Happy birthday to the greatest country on earth! But, will what made us great keep us in our lofted position?
The men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 right here in Philadelphia were farmers, businessmen, preachers, and tradesmen. They sacrificed business pursuits to meet together and hack through the jungle of opinions, rumor, and just plain untruths to create a new democratic republic founded on guaranteeing certain essentials to everyone, including: life, liberty, and ...
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Some people believe that child discipline is what happens when parents get angry at their child’s behavior.
The truth is that discipline is NOT about punishment or anger; it is about teaching your child and helping him or her to learn and receive guidance as to what kind of behavior is and isn’t acceptable. Children need to be taught how to control themselves and shown how to behave in a responsible manner, because they don’t have such knowledge on an instinctual level. Positive discipline ...
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Do you always look to the same group of people in your organization to generate ideas and solve problems? Sometimes you’ve got to widen your view. At BigHeads Network, a think tank that advises major corporations, a diverse collection of designers, inventors, musicians, and artists helps organizations devise new solutions with an approach based on diversity.
Here’s how CEO John Palumbo described the process in a recent story in Investor’s Business Daily:
Ask people what they know. ...
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It's Fathers Day. By the way, is it supposed to be Father's Day, Fathers Day, or Fathers' Day? Hmm...
Anyway, here's another day set aside by well-meaning folks to sell you golf equipment we're not trained to use, ties we'll don't want to wear, cards that retell the obvious, and a bunch of other stuff for the "man who has everything."
What do I want this Fathers Day?
Faith in Someone who walks with me through the dark valleys and guides my decisions each day.
Hope for a tomorrow ...
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When I was 13, my folks took our family on an extended trip to the Seattle World's Fair. My home state, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, was the beginning point of an adventure that would cover over 3,000 miles and last over a month. The story gets better.
The adventurers included my parents, my brother, my three sisters, and a minister's daughter my parents brought along to keep us in line. Our vehicle was a 1960 Ford station wagon that could hold nine. So, eight people in the car was a piece ...
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