A Perfect Fit
By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: As a
May 21, 2013
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: The “What
May 12, 2013
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What’s My Line?
By Jim Whitt This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: What’s My Line? was
May 7, 2013
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That the Powerful Play Goes On
By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 4 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: In the film
May 1, 2013
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Learning to Walk Upright in a Four-Legged World
By Jim Whitt This is Chapter 3 from my series from The Transformational Power of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life: A headline in
April 24, 2013
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The Road Most Traveled
By Jim Whitt “Two roads diverged in the wood,” wrote Robert Frost. And I — I took the one less traveled by. And that has
April 8, 2013
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Are you Unbreakable?
By Jim Whitt The following is the Introduction to The TransformationalPower of Purpose: Finding & Fulfilling Your Purpose in Life. In the film Unbreakable, Bruce
April 3, 2013
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Glory Riders ride again
On Friday I’ll be back in the saddle again with the Glory Riders in Fort Worth’s Parade of Lights. Last year over 450,000 people lined
November 22, 2012
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Culture Matters
By Jim Whitt I just read an article by Bill Barnett in the Harvard Business Review entitled When Choosing a Job, Culture Matters. That is
May 16, 2012
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Useless College Degrees
By Jim Whitt I read an article that listed the five most useless college degrees and found out my degree is number four on the
April 11, 2012
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What you can learn about purpose from a HOG
By Jim Whitt My friend Don Riley sent me this email after the holidays: Hi Jim, Hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday
January 24, 2012
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PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Purpose Taken Somewhere Distant?
By Jim Whitt In response to my December 14 issue entitled Lessons on PURPOSE from our armed forces, I received this email from my friend
January 15, 2012
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Lessons on PURPOSE from our armed forces
By Jim Whitt I received this email from my friend Peter McGuill: Jim, Hope all is well. I was thinking of you earlier today. I
December 14, 2011
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God and science: Is there a conflict?
By Jim Whitt I’ve tackled politics and sports in my last two articles so I thought what the heck, why not write about religion. If
October 12, 2011
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The Big 12: A case study on how to destroy a partnership
By Jim Whitt If you’ve read Riding for the Brand: The Power of Purposeful Leadership, you know there are four principles for leaders to follow
September 22, 2011
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The seeds of solution are found inside our problems: Let’s get to farming
By Jim Whitt The seeds of solution are found inside our problems: Let’s get to farming I have good news and bad news. First the
September 19, 2011
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Ask, listen and act: You’ll be amazed at what happens
By Jim Whitt I had no idea what a great listener Kent Stroman was until he wrote a book entitled Asking about Asking: Mastering the
August 17, 2011
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Leadership Lessons from the Mideast
By Jim Whitt All of us are probably watching what’s been happening in Libya, Egypt and the rest of the Mideast with conflicted feelings. We’d
April 7, 2011
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Do You Have Organizational Sclerosis?
By Jim Whitt A friend of mine who was attending the South by Southwest festival in Austin emailed this summary of one of the sessions
March 23, 2011
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Déjà vu All Over Again
By Jim Whitt On Groundhog Day one of the cable channels was running the movie, Groundhog Day, back-to-back all day. This was appropriate since the
February 2, 2011
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Money and Motivation
By Jim Whitt Just how effective is money as a motivator? Research conducted by MIT, the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon reveals that monetary
October 27, 2010
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