A Blog in Review

Much has been written about leadership: rules, pointers, styles, and biographies of inspiring leaders throughout world history. But there are certain leadership ideas that we ourselves fail to recognise and realise in the course of reading books. Here is a short list of things to remember about being a leader:
1. Leaders come in different flavors.
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It’s a talent that everyone has, yet they think they don’t. The power of innovation. If you’ve ever marvelled at somebody’s creative prowess, guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time. Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten were not limited to those who possessed potential; because the [...]

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Read Part 1 - How it all began 
A couple of chapters into the book “Retire Young, Retire Rich” I discovered I really needed the book “Cashflow Quadrant” to better understand what was going on.  This is the gist of what I learned in ”Cashflow Quadrant”:

There are four ways to make money:
1. As an employee - which was what I [...]

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Appreciation…  it’s so easy to give and it can do so much to brighten a person’s day, yet we hardly ever offer it.  Going through life, it seems that we are so pre-occupied with the negatives in life - what everyone is doing wrong that we never acknowledge the positives - the things that others [...]

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Sometime back I wrote a post about Mac Anderson’s “You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School“.  Recently, Simple Truths created a short video clip on this story which you can view here.  It’s one of the good ones you really have to watch.  Enjoy.

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“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
— Debbi Fields: Founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
Indeed.  I have discovered that my fear of losing has become so great that it is [...]

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The Dash is a beautiful poem written by Linda Ellis.  It serves as a good reminder to us that it is not important what we do for a living but how we live our lives.
Mac Anderson from Simple Truths has converted The Dash into a book so that this poem may continue to inspire others.  [...]

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Everytime I visit a restaurant here, I am often disappointed by the service afforded.  It is rather disgraceful to note that even the supposedly better restaurants have such poor standards.  One of the few places that has managed to catch my attention, however, is Starbucks.  Yes, the coffee is expensive and I have to stand in [...]

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Below is an amusing story sent to me through email.  It is too clever for me not to post its message, so here it is: 
A Chinese man walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer.  He tells the loan officer that he is going to Taiwan on business for [...]

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