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Leadership Development is Personal Development. All videos, articles, podcasts. and posts on my Substack are dedicated to helping you achieve those ideals. And all draw on history, philosophy, classic literature, and extensive business experience.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Defines Reality (opens the original)
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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” Max DepreeThe alarming rates of mental illness in western society, exacerbated by the debilitating burdens of loneliness, stress, and anxiety so common in our postmodern secular world, inevitably have a deleterious impact on people in the workplace, as well as the community at large. The implications for leadership are significant.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3YP9!,f_auto,q_
Ten Leading Questions. Ten 100-word answers (opens the original)
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Ten years ago, I set out to see if I could write succinct yet useful answers, just 100 words each, to general knowledge questions relevant to leadership development. The result was more than 100 X 100-word answers for the cultural literacy and inspiration so essential for leaders. Here are ten of them:1. What is the meaning of life? Your answer depends on your worldview, that is, your understanding of how things are meant to be. Your worldview is the framework for all your beliefs, values, and a
Don’t Let Social Media Muddle Your Mind (opens the original)
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“The algorithm is trying to capture the perfect parameters for manipulating a brain, while the brain, in order to seek out a deeper meaning, is changing in response to the algorithm’s experiments; it’s a cat and mouse game based on pure math. Because the stimuli from the algorithm don’t mean anything, because they are genuinely random, the brain isn’t adapting to anything real, but to a fiction. That process – of becoming hooked on an elusive mirage – is addiction. As the algorithm tries to esca
A brief critical thinking test you might like to try (opens the original)
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“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion 1985 - 2000<img a
Cynicism Strangles Leadership (opens the original)
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“Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention…For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, ‘What is your idea, in infesting the sea?’ And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insole
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