Life's Leadership Lessons: October 2, 2025
Learn how to be a better manager, why Q-Tips are important in your career, your communication process is wrong and much more...this week in Life's Leadership Lessons.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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📖 To Read 📖
» The importance of Q-Tips in your career
[the best leadership newsletter ever]
» AI is a mirror. What do you see?
[the ai philosopher]
» I knew this day would come
[serious literary artist]
🎧 To Listen or Watch 🎥
» Your communication process is the problem
[the best leadership podcast ever]
» The science of turbulence [video]
[wall street journal]
» Why it’s so hard to delegate
[hbr ideacast]
This Week’s Featured Friend: JONNY TOOZE
» Don’t stop
» Ideas are easy
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This Week’s Poll
» VOTE NOW!!
Last week’s poll
» Your absolute favorite bean is… BLACK BEAN (44%)
OK, OK... I got the question wrong. I admit it. In my mind I was thinking “legume” not bean. Many people corrected me in pointing out that the best bean is NOT, in fact, a black bean, as it is either a coffee bean or a jelly bean. You are correct. I am wrong. Can we move on now?
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The Sage reply..Boom!!!