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Professor M.S.Rao is an international leadership guru and an internationally acclaimed executive coach, educator, author, speaker, and consultant. He earned a PhD in Soft Skills in 2011. He has 34 …
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Life is a theater... the world's a stage...so invite your audiences carefully. Not everyone is holy enough and healthy enough to have a seat in your front row. …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JyyaniaV0 This post was originally published in 2012—yet the issues and dilemmas are far from resolved. If anything, from China to Russia to a range of authoritarian …
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On Thursday, August 14, 1980, Lech Walesa led his fellow workers in Gdansk, Poland, seizing the Lenin Shipyard, demanding wage increases and the right to organize a union. In their "crowded hour," …
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Landslide is a delightful read. It's filled with insights and observations that will interest the most knowledgeable political junkie. Journalist Jonathan Darman writes with a flair that will hold …
“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.”