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...meaningful from the banal when he tells his story. Launching a dental program in inner Sydney, Latham revealed to journalists and state politicians that he, too, had teeth and had visited a dentist. Aged 13, he'd chipped a tooth in junior league and had to go and see Nelson Wong in Ingleburn to have it fixed...
...research my book, Confidence, I analyzed the waxing and waning of confidence in dozens of organizations in various stages of success, decline, or turnaround—including Gillette, the BBC, and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa—to understand how leaders create the conditions for high performance. I studied 21 college and professional sports teams with long winning streaks or losing streaks, looking at what happened before and after pivotal games. I tested hypotheses about differences between perpetual winners and habitual losers through surveys of 1200 business leaders and 1500 high school athletes and coaches. It became...
...they go, they hear the message "Old is ugly; old is shameful; whatever you do, don't look or act old!" Until we start a social-change movement to raise consciousness about ageism, none of us are going to relish living to 100--or even to 50. MARIAH BURTON NELSON Arlington...
...state's policy following a 1960 massacre of black demonstrators by police. Three years later he denounced apartheid in a sermon and was kicked out of the church; by the late '70s, the government had banned him from speaking in public and had restricted his movements. Former President Nelson Mandela eulogized Naude as "a true humanitarian and a true son of Africa...
This was one Olympic site that had been completed ahead of schedule--by some 2,500 years. It was free of commerce and awash in sportsmanship. In other words, it was unlike an Olympic event, ancient or modern. It was, as U.S. silver medalist Adam Nelson called it, "shot put Nirvana," held in the house of Zeus. With the sun rising over verdant hills, crowds streamed into the ancient grounds of Olympia, 200 miles west of Athens, for the shot put competition. With no stands and no scoreboard, the stadium stood as it had in A.D. 393, when...