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HAPPENING TO THE WORLD

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch Jack Welch was a business giant as Chairman and CEO of General Electric.  As you can tell from the above quote, he would be an advocate of “happening to the world.” I’ve used this term through the years.  It’s based on the idea that […]

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CONTAGIOUS SPIRITS

CONTAGIOUS SPIRITS “Spirit is highly contagious.  When people are very excited, very happy, or very sad, you can catch it from them as easily as measles or a yawn.  You can catch it from what they say or from what they do or just from what happens to the air of a room when they […]

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DISTINCTIVE TEAMMATES – GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS

I meet regularly with a group of young people.  A recent topic was “Going about your business.” I asked them to identify someone they admired because of the way they “go about their business.”  These are teenage kids who don’t think of life as “going about business.”  With some prodding, they identified a teammate who […]

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CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE

“Lead where you stand.” In these days of stress and turmoil, that’s the thread that keeps running through my brain. Work inside your circle of influence to make things better. Model the behavior you believe is right for the world. Do unto others as you desire it be done to you. Listen to understand. Lend […]

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