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The Best Thing You Can Have Is Bad Intelligence

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Walmart, Leaders, Intelligence, Inspiration, Start With Why, General Motors, Microsoft, Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Thought Leaders, Competitive Analysis, Corporate Culture, Wal-Mart, Culture, Business News
Simon Sinek

The greatest threat any organization can face is not its competition but its own success. With great success comes complacency -- the false belief that you are the best and that you don't have to worry.

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There Is a Difference Between Direction and Directions

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

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Simon Sinek

Direction is the far-away destination to which you are heading and directions are the route you will take to get to get there.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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Leaders and Purposeful Time

John O'Neil | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

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John O'Neil

How do the best leaders cope with matching time and purpose? Based on my research and experience here are a few clear guidelines on how to save time and bend it to your purpose.

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Being a Great Professional

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Peter Drucker, Phony, Leaders, Change, 42nd Street, Executive Educator, Inspiration, Clinton, Behavior, Frances Hesselbein, Broadway, Professional, President, Actors, Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

Like great actors, inspirational leaders sometimes need to be consummate performers. It doesn't matter if they have a headache. They do whatever it takes to help their organization succeed.

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Health Care Reform: The New Promised Land

James M. Lynch | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Leaders, Activism, Death Panels, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Working Families, Healthcare Reform, Facebook, Obama Health Care, Politics News
James M. Lynch

When my father died we were left in insurmountable, unrecoverable debt and we did, literally, go broke because he got sick.

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Start Asking

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Knowledge Workers, Listening, Leaders, Peter Drucker, Discipline, Information Age, Opinion, Habit, Parent, Courage, Coach, Child, Corporations, 360 Feedback, Managers, Interpersonal Relationship, Family, Leadership, Success-Tips, Living News
Marshall Goldsmith

Why don't most of us ask, even though we know we should? We don't ask, because we are afraid of the answers.

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Where Is a Genie When You Need One?

Jim Selman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

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Jim Selman

We live as if the causes and the solutions to our problems are somehow outside of ourselves and that they are beyond our ability to resolve. This view of the world inevitably leads to resignation.

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Founding of the Singularity University

Peter Diamandis | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

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Peter Diamandis

Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity's grand challenges.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Capitol Hill, White House, Debate, Family, Children, Scripture, Low Income Families, Legislation, Common Good, Values, Policy Debate, Single Payer, Sin, Health Care, Class, Faith, Private Insurance, Church, Fear, Leaders, Money, Politics, Biblical, Democrat, Congress, Health, Election, Families, Healthcare, Democrats, Moral Issues, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Republicans, Ethics, Partisan Politics, Unions, Medical Care, Partisan, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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Shalita O'Neale Pays it Forward

Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.28.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Leadership, Shalita O'Neale, Leaders, Run DMC, Child Abuse, Child Watch, Children, Adopt, No Child Left Behind, Rock, Thought Leaders, Foster Care, Children's Health, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Adoption, Eyes & Ears News
Timothy Cooper

Youth should be sitting around the table with the policy and decision-makers, as no one knows the foster care system better than the youth who've lived in it.

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Expectations for the New President

Laura Liswood | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

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Laura Liswood

It does not surprise me that the debate around President Obama includes the issue of how much to expect and what can change.

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In the New Millennium, Success Is Based Entirely on Volunteers

Rick Smith | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living

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Rick Smith

To be successful, you need to earn every relationship. Leadership in the 21st century is based entirely on one's ability to recruit and inspire others toward the future you are trying to create.

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Where Have All the Grownups Gone?

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living

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Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.

Where's the gravitas? Where are the leaders? This is no time for our most experienced men and women to be on the bench.

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Obama's Call to Rebuild

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

This wasn't really a budget speech, or even a State of the Union. It was a call to rebuild a country -- from its infrastructure, to its economy, to its values.

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Leadership and The Interregnum

David Weinberger | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Leaders, Bush, Obama Inauguration, George W. Bush, Obama, George Bush, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Weinberger

Although I've been furious at President Bush for years, I had no idea I've actually been holding some back. I didn't think I had any more to give. But then George Bush began his round of farewells.

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From Privilege or General Population ... From Which Come the Best Leaders?

Ambria Miscia | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Ambria Miscia

It's hard to regroup in life when all you have time to think about is the ten steps in front of you: food, shelter and basic necessities.

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Military Leaders for Kids

Jonathan Powers | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Jonathan Powers

If we want to ensure that we have a strong, capable fighting force, we need to help America's youth succeed academically, graduate from high school and obey the law.

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Automakers: Apology Accepted

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

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Jim Wallis

If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.

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Why We Vote For The Happiest Cavemen

Rick Foster | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Voter Appeal, Cult of Personality, Physiology, Public Appearances, American Voting, Presidential Debates, Survival, Social Research, Happiest, Happiness, Attraction, Character Assassination, Happy People, Greg Hicks, Medical Anthropology, Africa, Prehistory, Debate Performances, Clan, American Political System, Leaders, Guilt by Association, Medical Research, Characteristics, Savannah, Political Backlash, Vote, American Voters, Good Leaders, Evolution, Candidate, Caves Lascaux, Truth, Politics News
Rick Foster

Our attraction to certain personal characteristics is integral to how we evolved as humans. How do we leap from prehistoric clan success to modern day presidential politics?

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How To Use Clarity To Get Things Done

Roger Fransecky | Posted 09.08.2008 | Living

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Roger Fransecky

Leaders are in the outcome business. Most of us live with the "hope" that we'll "get 'er done," but too often we are delayed or lost getting there. Or we never leave.

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Environmentalism & The Terrible Twos

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Leaders, G-8, Climate Change, Environmentalism, Living, The Inner Life, Japan, G8 Summit, Rusutsu, G8 Summit Japan, Bush Environmentalism, Green News
Dr. Susan Corso

I saw no ideals at the G-8 Summit. Instead, I saw compromise and jockeying and political posturing. These are not the behaviors of leaders, they are the behaviors of followers.

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