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This article was originally published by Forbes here. For decades, people living under communism sought to escape their countries and flee to the West. The communist governments went to extreme lengths to keep their citizens from leaving. The most famous example of this is the Berlin Wall. During the reconstruction of Berlin that followed the war, it soon became evident to…
Content from this article was originally published by Forbes. There is an old adage that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Or, as Mike Tyson has famously said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” I don’t know about you, but during the pandemic, I felt like all my plans were punched. In our…
This article was originally published by Forbes here. As I’ve gotten older, I’m faced with fewer decisions that have clear-cut answers. Part of being a leader is that more difficult questions come to you, and those questions typically involve a lot of gray areas. The hard decisions are rarely those between good and bad or right and wrong, but between…
This article was originally published by Forbes here. When I was a kid, I used to love watching the G.I. Joe cartoon series. At the end of each episode, there was a public service-like message with a helpful life tip that ended with a character saying, “Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.” That counted as sage advice…
