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Cracked Leaders Apply Here

No one is perfect and few fully adjusted. In other words, most of us are like cracked pots: We have the promise of potential but with a few leaks and if the strain gets too great our insides show. The goal isn’t to repair the cracks – they’re life long – but to make our inside beautiful so that when we’re strained people experience grace instead of grief. After all, isn’t that the kind of leader you’d want leading your enterprise?

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How to Build a Career While Creating a Life

It’s said to be “more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.” In this light the demand to know direction and “do something” isn’t always a leader’s best counsel. In fact, the busyness of doing can get in the way of the business of being and become a way to defer taking a look at yourself.

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Your Life is Calling. Are You Listening?

Think it might be true that our life is shaped to do a particular thing? What if it were possible to know “that thing?” Would you be interested?The question comes largely from my own journey, as does the answer. But I’m joined by a host of others who agree that our lives aren’t meant for aimless wandering or to be filled with unsatisfying work.

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