Personal and Self Improvement Leadership

Something to Wake Up For

By: Carolina Fernandez Driving to work one morning last week, I was stopped at a light behind a large SUV, the woman driver scurrying madly through rush-hour traffic. Her vehicle proudly displayed two college decals, one from ...
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Recalling Your Favorite Teacher

By: Ken Lizotte Whose image comes up in your mind when you read the phrase “your favorite teacher”? Whose visage beams through, obscuring all the others? Does a warm glow inside accompany the memory? Probably because something ...
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Leadership is the Relationship

By: Kenneth Rice Leadership is an ongoing relationship between the leader and superiors, leaders and colleagues, leaders and consumers, and especially between leaders and followers. This intangible notion we call leadership most often refers to the interaction ...
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Come on Hillary, You are Next!

By: Hans Bool A “first” woman for president in a male dominating (for not saying -- a macho) South American world. This is actually happening in Chile to be more precise and her name is Michelle Bachelet. ...
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What is Leadership?

By: Kevin Stirtz Leadership is what every organization needs and so few have in adequate supply. Part of leadership is what the first President Bush called “the vision thing”. It’s the ability to see what does not ...
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I’ve Fallen And I can’t Get Up - Forget About That If You’re A Leader!

By: Rosemary Rein Meet Bonnie St. John. Bonnie lost her leg at the age of 5--a self-described "one-legged African American Woman, not of privilege" who would go on to win two medals for skiing in the ...
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Fighting the Gravitational Pull of Positional Leadership

By: Aubie Pouncey A little on leadership…Many people enter the leadership world through a position and a title, but we must understand that just owning a title doesn’t make you a leader. Being a leader is ...
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How To Get To Know A Disabled Person

By: Stephen Michael Kerr When you first meet someone who is blind, deaf, or in a wheelchair, what is your initial reaction? Curiosity? Sympathy? Awkwardness? If you experience any of these emotions, you ...
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Leadership by Persuasion - Four Steps to Success

By: Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D. As a leader, your success depends upon your ability to get things done: up, down and across all lines. To survive and succeed, you must learn four essential skills of persuading people. ...
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Review - H. Morgenthau Revised by K. Thompson, "The Future of Diplomacy"

By: Kenneth Rice Morgenthau purports that “a diplomacy that ends in war has failed its primary objective, which is the promotion of national interest by peaceful means.” I agree with this to the extent that the ...
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