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Leading Thoughts for July 6, 2023

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While our best and brightest are exquisitely trained to pursue the false rabbis of success, on the whole they are being poorly trained in the intangible qualities that become the virtues that bring real success.” Source: Enough. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life II. True Measures of Money, Business, and Life II.

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Leading Thoughts for February 11, 2021

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Historians Will and Ariel Durant on the need for educated citizens: “Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Winning the Relay Race of Family Wealth Transfer

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If they don’t, it’s like putting someone into a relay race with no coaching or training. It’s the same way with managing and passing on wealth — the experienced wealth managers in the family, and the coach, must educate the inexperienced members of the family. Grantors need to share what they’ve learned about managing wealth.

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

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Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training. The workshop content wasn’t complicated, but if you’re currently running a research lab, odds are, you’ve never seen it.

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Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World

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Culatta, who is the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education and the former Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, has developed a framework that we should use to guide our approach to teaching digital citizenship : Be Balanced Balance isn’t a time conversation.

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Nailing It: How Historys Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together

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Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made. Young people that believe that their education may be useless and that their career opportunities have fallen apart before they have even started out.

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Leading Thoughts for April 29, 2021

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And yet, I’d trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. Source: The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur. * * *. I needed to remain cool. I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I’d competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians.