leadership | leadership
Sep.14.2012
Food for thought (to go along with my 2010 post Psychology of Presidential Ambition):
"Overall, the study found, presidents tended to be more like psychopaths than the general population in their level of fearless dominance, but they didn't show a psychopathic excess of impulsive antisocial...
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Sep.11.2012
In December of 2001 Nancy and I were invited to the Admiral's annual Christmas party at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. It had a strange, surreal feeling. Security was extreme. The ballroom was lit with Christmas lights, the tables decorated, the band music was festive, but...
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Sep.05.2012
My latest book on leadership and self development, Grab the Brass Ring, was released on September 3, 2012, and is available in paperback and for Kindle at the following links:
Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Grab-Brass-Ring-Successful-Fulfilled/dp/1479249521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8...
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Sep.01.2012
The Oil Man, tall and lanky with dark hair and gray sideburns, showed up the other day and said the oil companies in California’s San Joaquin Valley ``are terrified and I’ll tell you why – it’s taking 40 barrels of water to pump out one barrel of oil these days.
``It’s dry, and in some places...
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Aug.18.2012
A compassionate, intelligent, perceptive white woman who had never before written a novel captured a white glimpse into a small but representative segment of black culture in a way that lit fires in the minds of millions of readers and boosted a movement already in motion.
If a black writer...
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May.07.2012
You know how sometimes you read a book and it changes your entire perspective on the world? I want to introduce you to the author of a book on my personal list of those books. The book is Tribal Leadership and the author is Dave Logan.
Dave and my husband, Abraham Mertens, became friends over the...
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Apr.12.2012
"All I was trying to do was get home from work."- Rosa Parks
Back in the day they knew how to build a woman. For instance there was Joy. I would see her around the Chicago Seed office, but I didn't know her very well. She had a shock of wild kinky hair that floated over her like a...
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Apr.06.2012
A catchy title perhaps, but one I wish more people would give concern to. Let's look at the big picture:
What is one of the first things we think about when we think of history? "Wars" usually pops right out there doesn't it? Okay, how about today?...
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Jan.28.2012
In spite of her family being homeless one 17-year-old girl has stayed focused. Samantha Garvey recently discovered she's being considered for a national prestigious science award, and hopes to get a full scholarship to college to study marine biology. Read her story on my Living in the Heartland...
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Jan.16.2012
PLUS Model Magazine, according to an article by Tamara Abraham for the United Kingdom-based online blog Daily Mail, has sparked controversy. See if you can guess what the controversy is from the accompanying photograph. Then check out my Living in the Heartland blog to find out more.
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