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Leading Thoughts for March 16, 2023

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Source: Speech, Don’t Be Afraid to Travel the Road Less Traveled , August 5, 2006, NFL Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Remember that you are the windows through which your children see this world.

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Leading Thoughts for July 15, 2021

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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.

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Five Frequencies That Are Driving Your Culture (for better or worse)

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They introduce the concept with a story: A traveler on an important journey comes to a raging river. When fellow travelers point this out, she’s incredulous: “You don’t understand,” she says. “If They are weather in any organization. What do kind of weather do you bring? It seems there’s no way to cross. And she’s right.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

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We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

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9 Reality Rules You Need to Know

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You must know the nature of the reality and what it demands, and the nature of the field and terrain on which you will travel. If you are to make the best of the journey, you must know the nature of the challenge. You must have the facts. Rule #4: Be Prepared Some stuff will happen for sure.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2023

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But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving.

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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

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The discipline to absorb defeat without yielding to defeatism, to distinguish between constructive criticism and the shouted abuse of armchair quarterbacks—these and other lessons served Ford as guideposts in his political travels.” ☙ As a new congressman, “Ford could often be found at his desk on weekends as well.

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