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REJECTION LEADS TO FATIGUE
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
—COLIN POWELL, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY
SIR KEN ROBINSON’S BRILLIANT PRESENTATION titled How Schools Kill Creativity is the most watched TED talk of all time. Over forty million people have tuned in since he delivered it in 2006. Sir Ken makes an intriguing observation: “Kids will take a chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go. Am I right? They’re not afraid of being wrong.” In the TED talk, Robinson speaks primarily about creativity, suggesting that corporations stigmatize mistakes. “If you’re not ...
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