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Giving Away Your Gifts

Persuasive Powerhouse

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Realize that it does belong in your everyday interactions at work, and that you must give it away in order to model the compassion you want expressed at work. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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Is There Hope for Leaders?

Persuasive Powerhouse

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. I had the car for 20 days before I hit a truck head on and totaled it. I escaped with minor scrapes and stitches, miraculously.

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In Praise of Leaders Who Give Meaning to Labor

Persuasive Powerhouse

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product.

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Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. I am a strong believer that everything or every process can be improved and we have to change our self to accommodate the improvement.

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It's About What Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy. Which is another thing that I’m surprised I haven’t lost it yet because going to the gym is a huge stress reliever for me.

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. One mill girl, Lucy Larcom, studied German and botany, and published poems in the mill girls’ literary magazine during the 1830s and 1840s; she came to the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier, who became her mentor.

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How the U.S. Marines Encourage Service-Based Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Greenleaf first introduced the concept of servant leadership to businesses in the mid-1900s. Sometimes the language people use is a sign that there’s unhealthy competition in an organization: billable versus nonbillable time, operators versus overhead, and marketing versus engineers.