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By James Strock
By James Strock
History touches us in this extraordinary photograph of Lilian Lenton. It was taken in or around 1910. …
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By James Strock
Serve to Lead makes much of the relationship between leadership and art. In the end, what is leadership, but performance art? Effective leaders often possess notable acting skills. Great actors may …
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By James Strock
The Washington Post reports "A new method against genetically modified salmon: Get retailers to refuse to sell it." With the U.S. Food & Drug Administration signaling its prospective approval of …
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Lincoln Public Sentiment …
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We need to break away from the Industrial-Age psychology that labels people as expenses and cell phones as assets. Jobs should cater to our interests. Instead of telling people what they're hired to …
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”