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“A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.” - George Orwell - 1984 Could just be me (a lot of times...it is) but don't we need …
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An updated version of this post can be found published with GiANT Worldwide as well. ________________________________________________________ “Now is not a time for sadness and despair, but a time for heroes, champions, in great deeds” -anonymous We talk about heroes, and we all have certain images come to mind. It might be an image of …
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By J. William DeMarco Status quo or in Latin statu quo is literally..."the state in which." Several years ago I attended commander's conference hosted by a Major General. The General was quick to make the point that there are three kinds of commanders: 1) Those that make the organization better 2) Those that make the …
Over the past few weeks I have been doing a good bit of reading, thinking, and note-taking on the USAF’s Core Values of integrity, excellence, and service, and thought it time to actually try to come up with something worthy of writing and then I came across a couple thoughts while reading a Bible study. …
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar By J. William DeMarco What do you want to be remembered for? When you die wouldn’t it be great if people would say, “I was so blessed to know him/her. I thank God for …
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“Whatever a man directs, if he knows what he wants and can get it, he will be a good director, whether he directs a chorus, an estate, a city or an army.” -Socrates (Xenophon - Memoirs of Socrates) One of the essential keys to leadership is strategy. Great leaders MUST be strategists first. This is …
NT3: No Time to Think No time to choose when the truth must die No time to lose or say goodbye No time to prepare for the victim that's there No time to suffer or blink And there’s no time to think. -Bob Dylan Perhaps we should all have an ever so slight …
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view original / .com Aug 1st 2012 DeM Banter: huge Colin Powell fan.... 2007 Summit speaker Colin Powell has learned tough lessons in his career as a 4-Star general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Security Advisor, and former US Secretary of State. In his new memoir It Worked For Me: In Life …
By J. William DeMarco I hate to admit this, but the other day I was in the gym and a song by Katy Perry came on..."The One that Got Away.” Now, I am NOT a fan (it was forced on me...I was in the gym), but there is a line in the song...”...us against the …
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