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    Timeout for Leadership-your one-minute leadership idea Tip Sheet #29 Avoiding the sin of cynicism Last week I shared with you the content of two signs I always kept displayed in my office.  Namely:  The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and my poster of the cows eating each other’s grass (the grass is

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    Timeout for Leadership-your one-minute leadership idea Tip Sheet #28 Finding fault in paradise      “The fault finder will find faults even in paradise.”   These are the words of Henry David Thoreau in Walden.  These are the same words that I kept in a frame on a shelf behind my desk for the last 15 years

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    Timeout for Leadership-your one-minute leadership idea Tip Sheet #27 A sense of urgency I was pleasantly surprised last week when I was with some younger colleagues when the conversation turned to a favorite topic of mine.  Namely, a sense of urgency.  Both of my friends were lamenting about what they felt was missing in the

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