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The Best Leaders Have Fun

Chris Brady

" However, it will often take a lot of work (that may not be much fun) to get to the point where the organization is correctly arranged and people have earned their way into positions of their gifting. Posted by: Tony | January 18, 2011 at 07:24 PM Chris, What a great post. I love this. Work hard, play hard. There is the fun.

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Working at the Roots

Chris Brady

  What are the top five problems assailing you and/or your organization at the moment? " But a leader does not have the option of avoiding this difficult work. In fact, this IS the work of a leader.  Have you done the hard work of (continually) thinking through these issues?

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Author Chris Brady's Leadership Blog: Multum, Non Multa

Chris Brady

They exist in the gaps between the things we have scheduled, planned, organized, and orchestrated. .  One of my favorite sayings comes from the movie Hitch:  " Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away." " Those moments are available to us all.

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Featured Rascal: Mother Teresa

Chris Brady

"   Her charity grew from a tiny concern ina Calcutta, India, into an enormous, world-wide organization.   With such a growing organization focused upon the lowest strata ofexistence, Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity garnered internationalfame.   She was featured in booksand a documentary.

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Mob or Team?

Chris Brady

Just because one isn't the titular head of an organization of people doesn't mean he or she cannot lead. Leadership is the force that prevents the mob tendencies of any group of people and instead channels those energies into productive alignment. And this leadership can come from any and all levels.

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Rascals

Chris Brady

  Inspiredby Jongh's example and empowered by her organization, new volunteers seemedalways ready to step into gaps created by arrests and murders. .             Incredibly,the Comet Line lived on.

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To Know and Still Glow

Chris Brady

" Posted by: Sid Thornton | January 05, 2011 at 02:43 PM While recently watching my kids play I was trying to wrap my mind around just this very thing. Posted by: Tony Hendricks | January 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM Chris, I appreciate your reminder to keep things in their proper perspective. Please don't stop.

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