When Tom Cruise climbs out onto the Burj Khalifa or free solos up a cliff for a scene in one of his Mission Impossible movies, we love it.
When Jackie Chan does his own stunts in any of his action films, we’re enthralled.
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Step Up And Lead
Reiss Nelson is a 20 year old up and coming English footballer, who plays as a Forward for my club, Arsenal FC.
On Saturday, he came on as an attacking substitute in the 82nd minute of the 2020 Community Shield game, the traditional season opener when the prior season’s League Champions (Liverpool this year) play the FA Cup winners (Arsenal). At Full Time, the score was tied at 1-1 and so the game went to penalties.
Don’t Join The Herd
A few years ago, Professor Jens Krause at the University of Leeds conducted numerous experiments where he and his team asked groups of people to walk randomly around a large hall. Unbeknownst to the majority, a few individuals were given specific instructions as to where they should walk. No one in the group (informed or otherwise) was allowed to communicate (verbal or non-verbally) and everyone had to stay within arms length of each other.
Those Who Mistake Kindness For Weakness Are The Problem
I once worked with someone who believed that success in business meant you had to be, in his words, "a cold, heartless bastard".In his world view, vulnerability and emotion were liabilities. You had to maintain a distance with your employees, enforcing a visible, tangible hierarchy, because they had to know who was boss.