Leadership

A Lost Rifle on a Dark Night

“We don’t have to do this tonight do we, sir? Couldn’t we get our convoy delayed until the route changes?” I think I’ll always remember the look in his eyes and the tremble in his voice as he asked me that question that rainy evening. I couldn’t blame him for feeling that way – I [...]

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The Cost of Freedom As We Know It

It’s purely coincidental that this post follows a post about freedom businesses, but this one is not about personal freedom, but rather collective freedom. But what stays the same is that the securing of freedom doesn’t come easy and it sure as hell isn’t free. As I wrote last year on Memorial Day, it still [...]

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Letter from Lincoln (In Memoriam of Dr. King)

Preface I read Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” every year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s one of the most powerful pieces of ethical writing throughout the history of humanity. Every year, I learn something different from it; every year, there is a piece of it that resounds within me in a [...]

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How to Overcome the Fear of Uncertainty

As we loaded the grenades into his under-armored Humvee, he snapped. He was talking to us one second and violently throwing up his lunch the next. Apparently, loading live explosives into the vehicle you’ll be living in for a few days makes reality more – well – real. Amidst retches, he would would propose a [...]

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Plastic Soup, Deformed Turtles, and Getting Over Ourselves

I saw the picture above yesterday and my heart sank. I found it here, and while the article was powerful in relation to what’s going on with the large plastic dumps on either side of Hawaii, the turtle is what broke me. I’ve been trying to figure out why. Maybe because I had turtles as [...]

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Change Is In The Air

Today’s post will be really short as I’m taking a while to reflect on the possibilities of tomorrow. I haven’t spoken much about my political views on this blog, mostly because it’s not the right forum. Political discussions can often divide our energies and I didn’t want that to become the focal point of what [...]

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Why Waiting For Your Time to Be Great Leads to Failure

A whole train of passengers (individually brave enough) will be looted by a few highwaymen, simply because the latter can count on one another, while each passenger fears that if he makes a movement of resistance, he will be shot before anyone else backs him up. If we believed that the whole car-full would rise [...]

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Four Easy Reasons to Ignore World Poverty

I’m not feeling well today and was originally going to take the day off from posting, but then I realized it was Blog Action Day and the topic is Poverty. Given that this is one of my pet issues, I refuse to pass this opportunity by. I apologize that the post is going to be [...]

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How to Spread Teamthink Throughout Your Organization

If you’ve been following this series, you’ve no doubt noticed that I view organizations more like teams than mere collections of people. There’s both a positive reason for this and and a realistic one. The positive reason is that people like being part of successful groups and being praised for what they do. People are [...]

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