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Category: LLR Historical Examples
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With just about the lowest amount of fanfare possible, my new book Leadership Lessons from the Age of Fighting Sail was released this month. I have been so busy with my duties at Life Leadership that I was able to give exactly zero thought to the launch and promotion of this book. My efforts in that direction…
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There is much to learn from everyone. In particular, when someone has achieved phenomenal results in life, much can be gained from a study of their triumphs and tragedies. Over the course of the past 18 months, I have been consistently studying the lives of many different high achievers. These have ranged from musicians and…
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In the early 1800s a boy named Frederic Tudor was on a trip to Havana, Cuba and had a thought. As he stood in the sweltering sun he wondered if people there would be interested in a cold drink. This little insight stuck with Tudor and he would grow up to pioneer the shipping of…
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Count Baldassare Castiglione, in the 15th century in Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) wrote about a concept packed into the Italian word: sprezzatura. Officially meaning nonchalance, Castiglione took the definition of sprezzatura a bit further, explaining that the best courtier, or gentleman, was capable of incredible adroitness at things, but yet at the…
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It should go without saying that you should know what you're doing in order to do it. But a surprising number of people and even companies don't seem to know what their main purpose is. There are two groups, however, that can always be counted on to understand this perfectly well: 1) customers and 2)…
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It at first seems odd that Leonardo da Vinci is so revered today. None of his sculptured works have survived, and only around a grand total of fifteen of his paintings are known. Although he wrote a lot about architecture, no buildings anywhere are credited to his name. Dispassionate scientists have long debated the originality…
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The United States government was still calling the involvement of U.S. military personnel in Viet Nam a "police action," but from the intensity of the fighting in the la Drang Valley that day of November 14, 1965, it certainly looked like a war. Especially to the battalion of American soldiers pinned down by so much…
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For hundreds of years, England held sway over Ireland. Their hegemony ranged from tyranny and brutal murder to loose control, but always, generation after generation, there was the yoke of English rule. Lands were taken from peasants and given to rich English nobles. Religious war and cruelty were common. Favoritism, power hunger, greed, fraud, and…
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John Wycliffe was a fourteenth century Oxford scholar. Charismatic, fluent in Latin, and a major philosopher and theologian, Wycliffe was living the life of a sequestered intellectual professor. He was well respected and ensconced in the halls of academia. For most, that would have been the end of the story; but not for Wycliffe. …
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Born in 1910 Agnese Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Uskub, Ottoman Empire, she was the youngest child in a family from Albania. At age eight, when her father died, she began attending a Roman Catholic church. By age twelve she was convinced her life would be a religious one, and she became fascinated by stories of…
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