Tag: leadership
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Crazy (your name here),
Can you imagine the mocking and judgmental comments being aimed at Noah and his three sons as they built the Ark? Now for context, the argument can be made that the people on earth had never seen rain. (Genesis 2). Certainly the people of the day had not experienced floods. So it is reasonable to…
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King for a Moment
“And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?” Mark 8:36 NLT The insidiousness of pornography. The evil that knows no bounds nor recognizes power, position or economic status. How is this possible, you ask? Jed York, the 46 year old owner of the San Francisco 49ers was…
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How Long Will You Wait
I remember sitting in a conference room at a manufacturer in Shenzhen, China in 2002, making the comment, “we are seeing a trend in America,” to which the company’s representatives looked at each other as the translator delivered my words and chuckled with one another. When I asked why they chuckled, the General Manager replied…
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“The young know everything. The middle-aged suspect everything. The old believe everything.” Oscar Wilde
I had a reporter reach out to me and ask what I would say to someone who is older competing for jobs in today’s corporate environment. My answer. “Experience is your greatest asset. Your ability to contribute experiential knowledge helps build the asset side of the company’s Balance Sheet. As you compete for the position,…
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I got ya.
We’re entering a time period where there is very real risk of the emergence of the most cynical generation(s) in history. We have witnessed truth become a possessive determiner of ‘my truth.’ The undeniable traits of gender and genetics now a political football. All for the purpose of manipulation for votes and misunderstood ‘power.’ Now,…
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Blue Suits & Red Ties
In the early 1990’s, I was a young manager entrusted with senior executive level oversight, that I was ill prepared to handle. I had to learn quickly and literally, on the job. I became an obsessive reader, committing to read a book a month for continuing education because I worked for a small early-stage company…
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Trust the Fog
It will clear and the vision will be beautifully revealed. “”Please sir, the weight is too great for my branches to hold. Please put some braces under them to help support my fruit as it grows to maturity.” The apple tree said to me as I looked at the broken branch dangling from its trunk.”…
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Changes in Attitude, Changes in Latitude
“I was lucky that I was always smart enough to realize that if I wanted to be a better man, I needed to hang out with better people.” Wendell Weeks, Corning CEO The great American philosopher Jimmy Buffet defined so well how attitude determines our altitude with his profound lyrics “It’s those changes in latitudes,…
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Be careful. You might get what you ask for.
“I Have a Dream, a song to sing To help me cope, with anything If you see the wonder, of a fairy tale You can take the future, even if you fail I believe in angels Something good in everything I see I believe in angels When I know the time is right for me…
Myron Speaks 