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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Has the Dalai Lama read Lee Cockerell’s “Creating Magic” leadership book?
Doesn’t matter, does it? What matters is do you read leadership books? Perhaps the best one ever written (besides the Bible), is Lee Cockerell’s “Creating Magic: Ten Common Sense Leadership Strategies From A Life At Disney”.
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PS. Books are free at a library , or you can borrow them, or skip a few vending machine visits and buy one on Amazon. Or is there some excuse reserved exclusively for you?
Was Randy Pausch sent by the Dalai Lama? Sounds ridiculous and it doesn’t even matter. Randy Pausch came into the lives of millions five years ago.
He died four years ago yesterday. Five years ago he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. They gave him six months. He extended that to about a year. His Last Lecture on You Tube and his book helped shape a personal renaissance.
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PS. This has so much subtlety with leadership… and it’s almost a sure bet you’ll miss that.
Ask a dying man and he’ll have a ready answer…”Who’s more important, your Parents or your Children”?
Today, I pause for moments of silence…in memory of Randy Pausch…father of three children (ages six and under), when he was given six months to live.
He died July 25, 2008. Now his three children are all ten and under.
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The easiest way to quickly gain incredible insight about a person is to ask a question you have discerned should have an easy, rapid, and ready answer.
For example, want to know if a leader is self-centered or others-centered, ask, “Who’s more important to you, your parents or your child(ren)?”
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PS. Am acutely aware some readers are not parents. I get it. That fact, though, doesn’t change the overwhelming reality that our species continues because people reproduce offspring. Please take it for what it’s worth.
The number one reason being a leader is like being a parent. Drumroll please…. When you are not a parent, you think you are the most important person in the world.
When (or if) you become a parent, you gain an amazing insight… you are no longer the most important person in the universe. A servant leader discovers this the moment other people’s careers are more important than their own.
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PS. If you are destined for any reason to never be a parent, the revelation in this post may never become profound. Dismissing it doesn’t make it false, it simple discards one of life’s brilliant phenomenon.