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Rather than a feel-good look at leadership, Tim Irvin’s Derailed draws your attention to the flaws and failures of leaders. Drawing from articles from various well known news sources, Irvin uses profiles of six CEOs to point out real life examples of these deficiencies. Using this information, Irvin explains how you can avoid the character [...]

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Rep. John Conyers finally admitted what we already knew, that our elected officials on Capital Hill don’t read those pesky pieces of paper that turn into laws and taxes and even wars because it’s just too darn hard: “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers. “What good is [...]

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Some of the best books that I find are recommendations of others.  I will share mine if you share yours. My Summer reading has included Biographies. Condi: The Life of a Steel Magnolia by Mary Beth Brown, One Soldier’s story a Memoir. It has on its list The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the fall of [...]

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Smitty’s Current Read

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