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5 Cures for Leadership-loneliness « Leadership Freak

12 Reasons you’re a lonely leader-

1. Going too far too fast
2. Waiting for people to appreciate you
3. Faking who you are
4. Shutting others out
5. Sharing conclusions rather than processes
6. Not building a support network
7. Expecting agreement and rejecting dissent
8. Believing leaders are omniscient and omnipotent
9. Emotionally investing in unexamined ideas
10. Using people for selfish reasons
11. Not building a culture of ownership
12. Investing more in projects and programs than people

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The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know

Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick

Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before

Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion

Thou Shalt Tell a Story

Thou Shalt Freely Comment on the Utterances of Other Speakers for the Skae of Blessed Connection and Exquisite Controversy

Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy Failure as well as thy Success.

Thou Shalt Not Sell from the Stage: Neither thy Company, thy Goods, thy Writings, nor thy Desparate need for Funding; Lest Thou be Cast Aside into Outer Darkness.

Thou Shalt Remember all the while: Laughter is Good.

Thou Shalt Not Read thy Speech.

Thou Shalt Not Steal the Time of Them that Follow Thee

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Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps - CNN.com

There's nothing inherently wrong with parents wanting to appease their daughters by buying them the latest fashions. But is getting cool points today worth the harm dressing little girls like prostitutes could cause tomorrow?

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Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps - CNN.com

It's easy to blast companies for introducing the sexy wear, but our ire really should be directed at the parents who think low rise jeans for a second grader is cute. They are the ones who are spending the money to fuel this budding trend. They are the ones who are suppose to decide what's appropriate for their young children to wear, not executives looking to brew up controversy or turn a profit.

I get it, Rihanna's really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her.

I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend.

Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it."

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Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps - CNN.com

Abercrombie & Fitch came under fire this spring for introducing the "Ashley," a push-up bra for girls who normally are too young to have anything to push up. Originally it was marketed for girls as young as 7, but after public outcry, it raised its intended audience to the wise old age of 12. I wonder how do people initiate a conversation in the office about the undeveloped chest of elementary school girls without someone nearby thinking they're pedophiles?

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Brilliant failure | PRI's The World

Learning from failure

Iske says he found that many who went through bankruptcy were so traumatized, and so stigmatized, that they never tried to start a business again. But those that did, Iske notes, often succeeded because their failures had taught them something.

 

Iske wanted to help others embrace failure, and so he started the Institute, and began offering failure workshops to businesses and organizations.

“We offered one session to the Dutch Foreign Ministry,” remembers Bas Ruyssenaars, the Institute’s vice-president. “And it was a real eye-opener for people, because they’d never discussed their personal experience with failure in such a setting.”

Now, the Institute’s website is a place where anyone can nominate a failure — in business, art, science, and any other area.

Of course, we’re not talking about “tripping over a shoelace” kind of stuff. Brilliance, in failing, has to meet certain criteria.

“What we define as a brilliant failure is something that has been tried with very good intentions,” says Paul Iske.

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Loving Kids That Are Hard to Love - smallyouthgroup.com

Love does not treat every student the same. It is interesting that Jesus gave some of his disciples experiences and teaching others did not get. Only Peter, James, and John joined Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration. (Well, Elijah and Moses showed up, too.) You will invest more in some students than others. I don’t think that is wrong. That is how Jesus modeled ministry for us. But Jesus gave all of his disciples an investment of himself . . . not just his teaching, but himself.

I’ve often wondered what it was like for Jesus on the night he was arrested to wash the feet of Judas Iscariot. Surely Judas was hard for Jesus to love. And yet . . .

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Nigeria’s Muslims Angry with Poll Results - The Botswana Gazette

Nigeria’s poll results have displaced 15000 people and left 276 wounded, as violence broke across 13 Nigerian states. The violence broke out when angry opposition supporters from the Muslim region were not happy with the poll results which were announced Saturday night on the national television that indicated that president Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling party was in the lead with ten million votes and had only two more states to be announced. The opposition started setting fire to homes bearing banners of the ruling party, gun shoots could also be head in the streets. Youths armed with clubs and machetes were targeting people who did not look like they were indigenous to the north.

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