From the monthly archives:

July 2010

1 Year Anniversary

Social Media

It’s been a year since I launched Laurinda On Leadership!  What an adventure it’s been learning all about social media.  I started out 2009 wanting to grow my speaking career.  A mentor of mine suggested I write a book. “Just write a small book, get an ISBN and self-publish” he said. It didn’t matter that [...]

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A Must Read from Ron Edmondson

Personal Development

Pastor Ron Edmondson wrote a post today entitled “10 Problems with Doing the Best You Know How.”  There’s lots of wisdom in this article and  felt I needed to share it. You can get to it by clicking here.

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4 Temptations of Leadership

Self-Leadership

Pride Don’t start believing the hype.  We live in a culture of hero worship. The great leaders we’ve become to idolize in our American History have been morphed into invincible men and women without weaknesses. However, you can study any leader and discover their weaknesses.  Athletes and performers are instant role models but yet some [...]

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Independence: One Tough Decision

Leadership

My favorite scene from HBO’s 2008 mini-series “John Adams” – the drafting of the Declaration of Independence: The fragile alliance between the colonies would have disintegrated  if the issue of slavery was brought into the decision to separate from Britain. To make the choice to focus on independence, while leaving the slave trade and ownership [...]

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