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The Best Leaders Are Humble Leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

It is a team effort. Stay humble. “ Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real ” -Thomas Merton. We know success doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Learn to appreciate and value the people around you. What you want won’t always come easy, but if you work hard, and never give up, you will get there. 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). ” Or do you do your best to care for your team? The best leaders care for their team. The hamsters defeat the superpowered team.

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A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Coaching Tip

Canadian Malcolm Gladwell in his book, " Outliers ," tells us that the way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulling prophecy" a situation where a "false definition, in the beginning.evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true.".

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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.

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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 French team had spent the night in the locker room too, in solidarity. Foot Soldiers of Globalization.

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Make Serendipity Work for You

Harvard Business Review

Merton and Elinor Barber.). He is writing a book on teams for Harvard Business Review Press. Finally, as for the presence of a pregnant woman, a combination of carnal desires on the part of the princes, and imprints of hands on the ground sufficed to bring about this final deduction.

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Three Times You Have to Speak Up

Harvard Business Review

I was thinking about that story by Thomas Merton during a recent board meeting. Minority viewpoints have been proven to aid the quality of decision making in juries, by teams, and for the purpose of innovation. It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent.

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