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Everybody isn’t everybody.

Bill Walsh

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
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Lists Pixels Publisher Trying
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
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Coaching Jobs Leader
Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.
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Flying Pants
Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.
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Attitude Bad Talent
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.
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Leader Possible Running Time Two
These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.
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Diffuse Diverted Ego Insensitive Manifestations
The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.
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Absolute Organization Practice
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses
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Beginning Caution Quotations
Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that’s the critical factor.
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Country Game People Player Support
Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
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Believe Forever Mentor
90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
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Computer Shots Unnecessary
I’m not one of those “omg texting kids rite bad” alarmists. I just think there’s an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.
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Interesting Kids Thinking
On occasion I omit commas. On occasion, I use them. (The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of these things.)
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Knows Thinking Unbreakable
Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.
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Challenges Consistent Effort
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
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Differences Editing Writing
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
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Class Jobs Thinking

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