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What Did You Learn at School Today?
Rear view of class raising hands — Image by © Royalty-Free/Corbis Life is a serious teacher, she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards, When my daughter was young we had a ritual at the dinner...
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A Weekend with Andrew Carnegie
Skibo Castle, ancestral home of Andrew Carnegie There is little success where there is little laughter. ~ Andrew Carnegie This past weekend my family and I spent a glorious few days as the guests of...
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Leadership . . . Unsafe at any Speed?
In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and...
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SCUBA Diving and Leadership Effectiveness
The Aqualung, better known as Self-Contained-Underwater-Breathing-Apparatus (SCUBA), was developed in 1943 by an engineer Émile Gagnan, and a young Naval Lieutenant, Jacques Cousteau. It consisted of...
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The First Step on the Road to Leadership
The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step. ~Lao Tzu To say that the road to becoming an effective leader is long and difficult is an understatement and definitely not for the...
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Foxhole Buddies . . .
“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” -Walter Winchell Not too long ago I watched the HBO TV miniseries, The Pacific, produced by Tom Hanks. This is a companion piece to the widely...
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Two Life Skills Every Young Person Should Learn
Life skills, like values, are best learned at an early age. In today’s stipped-down, minimalistic educational system, values and life skills are not taught, let alone reinforced, so as parents, it is...
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Backward Planning: The Second Important Life Skill
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow. In my previous post I introduced the importance of habits and life skills that should be learned at an early age. And believe me, learning...
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Opps! A Third Critical Life Skill: Effective Public Speaking
My two previous posts on Critical Life Skills for Young People (Checklists and Backwards Planning ) have produced numerous comments. But one, from a fellow blogger who has great insight and...
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How to Engineer an Agile Corporate Culture
“I finally figured something out. Agile development is a culture, not a process.” ~Jeff Patton I have a bum knee. Actually it’s more than bum, it’s truly dysfunctional, especially after running...
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