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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.

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Out of Context: Preparing for the Unexpected

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P RACTICING one drill over and over is like playing computerized brain-training games. By overloading the cognitive circuits during training, a player’s neural network is better prepared to compute new solutions to one-of-a-kind, in-game situations.

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quickpoint: What Middle Managers Do

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They should invest in their success, placing their most qualified and valued people in these roles, providing training for them to excel, rewarding them within the role rather than promoting them into more senior positions, and most importantly giving them the time to actually manage.

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Leading Thoughts for January 18, 2024

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Non-judgmental concentration trains your brain to realize that the people and things in your life don’t exist relative to you; they simply exist. If you can take yourself out of the equation, you’ll have a much clearer view.

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Stay Sane in An Insane World

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You want to believe that the hard work of practicing, training, and rehearsing for success will give you the right mindset to turn troubled times into valuable lessons that get you closer to your goal. You must train yourself to adapt to every possible circumstance, deal with any situation, use any object as a weapon to defend yourself.

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Leading Thoughts for March 16, 2023

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A person may, indeed, have the make-up, temperament, patience, and vision to lead, but without the right attitude, experience, approach, and training, that individual’s ‘knack’ for leadership doesn’t translate into real leadership.” Ritch Eich on natural born leaders: “Too often we hear things such as ‘he (or she) is a natural-born leader.’

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Leading Thoughts for August 3, 2023

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Therefore, in our training to be loyal, we need to learn the real meaning of service to something greater than oneself.” We suppress our short-term self-interests to maintain our bond. In its most noble form, we serve a cause greater than ourselves, designed to unite with another.

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