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Daniel R. Murphy | Benjamin Franklin Self-Improvement Project
Self-improvement is a foundation of leadership. If leadership is to have meaning over time, to be sustainable, it requires continuous attention and effort.
This is not a new or novel idea.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous of the American founders, wrote extensively about the need to engage in continuous self-improvement. His life’s work can be seen as an ever expanding act of leadership and service, built upon his own project of self-improvement, reaching ever greater numbers of others.
From the vantage point afforded by the distance of two centuries, we recognize the value and relevance of Franklin’s project. One might well say that self-improvement is part of our national DNA. It is a recurring strand of practical idealism that makes us unique, renders us one.
In the article that follows, Daniel R. Murphy distills the essence of the Franklin method. –jms
Irene Becker | Against All Odds
In this post, acclaimed success coach Irene Becker shares her personal leadership journey.
How would you summarize Irene’s journey, as recounted here? My one sentence: Persistence and resilience can build a bridge between adversity and excellence.
What is your leadership journey? Do you recognize aspects of your experience that coincide with Irene’s?– jms
Self Made? No. Self Created? Yes.
"Self Made Man," Bobbie K. Carlyle
Noted leadership expert Mike Myatt recently wrote an excellent post: “Self-Made Man—No Such Thing.”
Is the declaration in the title correct?
‘The Annotated Emerson’ by Philip Lopate
Daniel R. Murphy: Keys to Success from a Small Business Owner
Mike Sykes
You do not have to be CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation or a nationally known speaker on success to understand what makes people successful in business and life.
With his wife Josie, Mike Sykes is the owner of Mike’s Heating and Air-Conditioning in Albany, Oregon. Sykes’s business has received high recognition from its peers, including being selected as Small Business of the Year by the Albany Chamber of Commerce.
Wisdom from Legendary Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn
Legendary business and financial leader Carl Icahn discusses his philosophy and approaches to corporate governance in a fine interview in Breaking News.
‘Theodore Roosevelt CEO’ by Alan Axelrod
Alan Axelrod is an exceptionally prolific author–with sixty books to his name. Among them are several which distill lessons from historical figures for application by contemporary business audiences.
His latest, Theodore Roosevelt CEO, aims to make the example of one of America’s greatest leaders accessible to 21st-century readers.
Thunderbird Reagan Seminar, Gorbachev Speech
Making History: Combining Visionary Imagination with Clear-Eyed Realism.
Thunderbird School of Global Management, along with O’Connor House, is convening a historic event on Saturday, April 28th. Mikhail Gorbachev will address “Global Leadership in the 1980s: USSR and USA.”
Prior to the President Gorbachev’s speech, Thunderbird is convening a “President Ronald Reagan Centennial Seminar on Leadership and Improving Government Effectiveness.”
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