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Every leader has their own style on leadership.  Let's collect some of these for your consideration.  Some apply to work, some at home, some in life.  Teachers are leaders, together with parents, supervisors, CEOs, generals, and presidents.  Not all have all qualities.  Which do you have? How to lead. 1.      Lead by example. 2.      Lead by doing. 3.      Lead by showing. 4.      Lead by courage. 5.      Lead by decisiveness. 6.      Lead by inventing. 7.      Lead by vision. 8.      Lead by inspiration. 9.      Lead by listening. 10.   Lead by optimism. 11.   Lead by truthfulness. 12.   Lead by reliability. 13.   Lead by self-belief. How many leadership skills do you have? The great teacher may have skills of inspiration and listening, but what about inventing?  The general may have skills of being decisive and having courage, but what about vision and listening?  You see, leadership captures some aspects but not others.  This is why leadership is am

B EWARE the sentiment “reimagine”.   Lately, we’ve all heard so many politicians, frustrated with outcomes in some venue lament, “Let us reimagine …”   This very statement has basic implications. Foremost, it indicates an open call to make a big change, a fundamental change. It betrays little or no knowledge of what to do, nor ideas of what change of direction to take.   It demonstrates confusion and naivety.   .   It signals lofty and open-minded aspirations, but it betrays ignorance, as in a problem never before considered. When at the “reimagine” stage, you are not even to the “concept” stage, let alone the design, testing, and validating stages. You are at no-where’s-ville.  Here are a few examples heard on various news reports.   Note how helpful they are. ·         Smartphones cause compulsions. Compulsions cause confusion. Confusion causes anxiety. We should reimagine cell phones. ·         Our bridges are badly in disrepair, beyond recompense. We should reimagine bridges.

  The Expert's Paradox, simply stated is: "The more experts we have the more problems we have." How can this be? The resolution is simple. It takes some expertise to really “know what is unknown.” Without expertise, the knowledge explorer can hardly know what questions beyond the most basic to ask. And the answers to those are mostly known. While it may seem that more knowledge should decrease open questions, it is the opposite that’s true.

The best any parent can do is to teach the three L's. They are    Live, Love, and Learn Community, family, and teachers all play an essential role in this equation. In rare cases, the parent can teach all three.  No surprises. In fact, the three L’s are the principal factors of every life.   ·         To live: This is the scope of your time on earth. It includes all you do, all your relations, all your dreams, and all your works. For example, you can live in a gossipy world of others or live in your personalized world of events. ·         To love: Love is the highest order found in living. It is that emotional feeling toward your life and its relations.   It is essential for the full realization of living. Many lives have no love, and without it, the life has less enrichment, stunted from higher possibilities. ·         To learn: Learning is the engine of life. It guides us toward fulfillment, improvement, and enlightenment. Too many seek the comfort of relying on early

  Testing Features. We are constantly taking tests, giving them, or reading about them.   Let’s get the outcomes straight. That is, let’s learn the testing buzzwords.   In this way, you’ll know what to look for when somebody proposes a test for something, or gives you some test results.   For example, COVID-19 testing is replete with hidden meanings and outcomes. ·         Sensitivity : Ability to test correctly for the disease (or whatever). ·         Specificity : Ability to test correctly for no disease (or whatever). From these we have ·         True positive: the test is positive for disease and disease is present. ·         True negative: the test is positive for no disease and no disease is present. ·         False-positive: the test is positive but no disease is present. ·         False-negative: the test is negative but the disease is present.   ·         Validity : test measures what it is supposed to test. There are at least five types of validity: o    F

  The Pollinator . Another way to view the teacher is that of a pollinator . She picks up knowledge, the pollen of intelligence, and transmits it to students where it germinates into full understanding. The teacher is the carrier, but it is the student who absorbs and digests it, creating understanding for an improved life. Neither is the center of this symbiosis; each needs the other. It’s become a natural mating essential for humans and many other species where learning advanced skills for life are crucial.

L ife has highs and lows. It is during those low points you may sometimes say, "I give up; I give in."  Even the greatest among us have the same sentiments. However, few have ever made greatness by giving in.  Here are a few quotes from those of note on just this.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Abraham Lincoln ---------------------------------------------- My fluid dynamics professor once said to me: "Just when your back is ready to break, the break-through comes."  -----------------------------------------------  Hang on, Snoopy. Snoopy, hang on.   --------------------------------------------- - Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison  ---------------------------------------------- Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspi

  Interesting observations and facts about religions - a bullet lecture. ·         They can be accepted, understood, and believed at all intelligence levels. ·         They allow multiple interpretations. ·         They encourage decent relations between people. ·         They posit an answer to the most basic question, “Why we are?” ·         They offer all believers a pathway to eternal peace. ·         They require faith without physical evidence. ·         They allow and suggest miracles have a divine origin. ·         They need the advent of historical prophets. ·         They reject contemporary prophets. ·         They need martyrs. ·         They require or hope for, secular signs.

WE are all familiar with the word “solve.” In fact, much of what we do is solve problems over a spectrum of circumstances. Every profession presents an array of problems to be solved, and often one’s ability to solve problems is a direct measure of their success. That “solve” is an important word is amplified by the number of solve-type words by adding a prefix. Here are a few. ·         Absolve: To set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt. (Absolution) ·         Backsolve: To determine the inputs that would lead to a given output in a mathematical system. ·         Dissolve: To mix a solid substance into a liquid so that it becomes included in it. ·         Exsolve: To separate or precipitate from a solid crystalline phase. ·         Persolve: To pay wholly, or fully. ·         Preresolve: To make up one's mind beforehand. ·         Resolve: To make a firm decision to do something. ·         Solve: To find a solution to something that is n

  You may think you know about truth; you may already know a few. You may be interested in how they originate, from the voice of God or mankind. Is the Bible your source? Or Science? Or a trusted author? Let's look at the real sources. Some are solid, but others are vague. We have drafted up a collection of four sources,   knowable, provable, discoverable , and constructible.  The report is on LnkedIn . Or paste into your browser. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/g-donald-allen-420b0315_the-sources-of-truth-activity-6762728013898612736-Nvgo

  The nature of trends often causes us to take calls from the twins, TINA and FOMO, better known as “There Is No Alternative,” and the “Fear Of Missing Out."

Never underestimate the power of ONE. ·         In business, one page is enough. ·         In admonition, one sentence is enough. ·         In summary, one paragraph is enough. ·         In dieting, one sweet is enough. ·         In life, one true love is enough.