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. |