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I’m in Orlando with most my team athe American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Convention. Last night, our first night here, we went to B.B. King’s Restuarant and Blues Club. Of the many cool things in the place (and how can the place not be cool if it has B.B. King’s name attached to [...]
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Jack Dempsey had a simple definition of a champion. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” As a heavyweight boxing champion from 1919-1926, he had some experience in being a champion, and credibility in making that statement. When you think about it, the circular logic of the quotation makes perfect sense. Champions do [...]
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This is a post I started a couple weeks ago, then I let it sit. Since yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of America’s worst commercial nuclear accident (inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.), it seems appropriate to finish it now. The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan are terrible twin [...]
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Face it, we all mistakes. Heck, I’ve made a bunch today, and it is still early afternoon! Here are two common statements made about mistakes. “To err is human . . .” “We must learn from our mistakes.” While we know we will make mistakes, there is no guarantee we will learn from them. And [...]
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Today we will publish this week’s issue of our Powerquotes Plus newsletter – a ezine that offers a quotation, questions and action steps to help achievers, leaders and learners reflect…. and take action. Appropriately, I shared a quotation about thanksgiving today. Here it is, from preacher and author W.T. Purkiser: “Not what we say about [...]
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Best selling authors of The Leadership Challenge Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s latest book is called The Truth About Leadership. While they have been researching, speaking and writing about leadership for nearly three decades, I believe this is their best work to date. This book identifies ten leadership truths that Jim and Barry have identified over their careers as [...]
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It isn’t always easy to hold two seemingly conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time. I believe this is why too often too many people live in a But World. When they mention two different ideas or opinions to link them together with ” but” which linguistically implies and telegraphs that the latter one [...]
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By now you’ve read or heard something about Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who, after an altercation with a passenger, left the plane on an emergency slide at JFK airport on Monday. (If you haven’t heard anything, or want to read and see more, check out this page.) If you have seen or heard [...]
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What? I mean Willie is and has been a lot of things, but an interpersonal skills guru? Over the past few weeks one phrase from Willie and his buddy Waylon Jenning’s mega-hit Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys keeps popping into my head. (Actually the song was written by Ed and Patsy [...]
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Warning: This post opens with a words from a proud parent. Promise: The post ends with an important urging and reminder for all of us. Last night my son Parker directed the first performance of his one act play, Mr. Feather. He wrote, cast, produced and directed this play. It was fabulous! His was one of 7 “Final [...]
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