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Sparta: Where Heroines Outshine Their Valiant Heroes

7 lessons and why pacifists must read Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire — Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire — The Epic Battle of Thermopylae is a historical fiction that retells the world changing battle between Persia, led by king Xerxes I, and the Greek city states, led by Sparta under their king, Leonidas I. The war film, 300, is based on the ancient…

Books Review

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Sparta: Where Heroines Outshine Their Valiant Heroes
Sparta: Where Heroines Outshine Their Valiant Heroes

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

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Beyond the Strategy of Empty Hope

Book Review: Rick Page‘s marketing insights can increase the odds in your favour. — Every one lives by selling one thing or the other. Either you are selling or being sold to. Those who are further on in life’s game of survival have among other skills, mastered the art of selling, early in their journeys. Even though this book has been around for almost…

Project Management

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Beyond the Strategy of Empty Hope
Beyond the Strategy of Empty Hope

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Success Insights From a Late Night Speech

A handful of lessons from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Yale University’s 2019 Class Day Speech. — It was late Sunday night. Both of us have been busy from late the previous night. The early hours of the new day of a new week were rapidly counting up. The FM radio station on the phone was on. I joined her to listen to a lively ministration from…

Serendipity

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Success Insights From a Late Night Speech
Success Insights From a Late Night Speech

Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated

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Abundance Mentality — Your Choice is Your Life

Will you rather choose scarcity when there is so much to go round? — As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. (2 Corinthians 6:10) ~ Apostle Paul Merriam Webster dictionary on my phone defined abundance as, an ample quantity of, relative degree of plentifulness, profusion, and wealth. …

Growth Mindset

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Abundance Mentality — Your Choice is Your Life
Abundance Mentality — Your Choice is Your Life

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An Ode to a Grateful Life

It doesn’t matter whether your cup is half empty or half full, gratitude will always take you much further. — Photo by Hanny Naibaho on Unsplash Yes, I know it. You’ve already had more than your fair share of those seemingly unending tips and hacks for keeping your head above the waters in these turbulent times. Right from our mothers’ wombs to our infant days and all through our early…

Gratitude Journal

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An Ode to a Grateful Life
An Ode to a Grateful Life

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Break The Charm of Malevolent Leaders

Book Review: Professor Jean Lipman-Blumen shows how to escape the allure of toxic leaders. — With the complexities of the world as we know it, don’t know it, and perhaps can never know it, we shall understand one another and ourselves better by seeing the world, from time to time, through one another’s spectacles. ~Jean Lipman-Blumen Be it in business, the academia, national or international…

Leadership

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Break The Charm of Malevolent Leaders
Break The Charm of Malevolent Leaders

May 27

Two Years and 100 Stories After

Transformative encounters, unlearning limiting habits, and learning to reignite the fire within — This week, I published my 100th story on Medium. My productivity has gone up too. That is, if you will call turning in 4 articles per week prolific. Well, isn’t everybody here running his own race? Yes, I’m speeding up now. Or trying to. I discovered Medium around 2015. Then…

Writing

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Two Years and 100 Stories After
Two Years and 100 Stories After

May 23

How Humane is Your Leadership?

2 timeless acts of gracious leadership — Nobody ever makes it to the top by never getting into trouble. ~General Colin Powell In his book, My American Journey, the late General Colin Powell recounted how his illustrious military career was rescued from early flash out. He had mistakenly lost his service pistol while serving in Germany. Two…

Leadership

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How Humane is Your Leadership?
How Humane is Your Leadership?

May 22

These 3 Approaches Help You Trump Life’s Challenges Faster

Simultaneously easy and tough, #3 is often the most neglected — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. ~ Holy Bible (Job 14:1) Life is full of challenges. Life’s grilling challenges are endless. And often daunting as well. These, you already know. At home, you may have issues with your spouse. Your once…

Growth Mindset

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These 3 Approaches Help You Trump Life’s Challenges Faster
These 3 Approaches Help You Trump Life’s Challenges Faster

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How High Will You Bounce?

10 lessons from Barry J. Moltz on bouncing back and making better choices. — Every so often, life throws shocks and hard knocks at every and anyone of us. You might have been spared thus far, but your turn is coming. It is not a case of “ïf”, but “when”. Sooner than later, failure will come dodging your steps. Prepare. Popular wisdom tells us…

Business Books

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How High Will You Bounce?
How High Will You Bounce?
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