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Leadership

Leaders Still Need To Do Stuff

Saturday morning I enjoyed a 45-minute Skype chat with my good friend David who now lives in the Netherlands. We struck up a friendship over electric guitars in a Singapore music shop a few years ago. Conversations with David never fail to sharpen my insights into life, fatherhood, music and servant leadership. David’s the headmaster […]

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Books & Quotes Leadership

You Are What You Read

Leaders are readers… because leaders must be continual learners. For years I have made it a practice to ask others whom I respect what they are reading, then pick up the best books and glean from them. There is much wisdom to be wrought from others’ insights and experiences. Here is my 2009 Leadership Reading […]

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Leadership

Does This Bother You?

Timothy Geithner, Obama’s – and America’s – new Treasury Secretary, failed to pay more than $34,000 in taxes, which were dubbed “innocent mistakes or technicalities.” Tom Daschle, nominee for Health and Human Services, just cleared up his “stupid mistake” by paying over $100,000 in back taxes and interest due from 2005 -2007. God, grant us […]