We are all in this together books on leadership and teamwork
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We are all in this together books on leadership and teamwork
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Legend has it that when the 12th century English monarch Uther Pendragon died there was significant disagreement over who would succeed him. The wizard Merlin magically set a sword in a great stone. Engraved on the sword were the words “Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone is the rightwise born king of all [...]
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The answer that relies on the fewest assumptions is usually the most accurate.
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Cecil Rhodes, of Rhodes Scholarship fame,
who had noting to do with this.
Lord knows why it was deleted from Wikipedia.
Rhode’s Law
When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose [...]
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Here is a word I admire so much, I’ve named this blog in its honor. I am particularly fond of “an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus” as an apt descriptor for these posts.
eructation – a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth
belch, burp, burping, belching
ejection, forcing out, expulsion, [...]
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…even if Branson and the Google gang are in some bar snickering “April fools” over their Stella Artois every time some wide-eyed reporter approaches them. Have two. Or ten. Like buying a lottery ticket, it’s a license to dream big.
“For thousands of years,
the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains [...]
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