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The Best Leaders Are Humble Leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

Little do they know, humility is an incredibly powerful choice. Scientific inquiry into the power and effectiveness of humility has shown that it offers a significant “competitive advantage” to leaders. Leaders are more powerful when they’re humble. It is a critical success factor. Small steps everyday.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From DC League of Super-Pets

Joseph Lalonde

After Superman is captured, Krypto is forced to team up with superpowered shelter pets Ace (Kevin Hart), Merton (Natasha Lyonne), Chip (Diego Luna), and PB (Vanessa Bayer). The theory was orange kryptonite would give ordinary people power. Lex didn’t gain any powers. There is power within you. Nothing happened.

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Leaders Share about Worklife Balance Integration – A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

” – Thomas Merton. Learn from an acrobat and see how to use these concepts to power your goals. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! What is Worklife Balance? “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” Follow Skip.

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Powerful Quotes From Mark Goulston's Book, Just Listen

Eric Jacobson

The expected is tuned out. -- Steve Strauss Humility is the surest sign of strength. -- Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -- Bill Gates The secret of getting ahead is getting started. -- Agatha Chrisie Don''t find fault. The expected is boring. Find a remedy. -- Henry Ford.

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Powerful Quotes From The Book, Just Listen

Eric Jacobson

Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Vulnerability doesn''t make you weak, it makes you accessible. Know that your vulnerability can be your strength. Keith Ferrazzi Humility is the surest sign of strength.

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In Defense of Cosmopolitanism

Harvard Business Review

My parents embodied a distinction that the sociologist Robert Merton made in the 1950s studying a small American town. Up to Merton’s time, however, locals and cosmopolitans, remained strange bedfellows. The town’s influential members, he found, were either “locals” or “cosmopolitans.”

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Todd Henry: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas. He regularly speaks and consults with companies, both large and small, about how to develop practices and systems that lead to everyday brilliance.