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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Remember Abe Maslow’s famed line: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” If we approach our relationships with followers as fellow travelers on the same train, we begin to acknowledge interdependence. It entails choosing partnership over patriarchy.

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Last month, Kona was in San Francisco meeting Arnold Ambiel , Director of Operations for One World Futbol.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From American Assassin

Joseph Lalonde

After many online chats, Mitch was allowed to travel overseas and meet with the terrorists. During his interrogation, CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) had a team of CIA operatives crash the interrogation and kill the terrorists. She leveled the truth hammer. He answered question after question. She saw his cuts.

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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Government is like a sledge hammer. The people who don't believe this don't read history, I guess, or haven't traveled enough to third world countries. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. What a surprise, with former Monsanto executive Vilsek as the Secretary of Agriculture.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.