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***DETERMINATION 
"The winner ain't the one with the fastest car, but the one that refuses to lose." --Ralph Earnhardt, to his son Dale Earnhardt

***STRATEGIC THINKING
"Business is like war in one respect.  If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made." --General Robert F. Wood, President of Sears Roebuck, who in the 1920s directed the mail-order catalog giant's move into the retail store business.

***POSITIVE THINKING
"If you are always noticing failure and hard times, you will combine with failure and hard times."--Florence Scovel Shinn

***TRUTH
"Lying is done with words and also with silence."--Adrienne Rich

LEADERSHIP LESSONS

***LEADERSHIP OFTEN INVOLVES "POLITICS."   John Paul Jones, who today is called the Father of the American Navy, spent countless days in America and France trying to persuade someone to give him command of a ship.  He wrote letters, cultivated and flattered influential people, courted individuals in authority who often did not even deign to see him or answer his letters, used his connections as a freemason to get help from brother freemasons, was humiliated when less capable men where chosen for faster and better ships.

Benjamin Franklin experienced many ups-and-downs, all the while carefully promoting himself--including writing articles that he published under pen names. He regularly used his friends and associates to advance his projects and ideas.

Abraham Lincoln was described by his law partner thus: “The man who thinks Lincoln calmly sat down and gathered his robes around him, waiting for the people to call him, has a very erroneous knowledge of Lincoln.”

***THE GIFT OF SIGHT

"There were about 800 registered automobiles in the U.S. in 1898.  That number grew to about 8000 in 1900--a very small number but a huge percentage gain.  That little statistic foretold vast businesses to be begun, new services to be offered, and enormous fortunes to be made--for those who had eyes to see what it meant.   

Be on the lookout for such a statistic that describes your world today. Look for movements and shifts when they are just getting under way." Excerpt from my seminar: MACROFORCES AND THE 21ST CENTURY, FACING AMERICA'S FUTURE   

LINCOLN'S LOG

One of the finest paragraphs on Abraham Lincoln ever published came from the pen of Shelby Foote. 

 Foote wrote a brilliant trilogy on the Civil War, and his witty, perceptive comments in Ken Burn's monumental PBS special brought him fame.  We talked a couple of times when I was writing The Words Lincoln Lived By. He was always helpful and kind.  He would amble along with that soft Southern voice of his that I had learned to love listening to him on his audio books and on TV.   

He would tell little stories about Lincoln, Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and other personalities that he had lived with for years.  We talked about a popular biography on Lincoln that had been considered for a National Book Award. 

Foote, who was involved in the judging process, told me:   "That author has just one problem.   He can't write." 

When Foote was young, few picked him to become an intellectual, and certainly not a celebrity.  He spent two years at the University of North Carolina, a school that admitted him despite his high school principal's message to admissions officials: "Do not let this boy into your school. He's a disruptive influence, and everything possibly that could be wrong with anybody is wrong with him."  

According to one account he spent many of his college days reading in the library.  

Foote died just a few days ago at his home in Memphis. In tribute to him, The New York Times reprinted excerpts from several of his writings, including the following:   

"People hardly knew what to make of this tall, thin-chested, rawboned man who spoke with the frontier in his voice, wore a stove-pipe hat as if to emphasize his six-foot, four-inch height, and walked with a shambling Western slouch, the big feet planted flat at every step, the big hands dangling from wrists that hung down out of the sleeves of his rusty tailcoat...The seamed, leathery face was becoming familiar; the mole on the right cheek, the high narrow forehead with the unruly, coarse black shock of hair above it, barely grizzled; the pale gray eyes set deep in bruised sockets, the broad mouth somewhat quizzical with a protruding lower lip, the pointed chin behind its recent growth of craggly beard, the wry neck--a clown face; a sad face, some observed on closer inspection, perhaps the saddest they had ever seen."

TRAVEL NOTES FROM A ROAD WARRIOR
***SAVANNAH
The Gryphon Tea Room located in Savannah's wonderful historic district is a lovely place to stop and absorb the old town's beauty.  It was once a turn-of-the-century pharmacy on the ground floor of the Scottish Rite building, and you can still see Masonic codes that were worked into its design.  There are stained glass windows, a carved mahogany clock and Tiffany-style lamps.  The servers need some training in customer service, but their scones served with cream and jam are as good as you'll get in England's West Country, and that's saying a lot.  The scones come with a seasonal fruit salad and a pot of tea (or coffee) for just $7.95.  Try to get a table in the small, raised area that looks out on Madison Square and Bull Street. Forrest Gump sat on a park bench waiting for a bus not far away. 337 Bull Street; Phone: 912 525 5880 

***HIGHLANDS, NORTH CAROLINA
This part of the Appalachians is strikingly beautiful, and nowhere has the environment been treated with greater love than in Highlands and the hamlets that surround it.  Long known by well-heeled, knowledgeable travelers as a destination, there are, as you would expect, several fine restaurants to choose from.   

This trip I chose Ristorante Paoletti.  I ordered Cannelloni all'Emiliana--homemade crepes filled with veal, spinach and ricotta; baked with Bolognese meat sauce and creamy béchamel.  It was the lightest cannelloni I have ever put in my mouth. The pecan-crusted grouper was spectacular. 

A footnote:  Be sure to read the descriptions of the wines, written by general manager David Cohen. Here's the
 way he described one of the featured wines:  "generous fruit and rose petal nose leading to chocolate-covered
 cherries dipped in ecstasy.   Blueberry, cherry, and raspberry dance for the tongue while the wine finishes with
 soft but lingering tannins."

Don't even think about getting in without a reservation.  440 Main Street, Highlands, NC, 28741, 828-526-4906

***The Dillard House
Located just a few miles from Highlands on 441, the main highway to Atlanta, there's a wonderful old eating establishment that serves some of the best Southern cooking you will ever taste.  They've been serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner since 1915.  I visited at lunch and watched young servers heap my table with some 20 dishes of excellently prepared creamed corn, fried chicken, BBQ, country ham, okra, Brunswick stew, red beets, butter beans, cole slaw, corn bread, honey and biscuits.  They told me to eat as much as I wanted, and if I emptied a bowl, they would bring another. This is a great place to sample Southern cooking that's well-prepared.  A bargain--less than $20.00!   Old Dillard Rd., U.S. 441/23, Dillard, GA 30537, 800-541-0671

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