While working with a group of engineers who had just been through a battery of personality tests, I asked one what he had learned from his results. His answer was classic. “They say I have low empathy…but I don’t care.”
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How would you cap off a long-term leadership development program? Hold a special dinner? Give an inspiring speech? That’s what one of the world’s greatest leaders did. But first, before the dinner and before the speech, he dressed himself like a slave and washed his students’ dirty feet. Whether you’re a believing Christian or not,
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams Everyone – every human on this planet – has the capacity to lead. Leadership isn’t exclusive to any group, race, gender or creed. It doesn’t matter how young, old, short, tall, smart
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I honestly believe that an improvisation class should be mandatory for all aspiring leaders. Not for the performance aspect, but for the philosophical and experiential foundation it would provide. No matter how much you plan or prepare, life is improvisation. You can’t predict with 100% accuracy what the world will throw at you. Thankfully, humans
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins. – Ulysses S. Grant As leaders we need to remind ourselves that things are not always what they seem. As humans, each one of us walks around with a point of view. Unless we
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