Tag: American Dream
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Leadership Stories: The Importance of Storytelling
Storytelling has always been the most effective way to deliver a message about human behavior. There’s a time and place for everything My father was never one to walk away from a fight. As a young teen, he heard some kids being disrespectful to an elderly woman and he quickly stepped in and taught them a…
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Leadership Stories: Refuse to be Discouraged
For three days, he traveled only at night and rested in caves with a sack full of bread, cheese, and peppers, and his revolver. When he had finally crossed the border from what was Yugoslavia into Greece, he felt that he was one major step closer to realizing his dream of making it to America. His…
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Leadership Stories: Things are not always what they seem
All outward appearances were that this old lady should not be taken seriously. Unfortunately for the salesperson, she had honed her negotiating skills with more than 10,000 hours of experience. Here is the story. A Master at Work One of my favorite things to do with my grandmother, Baba Vickie, was to go shopping. It didn’t…
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Leadership Stories: The Value of Hard Work
From a young age, I was taught that there is honor in any job well done and that there is opportunity around every corner. All it takes is a goal, a desire to get there, and a lot of hard work. My family’s story is the embodiment of the American Dream: If you work hard,…
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Leadership Stories: The American Dream
The Bedtime ritual at our house usually finishes with “Dad tell me a story”. I try to tell stories that illustrate to our children who we are, where we came from, and to instill lessons that my family passed on to me. As I tell the stories, it is very clear to me how they have impacted my life,…