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The Refining Cycle: Steps to Life-Long Growth
Read more: The Refining Cycle: Steps to Life-Long GrowthYou may have been through a crucible experience, a gut-wrenching, even humiliating experience. It may be a business or professional failure, or it may be a health or family challenge. Whatever it is, the course of your life has forever been changed. You have faced the fork in the road: whether to wallow in the…
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Finding Hope Beyond the Crucible: Three Amazing Heroines
Read more: Finding Hope Beyond the Crucible: Three Amazing HeroinesA crucible is a cauldron where metals are thrown together and heated to very high temperatures. The metals combine to form an alloy, something that is different than it was before. A crucible experience is one that is life-altering. Who you are after your crucible experience is different than you were before. You are never…
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What is the ‘Beyond The Crucible’ Podcast?
| PodcastRead more: What is the ‘Beyond The Crucible’ Podcast?‘Beyond the Crucible’ host Warwick Fairfax shares the lessons he learned from losing a $2.25 billion bid to take over the 150-year-old family media dynasty he had be groomed to run since birth. From that “crucible moment,” he discovered a new vision for his life, one rooted in helping others overcome painful setbacks in their…
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Adapt or Die: How Netflix Took Down Blockbuster
| RealityRead more: Adapt or Die: How Netflix Took Down BlockbusterOne of the most cautionary tales in recent corporate history is how Netflix embraced change and Blockbuster didn’t. As of 2018, Netflix, barely 20 years old, had a stock market value of nearly $165B, with 130 million subscribers in 200 countries. Blockbuster was out of business by then, having filed for bankruptcy in 2010 after…
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Embrace Change or Be Left Behind
| RealityRead more: Embrace Change or Be Left BehindChange is not easy, which is a major challenge for us because we live in a world that is forever changing. Technology is changing. The market is changing. The culture is changing. Not only is everything around us changing, but it seems that change is happening at an ever-increasing rate.
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Reclaiming My Self-Worth After Losing $2.25B
Read more: Reclaiming My Self-Worth After Losing $2.25BGrowing up in a 150-year-old family media business, my self-worth was inextricably tied to the family business and the family dynasty. I saw my role in life as carrying on the family business to the next generation, and to honor the legacy of my great-great-grandfather, John Fairfax, and my father, Sir Warwick Fairfax.
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Finding Your Self-Worth Outside Your Career
Read more: Finding Your Self-Worth Outside Your CareerFor many of us, our self-worth is tied to our job and career. If we are doing well at our job, we feel good about ourselves. But if we are not performing well at work, life might not look so good. This may seem normal, so what’s the problem? Isn’t this just life?
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Perseverance: The Key to Bringing Your Vision to Reality
Read more: Perseverance: The Key to Bringing Your Vision to RealityLeadership is hard. We may have a vision that we are trying to pursue, but for some reason it’s not happening. We feel stuck. We feel despondent. We don’t want to give up, but what else are we going to do? We might even think it’s time to quit.
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How George Washington Persevered to Lead America to Independence
Read more: How George Washington Persevered to Lead America to IndependenceOne of the great stories of perseverance is the American Revolutionary War and George Washington’s dogged determination to not give in. It was in large part Washington’s commitment to the American cause of independence and his refusal to give up amidst overwhelming odds that was the key to the birth of the United States.
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Gain Lasting Impact from Your Vision: The Jesus Approach
| VisionRead more: Gain Lasting Impact from Your Vision: The Jesus ApproachWe have spoken of how inspiring a group of people with a shared vision is one of the hardest challenges in leadership. Growing your vision is not easy. Having your vision impact the world for generations is perhaps the ultimate goal for a visionary, but such a goal can feel like climbing Mount Everest. Impossible!…
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