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By James Strock
By James Strock
Who are the 21st century leaders? Where can we find them? The premise—stated or unstated—is that there's a leadership gap today. Who can argue against the spectacular failures of leadership …
By James Strock
Can you be decisive without being divisive? The etymology of decide is to cut. Decisive implies taking actions that have significant consequences and prospective risk. Does that mean that a decisive …
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My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each others negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum parts. And that’s how I see …
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Is your organization people ready to make the necessary transition from the age of information to the age of innovation? Can you create not only a learning organization, but a living organization …
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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.”