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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

On Sunday, I took 75 pictures; because of a light wind and the sun’s travels across the sky, perhaps five of those were true &# keepers&#. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I’m wondering how you do so?

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Author Chris Brady's Leadership Blog: Tell Me If Anything Was Ever.

Chris Brady

I am reminded in it of the great quote from John Greenleaf Whittier, "For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' " May these words never be so said of us, as you so eloquently said them here of Leonardo da Vinci. Thank you for sharing it.

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Is Your Heart the Boss of You? | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

In addition, there is evidence that some sensory information is sent directly to the heart before it even travels to the brain. What this means to you So what does all of this research mean to leadership and organizations? I became much better at real leadership the day I shredded my business card. Thanks for sharing it.

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Let Them See You as Human

Persuasive Powerhouse

The women (admins were all women at one time) began talking about how difficult it was to find good child care, and how they had to travel great distances sometimes to find it. We need role models of good leadership. This greatly extended commute times to work. I wish we did. Your thoughts on this?

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Why was George Bailey the ‘Richest Man in Town?’

Center for Creative Leadership

What is servant leadership? Robert Greenleaf, the philosopher behind the idea of servant leadership, wrote: “The servant leader is servant first…it begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first….” He wants to travel and put the small town of Bedford Falls behind him. The helpers.