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Leading Thoughts for July 15, 2021

Leading Blog

You’ll take your share of bumps and bruises while traveling – bruises of the ego as well as of the body, mind and spirit – but it might well turn out to be the most reliable thing in your life. But that’s not really the point. What is mastery? At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.”.

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What Don Draper and Gordon Gekko Have to Teach Us

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This past weekend, Gordon Gekko was back in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. All of that seems to work for Gordon Gekko as well – especially the part about blow people away anytime you say anything. It lets us travel the way a child travels, around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.

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Many Ways to Connect

Michael Lee Stallard

David Gill, a professor at Gordon Conwell College, told me that we connect with the Divine when we “help people fulfill their dreams or overcome their nightmares.” (We also connect with others when our organization’s mission accomplishes these ends.). As I travel, I’ll post new things I learn about connection.

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Entrepreneurship in American History

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Sources: John Steele Gordon: Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power. Books Leadership Memes Skills Success Travel What is Work life adam smith adirondack mountains Albert O. Books Leadership Memes Skills Success Travel What is Work life adam smith adirondack mountains Albert O. Related articles.

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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobson

Gordon Food Services , the largest family-owned and managed food distributor in North America, successfully went through SRT, and they also showed that large companies can be agile and adaptive. Thrive companies are learning, performing, and growing stronger and faster than others.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your well wishes Gordon. Thanks Mark. I wish him and his fellow EOD specialists the most since best wishes for a safe journey.

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Common Purpose Leadership

Leading Blog

For example: Emphasize One Goal – Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines, recognized that his customers valued on-time performance. Instead, he decided to abide by the same corporate travel rules that every other executive in the company abides by. He set this as the measure of success for the company.