Challenges are part of life. How will you coach yourself through difficulties? What strategies will help you through tough times? Where can you turn for inspiration? …
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By James Strock
Challenges are part of life. How will you coach yourself through difficulties? What strategies will help you through tough times? Where can you turn for inspiration? …
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By James Strock
What are you selling... now? Are you updating your sales content and media? Are you adding more value in what you are selling? Are you adapting to new circumstances, creating new …
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By James Strock
Arthur Godfrey is largely forgotten now–other than as a question for quiz shows and games. Yet his influence is all around us. Every morning when you listen to the radio in “drive time,” every day and …
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By James Strock
There was a time when they were simply a beautiful young couple in love. Nina and Claus von Stauffenberg were favored by fortune. They were aristocrats. They were patriots, dedicated to the nation …
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By James Strock
Bob Morris, a renowned reviewer and leadership expert in business and beyond, generously interviewed me about leadership. The interview is in two parts, and is reprinted here with …
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By James Strock
Many people automatically think of leaders as isolated individuals. That's got a kernel of truth, even in our digital, collaborative age. Of course, leaders, by definition, don't work alone. One of …
“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.”