Well, here is yet another plug for TEC, now known as Vistage, the CEO/Entrepreneur support group. It acts to support business leaders lead with confidence, courage, and integrity while avoiding costly mistakes and decreasing decision making time. You meet monthly with your group and get the type of assistance that a private Board of Directors could offer you if you were powerful enough to have a private Board of Directors. Here's the link if this kind of group sounds interesting: Vistage.com.
Last night I was writing about what you would say, if you knew the whole world was listening to you for ten minutes. I thought, "wouldn't it be great if we could assemble all the stories together to find out what humans know to be true."
Well, synchronously, today at my Vistage meeting, the leader suggested I check out "This I Believe," an NRP show. Well, I just logged on. Here is what the program is about per the NPR website:
This I Believe® is an exciting national project that invites you to write about the core beliefs that guide your daily life. NPR will air these personal statements from listeners each Monday.... By inviting Americans from all walks of life to participate, series producers Dan Gediman and Jay Allison hope to create a picture of the American spirit in all its rich complexity.
This I Believe is based on a 1950s radio program of the same name, hosted by acclaimed journalist Edward R. Murrow. In creating This I Believe, Murrow said the program sought "to point to the common meeting grounds of beliefs, which is the essence of brotherhood and the floor of our civilization."
In spite of the fear of atomic warfare, increasing consumerism and loss of spiritual values, the essayists on Murrow's series expressed tremendous hope. ...
..."As in the 1950s, this is a time when belief is dividing the nation and the world," says Allison about life today. "We are not listening well, not understanding each other -- we are simply disagreeing, or worse. Working in broadcast communication, there's a responsibility to change that, to cross borders, to encourage some empathy. That possibility is what inspires me about this series."For the full text: link here: npr.org/thisibelieve/about.
I'm going to enter a submission before my next meeting. I think you should too.
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