Leap Year Lesson #117: Humor Can Be an Indicator of a Healthy Team

There are different ways to evaluate how well a team fits together at work.  There is the obvious measure of whether they get the work done that they are expected to do.  What are their goals and how successfully do they accomplish them?  Without that, other means of evaluation don't matter much. In addition to …

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Leap Year Lesson #113: There Is Always Someone Wiser Than You

I’m writing this post from somewhere over Russia.  It will take a while to process all that I have experienced these past eight days in China.  I’m not sure how this experience will impact my future, my values, my hopes and dreams, my perspective on world affairs, or my faith and the practice of it.  …

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Leap Year Lesson #112: We Are More Alike Than Different

If I have learned anything so far on this trip to China, it is that humans are more alike than different regardless of nationality.  Sure, externals can be radically different.  I don't look like any native Chinese I've seen.  Still, there are so many experiences that are the same across cultures that it is a …

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