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Just One Vote

Posted by on 04 Nov 2008 at 10:09 am under Government, Election, Leadership

Paul Harvey:
One voter in each precinct of the United States will determine the next president of the United States.
One vote. That’s a big weapon you have there.
In 1948, just one vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.
More? Thomas Jefferson […]

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Eleanor Roosevelt - Inspiration For These Economic Times

Posted by on 14 Oct 2008 at 1:11 pm under Profiles, Leadership, Economy

Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Services:
Listen to the news, and you’ll hear words that frighten every small businessperson. For the first time in my life, economists and analysts talk not just about recession, but use that most dreaded term “depression” and look to see how we pulled out of the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Do You Have The Courage To Be Extraordinary?

Posted by on 01 Jul 2008 at 1:11 pm under Creativity, Leadership, Advice

GetEntrepreneurial.com:
At a recent networking meeting, I had the opportunity to hear Pernille Spiers-Lopez speak.
Danish born, Pernille immigrated to the United States about 26 years ago as a young woman. After a few jobs that didn’t pan out for her, she found herself working in the Marketplace at Ikea, an international home furnishings retail chain originating […]

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Emerging Qualities of Leadership?

Posted by on 24 Oct 2007 at 9:07 am under Operations, Strategy, Leadership

BusinessWeek:
In a recent book, Apples Are Square (Kaplan Publishing; July, 2007), the “control and compete” approach of many entrepreneurs is replaced by a softer set of leadership qualities: service, humility, compassion, transparency, and inclusiveness, among other traits.
Authors Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas D. Kuczmarski gain credibility by virtue of having interviewed leaders ranging from entrepreneur […]

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