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Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is uncertain. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans …
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"[The] original lyrics were kind of a portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world wide-eyed and purposeful. I added the themes of reconciling the boy and man in myself, and the difference between what people are and what others perceive them to be - namely me I guess." -Neil …
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Think for a moment about a great leader you knew…or maybe know…how did he/she make you feel? Great leaders lead emotionally. Leadership is not only intellectual; it is also emotional…great leaders ARE inspiring! Great leaders build people up…stoke their passions…and rouse their emotions…Relooking at Daniel Goleman's book Primal Leadership as we prepare a few projects at …
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“America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega …
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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” – Vincent van Gough Leadership is in crisis. Strong words perhaps, but being a ‘leader’ is a privilege yet many of our leaders …
“There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.” -Yuval Noah Harari Innovation is not about tech and it's not about tools--sorry business model canvas (mission model canvas), design thinking, …
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Leadership Strategy- in today's world of "leaders" it is often quickly set aside, disregarded, or viewed as antiquated. Perhaps it is my own baggage that I carry, but without strategy how does a leader know where s/he is going or where the organization is headed? That said, there is still something unseen in a true …
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“A critic is a legless man who teaches running” Channing Pollock “A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.” Kenneth Tynan (English theatre Critic, 1927-1980) “It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic” Winston Churchill I guess as …
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All Along the Watchtower...can a remake, copy, be as good of better than the original? Innovation is not always about creating something entirely new. This is a great story--when you read what Bob Dylan had to say about Jimi Hendrix and what he did to the original version...two very different artists with incredible respect for …
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Wow… who does not love this song? It peaked at #71 on the UK singles chart, and was an elegy for Neil Young's first car, a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse. This was apparently a different hearse than the one Stills spotted Young driving around Los Angeles in 1966 which led to the formation of Buffalo Springfield. Neil's beloved Pontiac hearse, "Mort" (a.k.a. "Mortimer …
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