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Creative Leadership
Do You Have “4am Courage?”
In filmmaker Ken Burns’ remarkable series on the Civil War, historian Shelby Foote described General Ulysses S. Grant as having…
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Creative Leadership
What Are You Willing to Risk to Inspire Change?
I was in Greensboro, North Carolina a few years ago and visited the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Located…
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Creativity
That Fear in Your Gut? It’s Not Going Away
We spend an enormous amount of time trying to live without fear. We read books about being brave, take classes…
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Creative Leadership
The Surprising Moments That Make Great Leaders
We’ve often seen the epic moments of leadership when someone like Steve Jobs would take the stage to introduce a…
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Creativity
Do You Have The Courage To Speak Up About Your Ideas?
We don’t normally think of the bravery of creative artists these days. In other areas, while the media may consider…
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Strategy & Marketing
Do You Have the Courage for Long Term Thinking?
In today’s cluttered and distracted world, short-term thinking rules. Social media allows instant commentary and criticism, and email, text messaging,…
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Creative Leadership
Seth Godin’s Advice on Nit-Pickers: Pastors and Leaders Need to Read This
My friend Seth Godin wasn’t writing this for pastors, but when I read it, I realized pastors were exactly the…
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Creativity
What’s Your Opinion: Should We Own What We Think?
Anyone who has a blog or posts regularly on the Internet will agree that the most critical comments almost always…
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Creativity
Real Creativity Takes Courage
I’m thinking about writing a future book on the amount of courage it takes to make creativity happen. There’s been…
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Creative Leadership
The Power of Moral Courage
I define the term “moral courage” as a set of personal principles you live by that are unchanging. Some people…
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