I recently traveled to Brazil which required a total of 48 hours in airports and on airplanes, so I bought David McCullough’s recent book The Wright Brothers and loaded it on my kindle. I thought I needed an old-fashioned story closer to my generational understanding. I had just designed curriculum for a West Coast university […]
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“Everyone wins when a leader gets better” – Bill Hybels Have you every read a blog or an article and you say, “I wish I had written that!” Well, this is one for me. I immediately thought I would pass it on, even in a world where it seems everyone has something to say about
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Trivia Question: What do these countries have in common: Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, South Sudan and East Timor? Answer: All are new countries since 2000! And the newest of them is South Sudan which is also the poorest. Imagine this landlocked country with 12.2 million people (and 60 major ethnic groups), newly independent in 2011,
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It is graduation time in America – first college and then high school. In an age where it is all too common to tell grads that they can do whatever they set out to do, and other “sweet nothings”, Bill Gates recently tweeted some no-nonsense advice to new graduates (May, 15 on his Twitter page:
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