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Wherever people gather, gossip is the norm ── the work place being no exception. Leaders do not talk about people. Leaders know that gossip hurts the object of the gossip […]
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Leaders value truth. They understand that the greatest courtesy they can extend to their team is to speak the truth about performance. Leaders avoid falling into the trap of misplaced
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Choosing what is clearly right earns the respect of others. However, the decisions a leader has to make frequently have no clearly right or clearly wrong choice. When a leader
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Once upon a time I heard a good and decent man offer this advice: Make your life your argument. Among leaders it is a shared wisdom. Because leaders know that
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A basic principle of the language arts is that you cannot define a word by using the word. For example, you cannot define complacent by saying: Complacent means to be
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It takes ten times longer to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart. Leaders know the wiser, more efficient, course is to keep one’s head to start
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For untold centuries, one of the most important trees in the American food chain and in forests from Maine to Mississippi was the wild American Chestnut tree. Estimates show there
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Marvin Pipkin was a legendary engineer at General Electric. When he first got started at GE, a few of the other engineers decided to play a joke on him. They
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A friend recently shared a simple reminder with me. It was “The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it’s permanent, then it’s
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“Dear George- Remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings. – Clarence.” That was the note written to the main character in the classic movie