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Losing Touch with These 5 Leadership Principles Leads to Communication Failures

The Practical Leader

A well-known line uttered by a desperate sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is, “water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” Many people are looking for what’s new in quick-fix communication tools, technologies, programs, or workshops. Constant improvement.

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Leaders, What's Your Vocation?

Next Level Blog

  By vocation, I don’t mean your job or your career.  I thought about that intersection of deep personal happiness and the world’s great need last week when I read the obituary of Dr. Billy Taylor.    Dr. Taylor crafted a 70 year vocation as a jazz performer and educator.  "It was my doing.

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