A man married for a year, a father to two daughters, a man who says he has learned how to give up independence, learned how to yield, how to listen, how to be patient.
Thomas Jefferson, the country's third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence, learned Arabic using his copy of the Qur'an and hosted the first presidential iftar, marking the end of the daily fast during Ramadan.
The darlings have been fretting for some years now that they may be rendered unnecessary if women get financial and biological independence, learning how to reproduce and refinance without them.
At Princeton, I have grown into my independence, learning to take charge of what I want to do, who I want to be and become, and how I want to grow here.
Instead--however poorly it has worked in my case--scientific training seems to be mainly about cultivating independence, learning to get by without external rewards.
If you choose to win through design or invention, everything must inspire and enable independence, learning and enjoyment (and flexibility) per Groysberg et al's "The Culture Factor".
Best in class design/inventing organizations are marked by the relative independence, learning, enjoyment (and flexibility) of their specialized artistic leaders thriving with freeing support led by chief enablement officers leveraging inspiring principles.
Make sure your culture is aligned with your strategy: Independence, learning and enjoyment (and flexibility) for design; Stability, results and authority (and independence) for production; Interdependence, order and safety (and stability) for delivery; Flexibility, purpose and caring (and interdependence) for service.
The "yes" campaign gained 6% in the final two months of the campaign; it only just lost.Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party and the architect of independence, has learned that script.
A well-designed constitution is not enough to ensure a stable democracy — a lesson many Latin American independence leaders learned when they borrowed the American constitutional model in the early 19th century, only to see their countries plunge into chaos.
This time, 10 years older and strengthened by the independence I learned overseas, I decided it was time to come home.
