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Leadership and Philosophy
I posted yesterday New York Times bestselling author Orrin Woodward’s observations on the gap between our intentions and our actions which creates our limiting beliefs. This morning, I reflect on the gap between life and knowledge which is growing wider and wider. Only by asking the right questions, can we close this gap and live…
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Leadership, Happiness, New You, New Year!
I wish you a Happy New You. First, a New You in charge of your fitness, health, and well-being. A New You in charge of your success as well as your failure.A New You who is in charge to better yourself by setting specific goals and acting in such a way for those goals to become…
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Leadership & Vision: living the life we’ve always wanted as an idea expressed today!
I like the book of Proverbs. Whenever I feel the need to reconnect with myself, I go back to the basics with the writings of king Solomon. His verse “Where there’s no vision, the people will perish” (Proverbs 29:18) always ignites my passion to imagine and create in my mind a life larger, deeper than…
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Leadership education, learning and the intellect: some thoughts from Arnold Toynbee & Daisaku Ikedda
Thanks to my friend Frantz Rimpel who gave me this book as a gift three years ago, I woke up this morning re-reading “Choose Life, A dialogue” between historian Arnold Toynbee and Buddhist lay organization leader Daisaku Ikeda. This book, published in 1972, is a record of Toynbee & Ikeda’s views on critical issues confronting humanity. The book…
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Leadership Pope Francis: a plain conflict agaisnt the status quo in the Vatican
Bestselling author Chris Brady defines leadership as a plain conflict against the status quo. This is exactly what Pope Francis has been doing for the last three years. And he did it again last Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy. CNBC reported Francis’ Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See…
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Auto-correct Your “Self”
Originally posted on Letters to Lindsey: One letter certainly can have an impact on texting: “We stayed in our couch for two weeks.” (Although, there probably was a “couch” in the “coach,” of which she was speaking.) “My dear previous friend…” (Luckily, she was “precious” enough to see through that auto-correct.) “Fool!” (would have been more…
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Claude Hamilton on Leadership, freedom: keep your helmet on!
When I met author, speaker, and life coach, Claude Hamilton at the Life Leadership Seminar in Port Charlotte, FL, I asked him if he still adopts the slogan “keep your helmet on” as he advocates it in his first book Toughen up. He answered with a bit of seriousness :”Today more than ever we need to…
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Launching a Leadership Revolution through Leadership Education & Critical Thinking
“Our LLR System is designed to gradually and effectively transform your existing professional-level talent into engaged, contributed, go-to leaders”. LLR flyer
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Leadership Malala: an example of dreams, struggle, victory for education
It is said time and time again that one person can make a difference. No matter your age, gender, circumstances, you can impact the lives of others, by having and living your dreams, facing adversity, and claiming your victory. The 2014 youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old girl from Pakistan, resumes…
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Leadership, starters, & Finishers!
I watched this video repeated times today. It’s inspiring, amazing, and outstanding. It teaches us great lessons about finishing what we start and not to never give up before the finish line in whatever endeavor we set ourselves into. It was the 1992 Olympic 400-meter semifinal: Derek Redmond collapsed about half way through the race…
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