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Back to reading #leadership. 🙂

“Data-based systems import the biases of their builders and the larger society. Data is not blind. Data is us, just reduced to binary code.” - Andrew Ferguson

Quite thought-provoking. Are any data truly objective? #bigdata

I've always been of the mindset that in any field, we are raising up our replacements for the next generation...

Lorin Woolfe writes, "The ultimate test for a leader is not whether he or she makes smart decisions and takes decisive action, but whether he or she teaches others to be leaders and builds an organization that can sustain its success even when he or she is not around." - The Bible on Leadership

Your Character Determines the Trust

"When you went to school, 60 percent was probably a passing grade; or if your school had particularly high standards, maybe 70 percent. When it comes to trust, the only passing grade is 100 percent. If people can't trust you all of the time, then they will consider you untrustworthy." - John Maxwell

"...my life began changing when I stopped setting goals for WHERE I wanted to be and started setting the course for WHO I wanted to be. I have discovered for others and me that the key to personal development is being more GROWTH oriented than GOAL oriented." - John Maxwell.

"Without a man in his life to call him up to the next step of manhood, your son will camp out on the adolescent step as long as he can." - Dennis Rainey

"One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without the guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys." - Dennis Rainey

"An honorable man is always respected, whatever the color of his uniform, the stripes on his sleeve, or the title on his business card." - Colonel Jeff O'Leary

"It is said that you can accomplish anything in the world as long as you don't care who gets the credit."

"Most growth happens as a result of many small steps. The key is to keep taking them."

A wonderful story that Josh and I are reading together. A compelling look at a facet of our nation's history through the eyes of a man that rode the orphan train. History that is never discussed in school.

"God's grace invites you - no, requires you - to change your attitude about yourself and take sides with God against your feelings of rejection.". Max Lucado

"Saving grace saves us from our sins. Sustaining grace meets us at our point of need and equips us with courage, wisdom, and strength. ...sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God." Max Lucado

Excited to read this book! The upcoming webcast is going to be awesome!

Experience has shown that men who are the happiest and most content in their masculine role today are those whose fathers invested a great deal of time and energy in their lives. - David Stoop and Stephen Arturburn, "The Angry Man." From Chapter 3 of Raising a Modern Day Night.