Category: The Doing (Accountability)

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Reach for the Broom

Are you willing to step up when the need arises? When the call comes, do you step forward? Raise your hand and

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The Invincible Summer Within

There is a famous quote by Nobel Literature Prize winner Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there

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True Grit: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

True Grit: Call it resilience or perseverance or determination or courage or fortitude or toughness. Call it all of those things and

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What We Need is a Bigger Hammer…NOT!

The ‘Bigger Hammer’ approach is simplistic thinking that blithefully assumes that more of the same, just increasing intensity or scale, will work.

"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."

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Difficulties in Telling Truth to Power… even when Power Wants to Listen

I recently managed to lose $12 million dollars in just over two years. Since the biggest mistake is the one you don’t

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I Have Trust Issues

I made the statement ‘I Have Trust Issues’ in semi jest replying to an inquiry as to why The Collier Companies always

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Sua Sponte

Sua sponte is Latin for ‘of their own accord’ and refers to action taken without formal prompting. While the phrase is a

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Per Aspera Ad Astra

“Per Aspera Ad Astra” is Latin for ‘through hardship to the stars’ and can be taken several related ways including it is

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Extraordinary Comes From How You Do the Day-to-Day Ordinary

Most of us have heard the quote attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,

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Is it Still Your Biggest Rock?

‘Biggest Rock First’ refers to putting your most important priorities on your schedule first and then fitting other, lesser priorities in around

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

The quote is by the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019, Pulitzer Prize winner) and the elegant beauty of it always spoke volumes to