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Personal Development
I know. It seems like a long way off? How about 4 years! Let’s make that 3 years and 9 months!! We live in an age of rapid change. We are experiencing the 24/7 non-stop global community. Business cycles are speeding up. Customers and stakeholders demand instant responses. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence...
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Seventy-seven years ago MGM produced one of the best films of all time – – The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. It was a 1939 film starring Judy Garland, and has been used over the years to highlight principles for both leading and living. The key principle is personal accountability.  Dorothy, Tin Man, Lion and Scarecrow,...
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Can Anyone Be A Leader? According to current research, about 30% of a person’s leadership ability is genetic, and the rest is learned—but not necessarily in school.  Stem cells are waiting to be developed.  Much of that which is learned comes through life experiences. The contributions from our experience cannot be overlooked. Challenges, hardships, work...
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Nothing stands still.  Things get better or worse.  Let’s make this more personal.  We are either getting better or worse.  It’s a universal principle – starting with the Universe itself –that which doesn’t expand, contracts.  We are either going forward or backward. Stephen Covey referred to this kind of thinking as sharpening the saw.  Just...
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Of all the lessons there are to learn in life, one stands out for me.  What is that lesson?  It’s learning to be myself. “Be yourself: everyone else is taken.” – Oscar Wilde I’ve discovered that learning the lesson doesn’t happen in a day, but it does happen daily. What being yourself doesn’t mean: It’s...
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“Why would I have to do what my boss asks me to do?” The student who asked this question of his friend was quite serious. Though it seems incredulous, with some thought, that question is not so easy to answer. The Millennial’s sincere curiosity wasn’t meant to be disrespectful. Yet the perception from most people...
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