s most successful adaptation strategies (skills.
habits, or ways of thinking) that helped him use his struggle with depression to accomplish worthy goals.
4. The Declaration of Independence refers to the “pursuit of happiness ” Should the word “pleasure” be substituted for “happiness”? Why/why not? Explain your answer.