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Set in the time of the Jamestown settlement and the English explorer John Smith, Favorite Daughter, Part One recounts the story of Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, as she prepares to take her place as one of our nation's earliest leading women. Pocahontas invites readers to experience her native world when strangers appear on the shores near her village. From forging a relationship with the charismatic Smith, to experiencing love for the first time and creating a role for herself in her father's plans for peace, this young girl takes us on a poignant and harrowing journey through the turbulent events of her life. Eventually betrayed by all of the men she loves, Pocahontas matures into a heroine of tremendous nobility, courage, and heart.
Told in first person, in a voice brimming with compassion and wisdom, Favorite Daughter, Part One provides a compelling look at the early days of one of the most remarkable legends in American history.
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Paula Margulies is the owner of Paula Margulies Communications, a public relations firm for authors and artists. She has received numerous awards for her short stories, essays, and novels, including her historical novel, Favorite Daughter, Part One, her debut novel, Coyote Heart, and her short story collection, Face Value: Collected Stories. Paula is a contributor to a number of blogsites and writing websites, including Author Magazine and The Writer's Edge (writersedgeinfo.blogspot.com). She has been awarded artist residencies at Caldera, Red Cinder Artist Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and Centrum. Paula resides in San Diego, California. For more information, please visit www.paulamargulies.com.
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Salim was invited to make a presentation in Ottawa to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration which he's given me permission to post on our website.
http://ifpscanada.com/content/salim-mansur-presentation-standing-committee-citizenship-and-immigration
Feel free to share with your readers so they can see there are Muslims out there who agree with them that unchecked immigration from Muslim countries might be a problem. :)
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SALIM MANSUR: PRESENTATION TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Salim Mansur, author of "Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism", was recently invited to Ottawa to make a presentation before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. Below are his remarks to the politicians who we elect to safeguard our interests, our values, our country.
HEARING OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION, OTTAWA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012. WITNESS STATEMENT BY SALIM MANSUR "Honourable Members, Many thanks for inviting me to share my thoughts with this Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. I appear before you as a common citizen deeply apprehensive and concerned about the drift of our country as it changes due to the rate of immigration that is without precedent among any of the advanced liberal democracies of the West. My expertise, or to the extent my expertise is recognized by this Committee for which I have been invited to appear before you, is that of a professional academic, a researcher, writer, author and public intellectual of some recognition in this great country of ours, and I am both proud and humbled to come before you as an unhyphenated Canadian. Let me state right at the outset, before I share with you my perspective on immigration, I support all measures under consideration that modern technology provides for in securing our borders, monitoring those who seek to gain entry into Canada, those who arrive here without proper documentation and claim refugee status, and those in legions outside of Canada who want to come here as immigrants. I believe it is a no brainer to work towards a more secure Canada, and to implement smart cards, biometric systems, and other tools available now or will be in the future for the purpose of keeping Canada and Canadians secure from those who would do us harm. I have no doubt on this matter that were we to have the thoughts of our founding fathers inform us, and those remarkable leaders who have come after them such as Laurier and King, Pearson and Trudeau, Knowles and Douglas, they would remind us that a constitution agreed upon by a free people to provide for, as John A. Macdonald put it, "peace, order and good government" is not a suicide-pact. In the small amount of time I have before you I want to stress upon the first principle behind the Immigration policy as it has evolved since the centennial year and presently stand. Needless to remark that Canada is an immigrant country, and our history tells us as we should know it has been immigrants from Europe over the past several centuries that built this country. On the whole they built it well and, indeed, so well that Canada has come to be an eagerly sought country for people from around the world as I did. But, and here is the point, at some stage of Canada's historical development since at least 1867 those who built Canada in the early years of its history could have reached an agreement to close the door to further immigration. They did not. They believed the strength of their country would be maintained through a judicious policy of accepting new immigrants from Europe. But the key point here I want to emphasize, and I have written about this at length in the public media, is they all believed that immigration judiciously and carefully managed (I emphasize manage) in terms of numbers and source origin of immigrants should be such that the nature of Canada as a liberal democracy is not undermined. It is numbers and the nature of numbers that matters and, given the nature of things, determines how existing arrangements are secured or undermined. Since the open door immigration policy was instituted around the time of Canada's centennial year, the nature of immigration into Canada started to change from what had been the pattern since before 1867 to around 1960. During the past fifty years immigration from outside of Europe, from what is generally designated the Third World, has rapidly increased in proportion to those immigrants originating in Europe. Furthermore, given the revolution in transportation with the introduction of wide body trans-continental jetliner that has made mass travel economical and easy the distinction between immigrant and migrant workers has been eliminated. This means, and it is not simply in reference to ethnicity, that Canada is rapidly changing culturally in ways our political elite, media elite and academic elite do not want to discuss. But the fact that this is not discussed, or driven under the carpet, does not mean the public is not keenly aware of how much the country has changed in great measure in a relatively short period, and if this pattern continues for another few decades there is the likelihood that Canada will have changed irrevocably, and not necessarily for the better in terms of its political tradition as a liberal democracy. So in terms of first principle, we need our governing institutions and those individuals we, as Canadians, send to them to represent us, to boldly re-examine our existing immigration policy and re-think it in terms of what it represents and how it will affect the well-being of Canada in the years to come. I do not need to remind you that any set of policy, however benign or good the intent is behind the making of such policy, is riddled with unintended consequences. History is a paradox. What you intend is not how things turn out in the long run, and not even in the short term. Pick any example you want, and think it through and see for yourself the paradoxical nature of history and how it surprises us by confounding our expectations. I have at hand the recent publication of Statics Canada, Projections of the Diversity of the Canadian Population: 2006 to 2031. In other words, this projection affects me now and what remains of my life, but more importantly affects my children, my students, my friends and neighbours in their life time. Your views, as our representatives, are critical and will affect all of us, and you will be responsible in terms of our history, if you take your place in these hallowed halls with the seriousness it demands, for the good and the bad that come out of your decisions. Let me quickly, time permitting, point out from this Statistics Canada publication the following:
* Given the nature of our immigration policy since the 1960s, the foreign born population is growing about 4 times faster than the rest of the population; consequently, in 2031 there will be between 9.8 million and 12.5 million foreign-born persons compared to 6.5 million in 2006, and the corresponding number in 1981 was 3.8 million.
* According to Statistics Canada projection, the population estimated for 2031 will be around 45 million of which 32 per cent, or around 14.5 million people will be foreign-born.
* One more interesting, and yet critical, figure is the cultural/religious make up of Canada in 2031. The fastest growth, according to the report, is "the Muslim population... with its numbers tripling during this period. This increase is mainly due to two factors: the composition of immigration... and higher fertility than for other groups." The figures are for Muslims in 2006 at around 900,000 constituting 2.7 per cent of the population, and rising to in 2031 to around 3.3 million constituting 7.3 per cent of the population.
If the levels of immigration in Canada is being maintained, and defended, on the basis of the needs to deal with the problems of Canadian society in terms of an aging population, fertility rates among Canadian women, skilled labour requirement and maintaining a growth-level for the population consistent with the growth of the economy, then this policy needs to be seriously re-evaluated. We cannot fix the social problems of the Canadian society by an open immigration policy that adds to the numbers at a rate that puts into question the absorptive capacity of the country not only in economic terms but also, if not more importantly, in cultural and social terms and what this does to our political arrangements as a liberal democracy. The March 2012 Herbert Grubel and Patrick Grady study for the Fraser Institute on Immigration and Refugee Policy should end once and for all the naivety that immigrants add in the short and medium term to economic gains for the country. Indeed, the cost-benefit analysis the Grubel-Grady study provides, based on government sources and revenue Canada numbers, indicates immigrants are a net cost to the rest of the society. "The fiscal burden imposed by the average recent immigrants," Grubel and Grady write, "is 6,000, which for all immigrants is a total between 16 billion and 23 billion per year." This is unfair, unsustainable, and disruptive to the Canadian society when set against the demands of Canadians for their needs, especially in distressing economic times as we have been witnessing since 2008. The flow of immigration into Canada from around the world, and in particular the flow from Muslim countries, means a pouring in of numbers into a liberal society of people from cultures at best non-liberal. But we know through our studies and observations that the illiberal mix of cultures poses one of the greatest dilemmas and an unprecedented challenge to liberal societies, such as ours, when there is no demand placed on immigrants any longer to assimilate into the founding liberal values of the country to which they have immigrated to and, instead, by a misguided and thoroughly wrong-headed policy of multiculturalism encourage the opposite. It is no wonder that recently the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the British Prime Minister David Cameron, among other European leaders and a growing body of intellectuals, have spoken out in public against multiculturalism and the need to push it back, even repeal it. I have written a book on the wrong headed policy of multiculturalism published recently under the title "Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism". Time forbids me to discuss this matter at any length, but I would surely hope members of this Committee might take the time and read my book even if they disagree with me. Here I want to leave you in your deliberations to reflect upon the following situation of a paradoxical nature: We may want to continue with a level of immigration into Canada annually that is about the same as it is at present; i.e. somewhere in the vicinity of 300,000 immigrants, refugee claimants, and students and workers under visa provision entering Canada. We cannot, however, continue with such an in-flow of immigrants under the present arrangement of the official policy of multiculturalism based on the premise all cultures are equal when this is untrue, and that this policy is a severe, perhaps even a lethal, test for a liberal democracy such as ours. This means we cannot simultaneously continue with both, the existing level of immigration and official multiculturalism, as they together endanger greatly our liberal democratic traditions. If we persist we will severely undermine our liberal democracy or what remains of it, compromise the foundation of individual freedom by accommodating group rights, and bequeath to our children and unborn generations a political situation fraught with explosive potential for ethnic violence the sort of which we have seen in Europe as in the riots in the ban lieu or suburbs of Paris and other metropolitan centres. In conclusion, I want to emphasize we need to consider lowering the number of immigrants entering into Canada until we have had a serious debate among Canadians on this matter. We should not allow bureaucratic inertia determining not only the policy, but the existing level of immigrant numbers and source origin that Canada brings in annually. We have the precedent of how we selectively closed immigration from the Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War years, and we need to consider doing the same in terms of immigration from Muslim countries for a period of time given how disruptive the cultural baggage of illiberal values is brought in as a result. We are, in other words, stoking the fuel of much unrest in our country as we have witnessed of late in Europe. And lest any member wants to instruct me that my views are in any way politically incorrect or worse, I would like members to note I come before you as a practicing Muslim who know out of experience from the inside how volatile, how disruptive, how violent, how misogynistic is the culture of Islam today and has been during my lifetime, and how greatly it threatens our liberal democracy that I cherish since I know what is its opposite. Thank you. 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Author: Christina Sponias
If you want to make future predictions, you must learn the unique method through which you can change the development of negative aspects in the future, instead of simply learning what is going to happen in the future without being able to correct the development in the best way for you.
Only the scientific method of dream interpretation discovered by the psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung is correct. I continued his research into the unknown region of the psyche, where I discovered the wild side of the human conscience that provokes craziness to the human side.
But don't think that the scientific method can give you only psychological relief.
If you want to have a spiritual experience interpreting your dreams, the scientific method will give you exactly what you need, because the wise unconscious mind that produces your dreams is directed by God, who is simply the unique one who could differentiate himself from the others and eliminate the dangerous and evil anti-conscience, discovering goodness.
By interpreting your dreams and following the guidance you receive, you will learn how to develop your spirituality, reaching wisdom and perfection.
If you want to make future predictions, you must learn the unique method through which you can change the development of negative aspects in the future, instead of simply learning what is going to happen in the future without being able to correct the development in the best way for you.
If you are very worried because you have relationship problems or you are in love and you don't know how to behave, the guidance of the unconscious in your dreams will help you solve the existing problems and help you completely develop your human conscience, developing your intelligence, so that you will be mature and self-confident.
The unconscious mind will send you many dreams with real information about the person you love and show you how you can have a balanced and happy relationship with them.
If you are depressed or feeling that you are losing your mental stability and you want to be cured without going anywhere, without paying your therapist and without fearing that the therapy may not help you, you have to learn how to interpret your dreams with my simplification of Jung's method; since the wise unconscious mind that produces your dreams knows everything about you and is always trying to help you fight the wild anti-conscience that wants to destroy your human conscience.
This is the unique doctor you can completely trust!
If you have physical problems or strange diseases that no doctor can diagnose and no medicine can cure, the interpretation of your dreams according to the scientific method will explain exactly why these problems were formed and what you have to do in order to find health and happiness.
No matter what your problems or desires are you will find the answers you need in the scientific method of dream interpretation, because it is a real translation of the dream messages and because the wise and saintly unconscious mind that produces your dreams is your protector.
Carl Jung studied the meaning of dreams for many years, comparing many dreams and doing research that involved many different fields of speculation in order to discover the exact translation for them. His work was not yet properly evaluated by the scientific world.
Thanks to my research however, Jung's discoveries were proved and many other discoveries made by me explain all the obscure points in his theory.
So, don't believe in any other method of dream interpretation, because the other methods are not a real and accurate translation of the dreams' meaning. They are simply human suppositions and deductions.
Start learning now how to exactly interpret your own dreams using the unique scientific method, which will really help you in all aspects of life!
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When I first started learning NLP, I had a client who wanted to increase his self-confidence. So I worked with him using some of the NLP strategies such as modeling and positive affirmations. In this article I'll be sharing how this was effective and, most important, where I believe that the strategy was completely ineffective for the client and I compared to the VDT principles which I'm exclusively using today to help people develop unshakable self-confidence. If you're interested in how you can develop natural, rock solid confidence without having to undergo, this might be an interesting read for you... The Pros and Cons of NLP Modeling NLP modeling is the method of finding someone who has accomplished the things that you wish to accomplish and who best represents the person you want to become and modeling their behaviors. The up side of this approach is that it challenges a person to become more aware of their own behaviors, their words and their thought process. After all, the more you're consciously focusing on whether or not you're displaying the "right" body language, speech patterns and habits, the more aware you become of yourself and with self-awareness comes power...most of the time. The problem with this approach is that this self-awareness can become self-consciousness VERY fast. After all, it makes you more aware of the contrast between who you are on the inside and this person you're imitating. Deep inside, all of us are who we are, no matter who we try to tell ourselves that we are or who we try to be like. The problem with modeling is that you're imitating, and no one ever achieved greatness through imitation. After over a decade of coaching, I've found that this approach, although providing a good means of putting on a show, doesn't lead to a deeper sense of personal value and of being true to oneself. That's something which can only be accomplished by applying the VDT principle of Clarity... The Law of Clarity for Building Self-Confidence Self-awareness is more important than confidence. The more you understand about yourself, the more you allow for the repressed parts of your personality to express themselves and to mature within the context of real life. As this happens, you begin to grow into the person who you were born to become, and this brings a natural sense of fulfillment and self-assurance. A self-assurance based not on imitation or modeling but based on being true to your deepest desires and drives. This takes longer than modeling, but the effects are MUCH more permanent and it doesn't leave you with the feeling that you are betraying yourself or living as an impostor. This is the most certain and natural path to building rock solid, unshakable self-confidence, and the best time to start is right now. By: Seth Czerepak
If you are interested in the Korean dating scene, primarily dating Korean women then you need to pay close attention to this article. I am about to reveal why you are having a difficult time meeting Korean women, what you should be doing to meet Korean women and at last how not to mess it all up.
We all know how desirable Asian women are. I could write this whole article on the desirable traits that most Asian women posses but you already know that. What is fast becoming popular is how Korean women are now taking the spotlight and getting attention from the rest of the world.
Many men whether they be Korean or Asian, regardless of their race is noticing the beauty, the intelligence and overall charm of Korean women. However unless you already live in Korea you may have a challenging time getting the opportunity to meet Korean women for dating. The reason being is most people of Korean heritage live in Korea. Only 1% of the United States population is of Korean heritage. This, my friend is your problem but here comes the solution.
If you are interested in Korean dating, that is you are eager about dating Korean women then you easiest solution is to explore online Korean dating sites. Whether you are Korean or not Korean is does not matter as online dating has evolved into the most practical, affordable and do not forget the most successful method to dating Korean women.
Not all Korean Dating sites are the same so do not join any Korean dating site unless they offer all these features:
Must offer free basic membership. This is important as you want to be able to test drive the site some before you commit. A quality dating site will have a "Join for Free" option.
Must not only offer members photos but videos, online chat and instant messaging as well. Tools like these are necessary to fully learn about other members, to zero in on the type of person you're seeking and rule out the ones you want to avoid.
Must offer anonymous email option. This serves as a safety precaution and also is a great way to grab someone's attention, we all know the secret admirer trick, and it still works.
Your Korean dating site should be available in Korean and English. The reason for this is many people of Korean heritage are bilingual and this option attracts a much stronger membership. The more members to view, the better your chances are of meeting that special Korean woman to date.
Make sure you upload a recent photo and more than just one as three photos of yourself really gets great response. Your photos do not have to be professional style portraits. In fact it is better that they be more realistic in setting such as you on your job or you active with one of your hobbies. This lets other members view you the way you really are creating a better chance of meeting someone with interests like yours.
The last thing I want get across here, is once you find the Perfect Korean Dating Site take the time when completing your personal profile. Answers all questions in full detail, review what you wrote and make sure it includes all of your fine traits. Remember you are selling yourself, do not tell lies, always be truthful but make sure to elaborate on your finer qualities.
This is the best method to break into the Korean dating scene as you now have all the knowledge needed to make you online dating experience a meaningful and successful adventure.
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Welcome to the May 1, 2011 edition of LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CARNIVAL! I thought it might be a good time to provide an overview of what this Carnival is all about and how it works. WHAT'S A BLOG CARNIVAL?A Blog "Carnival" is a kind of blog community. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. the first Sunday of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors or contributors opinions or remarks.I started this Carnival about 3 years ago, and share the hosting duties with other leadership bloggers every other month.HOW DO THEY WORK?Every Carnival has submission guidelines, and here are mine:"The Leadership Development Carnival accepts posts related to leadership, management, and executive development, leadership, management, coaching, human resources, succession planning, and organizational development. Irrelevant posts will be automatically rejected. Please include a post on your own site promoting the Carnival with a link back. Please submit only one recent (last 2 weeks) post along with a brief (1 line) description."Blog owners can submit posts using the Carnival Submission Form on the sidebar of my blog, or sending me an email with the name of the blog with URL, name of the post with URL, submitter;s name, and email address.I maintain a blind copy distribution list for regular contributors and send out a reminder about a month ahead of time. While I do screen out the spam, irrelevant and poor quality posts, I don't always take the time to carefully read each post and add my own editorial comments. Even for a basic edition, like this month's, it usually takes me about 2 hours on a Sunday to organize, publish, and promote it. If the weather's decent, that's when I get lazy. My excuse for today is I'm fighting a nasy cold. But - I've never missed an edition. (-:WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF RUNNING A CARNIVAL?For me, I use them to maintain a network of like-minded leadership bloggers, provide my readers with a a monthly easy-to-read "best of" series of leadership development posts, and it's a great way for other bloggers to get exposure to new audiences (contributors are expected to pitch in to promote it via their social media channels).So, all are welcome to contribute and I'm always looking for new hosts. There were some suggestions after the last Carnival, hosted by Sharlyn Lauby, that perhaps the Carnival is due for a shake-up. That's fine with me, so if you have any ideas, please leave a comment or email me. Here's the May edition - I hope you enjoy it!We'll start off with a post from JENNIFER MILLER, called "8 Ways for CEOs to Tap Thier Insiders", posted at The People Equation, saying "Management by walking around gets a fresh look with this research that touts productivity gains for CEOs who build relationships with company insiders".Next up is WALLY BOCK, with "You don't "build" people, dammit!", hosted at his Three Star Leadership blog, saying "People are living things. You don't build living things, they grow."STEVE ROESLER presents Real Change: Add Behavior to Your Vision posted at All Things Workplace, saying, "Leading Change means getting beyond the vision and impacting behavior."MARY JO ASMUS presents Reflecting On Your 360 Degree Feedback posted at Mary Jo Asmus.ART PETTY presents Trying Not to Fail Is Not the Same As Striving for Success posted at Management Excellence.SHARLYN LAUBY presents If You're Not With Us posted at hr bartender, saying, "Part of management is being able to help employees manage their workload."MARK STELZNER presents Will I Fit In? posted at Inflexion Point.DAVID BURKUS presents The Designful Leader posted at LeaderLab.ANNE PERSHEL gives us Power: How to Build it over Time & Lose it Overnight, posted at Germane Insights, saying "I learned the hard way to respect the dynamics of power in organizational life. In this post you will read the story and lessons learned."ERIC PENNINGTON presents The Giving Up Thing posted at Epic Living - Leadership Development, saying, "In this post I address the crossroads of "giving up." The reasons we're tempted to give up and the key reasons to keep going are addressed in this timely piece."WILLIAM MATTHIES presents A Macro Business Plan? posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By, saying, "Life guidance will hopefully be grounded in positive ethics."BRET L. SIMMONS presents Employee Empowerment: Why It Matters And How To Get It posted at Bret L. Simmons.Mike Henry Sr. presents a post from DEB COSTELLO called "Inspiration vs. Perspiration" posted at Lead Change Group Blog, saying, "You are a leader in your work whether you have that title or not. People see you do your job. Do you do it joyfully or are you working for the weekend?"MIKI SAXON presents Ducks In A Row: Are You Well-Put-Together? posted at MAPping Company Success, saying, "Based on today's definition, well-put-together is the last thing you want to be."ERIK SAMDAHL presents Dance With the One What Brung Ya posted at Productivity Blog, saying, "Howard Schultz's focus since returning to the helm of Starbucks has been to remind the company of what made it great from its beginnings and, in effect, re-teaching all levels of the company how to execute against its original brand promise."JON INGHAM presents John Lewis' Co-Ownership Model and The Royal Wedding posted at Management 2.0 developing social capital.ANNA FARMERY presents Connecting Bill Clinton, music, Elvis and business! posted at The Engaging Brand.UTPAL VAISHNAV presents Entrepreneurship 30 posted at Utpal Vaishnav, saying, "30 thoughts to know whether Entrepreneurship is for you or not."ADI GASKELL presents Do entrepreneurs think differently? Chartered Management Institute posted at Do entrepreneurs think differently?, saying, "New research into the type of behaviour differences between entrepreneurs and managers."MICHAEL CARDUS presents 2 Kinds of Workplaces. 1 of Paranoia 1 of Trust posted at Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership Blog, saying, "The workplace has the capacity to develop paranoia and/or trust. Psychologically when aroused either mechanism in people readily takes over. They magnify and distort the reality that is separate from our perception and experience."MEG BEAR presents Bring your whole self to work posted at TalentedApps, saying, "Encouraging employees to be full and complete people - with a wealth of experiences, ideas, commitments, values and thoughts to offer your company, is a linchpin for most engagement strategies."LAURA SCHROEDER presents Top Ten Tips for Managers posted at Working Girl.These posts were all submitted by BECKY ROBINSON:From KEVIN EIKENBERRY, his most read post ever. "Five Reasons Why Leaders Need a Closed Door Policy." In it, Kevin proposes the idea that leaders can be more productive and more effective if they use boundaries with their teams. From GUY HARRIS, "Three Clues You Can Use to Find Out What Motivates Another Person." The key to motivating others is understanding what they view as rewards.From BECKY'S own blog, "Share What You Know." Leaders can make a difference by freely sharing their ideas, wisdom, and insights with others. Finally, from the Bud to Boss Community blog, this post from featured blogger PHIL GERBYSHAK: "Communication: Giving Better Directions." In this post, Phil shares some great tips leaders can use to communicate more effectively.DEBBIE OWEN presents How to Bring About Sustainable Change posted at Online Doctorate Degree.CHRIS EDMONDS presents The Leader's Primary Contribution: Discretionary Energy posted at Driving Results Through Culture.JASON PRICE presents The Biggest Lie of Leadership posted at One Money Design, saying, "This post shares an important ingredient of good leadership which is most often not what people see when thinking of leaders."JOE TICHIO presents Inspirational Leadership Quotes posted at Inspirational Quotes Blog, saying, "A collection of inspiring quotes on leadership and being a leader."ROBERT TANNER presents Leading Change (Step 5): Empower Broad Based Action Management is a Journey Blog posted at Management is a Journey Blog, saying, "This article provides strategies on implementing Step 5 of John Kotter's Leading Change Model--empower broad based action."ANDY KLEIN presents A leader's dilemma: What's the best way to influence action? posted at Fortune Group Blog, saying, "Leaders are confronted with two options when trying to influence people to act. To us, picking between the two is an easy choice."BOB LIEBERMAN presents Nobody Wants To Know Me Anymore posted at Cultivating Creativity - Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy.ALICIA ARNOLD presents 5 Ways to Get Out of a Creative Slump posted at Daily Creativity, saying, "Around the globe, innovation is cited as one of the top three leadership skills for the future. This article provides easy to implement tips for increasing personal creativity as a building block for harnessing creativity and innovation with the workplace."That's it for this month's edition. Next Month's edition will be published June 5th, hosted by Jennifer Miller at The People Equation.
