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Repression is Not the Way to Virtue

[Oct 4, 2005] - "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing. Only through freely choosing discipline can life be enjoyed, and still kept within the bounds of reason. If a person learns to control his instinctual desires, not because he has to, but because he wants to, he can enjoy himself without becoming addicted."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Don't Aim At Success

[Oct 3, 2005] - "Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."

- Victor Frankl

Forward to the Past

[Sep 30, 2005] - "And the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time."

- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Leadership Dynamics

[Sep 29, 2005] - Which of the following Leadership Dynamics are you committed to lead in?

           - Personal Leadership
           - Family Leadership
           - Community Leadership
           - Team Leadership
           - Executive Leadership
           - Business Leadership
           - Industry Leadership
           - Political Leadership
           - Spiritual Leadership

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Thought of the Day

[Sep 28, 2005] - "This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and, as I live, it is my privilege - my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

- George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the Day

[Sep 27, 2005] - "In organizations in which mutual trust does not exist, people are cautious, less open, less satisfied, less influential, more distant, and more inclined to leave at the first available opportunity."

- Kouzes/Posner

Thought of the Day

[Sep 26, 2005] - "I believe there's no neutrality in business (for example, you're either gaining market share or losing it). Likewise, your business success is either enhanced by trust or held back by distrust. . . . trust becomes a performance multiplier only when the leader is prepared to go first."

- Craig Weatherup CEO, PepsiCola Co.

Thought of the Day

[Sep 25, 2005] - "We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, and the right people in the right seats - and then they figured out where to drive it."

- Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great

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