What Is

(An Entity)?

Third Person Answer

(Descriptive)

What Does Being (An Entity) Mean?

First Person Answer

(As-Lived Experience)

What is a human being?

A member of Homo sapiens, that species differentiated by its speech, large frontal lobes, upright posture, capacity to make and use complex tools, opposable thumb, and abstract reasoning ability.

What does it mean to be human?

Being human means: being-in-the-world-(thrown); being-in-language; being-with-others; being-as-care; being-a-temporal-unfolding.

What is a leader?

A person in charge (of a group, organization, corporation, team, or unit) who wields clout, has answers, allocates resources, and directs followers.

What does it mean to be a leader?

Being a leader means using language to reframe people’s challenges such that more effective ways of being and acting are the outcome.