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Leap Challenge Day 27: Prepare for Resistance

On February 27, 2012 · 5 Comments

If you’re attempting anything of significance, expect resistance. Try to do anything extraordinary and you’ll immediately feel the gravity of the status quo pulling you back to the common level of life.

Task #27: Anticipate the resistance you’ll face and prepare your response now; write it down in your Leap [...]

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Putting Things in Perspective

On December 19, 2011 · 14 Comments

I’ve spent the past three weeks sleep-deprived and perpetually behind in just about every area of my life. My routines have been shredded, my energy sapped, my patience eroded, and my disciplines decimated. My home office is a mess, I can’t seem to get into a groove at work, and I haven’t written a [...]

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5 Things I Learned Flying a Desk

On November 22, 2011 · 9 Comments

My first real job as an Army Aviator was as a junior staff officer in an Attack Helicopter Battalion. Instead of helicopters and soldiers I was given projects and paperwork. Instead of employing combat power, I was employing PowerPoint.

My turn in the cockpit would come—and it [...]

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3 Modern Leadership Myths

On November 17, 2011 · 1 Comment

Ten or twenty years ago, debunking leadership myths was easy. In every other corner office you could find an overconfident boss barking orders to masses of underperforming employees. However, over the last decade there has been a shift in the prevailing management winds.

Most of the changes have been good—though none revolutionary.

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4 Ways to Set Your People Free

On September 19, 2011 · 7 Comments

I was 21 years old the first time I handed my passport to an armed guard at a checkpoint and entered what the UN calls an Occupied Territory. It was the summer of ’95 and I was driving into the

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