Lee Ellis's Blog, page 55
June 29, 2023
Connecting the Dots ��� Your Career and the Organization
Every business has to make strategic choices to maintain relevancy in their competitive marketplaces. It���s also important that you challenge yourself similarly: How do you maintain relevancy at your ever-evolving organization?
Friend and colleague, Pat Falotico shares her valuable experience in her Linkedin article���please check it out and post your comments and wisdom too. ��
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June 28, 2023
Video FAQ – ���How do current events show the temptation to cut corners in character and integrity?���
In this 3-minute video clip with Leading with Honor Founder and President, Lee Ellis, and Speaker|Author|Trainer, Eddie Williams, they answer the question on how easy it is to threaten one���s character and integrity and how we can combat it as honorable leaders.
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June 27, 2023
The Latest Recommendation from Lee���s Bookshelf ��� ���The Last Lion”
The Latest Recommendation from Lee���s Bookshelf ��� ���The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40��� by William Manchester –
In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester���s critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler���s war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill���s finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement.
Please check it out on Goodreads, and if you���ve read this book please post your review and comments below.
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June 25, 2023
Historical Highlight for June 25, 2023
Historical Highlight for June 25, 2023 ��� ���The League of Wives & Families���
Here’s a short historical fact from the history of the Vietnam war and the POW experience shared in the new ‘Captured by Love’ book. In each of these nuggets of history are personal and professional lessons that can be applied today:
���As the years dragged on with almost no information about their men, the POW/MIA wives and families became impatient, then angry, and then motivated to take action. They felt that their men were being put on the back burner, with no concern at all being expressed by our government that the North Vietnamese were violating the Geneva Conventions, which require humane treatment of POWs and release of the names of captives. Most families were living in a horrible limbo, not knowing if their husband, son, or friend were dead or alive.
In late 1968, Sybil Stockdale, the wife of Commander James Bond Stockdale, the senior Naval POW, began to express her concerns. She began to connect with other POW/MIA wives in Southern California. Also, she reached out to her military contacts in D.C. and questioned the policy of keeping quiet. Soon, she connected with wives in other Naval aviation communities across the country.
It began as the League of Wives, but very soon families of POW/MIAs joined in. Their efforts grew rapidly, and in June 1970 the organization was chartered as the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. The League was a humanitarian cause and not in any way funded by the government. With the strong efforts by the League and many organizations supporting their cause, they were able to bring great pressure on Hanoi through millions of letters sent to Hanoi and their envoys at the Paris negotiations. (For more, see the books League of Wives by Heath Lee.)
Thirteen of the wives in this book were involved with the League, and two of them were National Chairpersons. And three of the POWs here were not married but had family members involved in the League.
Ultimately, this amazing organization, mostly women, changed the policies of two nations: the US Government (got them to speak up and pressure our communist captors) and the North Vietnam Communists (got them to stop the torture and improve our treatment). Their courageous leadership and teamwork changed our lives forever.���
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June 23, 2023
Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, June 23, 2023
“What the world needs now is love…” – Sung by Dionne Warwick
#VietnamWar50th #WelcomeHome2023 #CapturedbyLove #relationships #leadership
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June 22, 2023
Their Stories Come Alive: The ���Captured by Love��� Audiobook
Narrated by co-authors Lee Ellis and Greg Godek as well as voiceover actor Michael Orenstein, the couples��� stories literally come alive as they share their intimate triumphs and challenges.
Over 8 hours long and perfect for listening during Summertime travels!
Click Here to listen to a sample and purchase on Amazon.com
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June 21, 2023
Honor Code
Over 100,000 leaders have downloaded this helpful tool – get your free copy
#leadership #leadershipcoach #leadingwithhonor
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June 20, 2023
How can supervisors lead teams during times of crisis, challenge, and change?
Friend and colleague Dr Mary Kelly provides some fantastic nuggets of wisdom on leading during times of crisis, challenge, and change ��� check it out and post your tips below, too.
Read the article on her website, Productive Leaders
(Image used with permission)
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June 18, 2023
Historical Highlight for June 18, 2023
Historical Highlight for June 18, 2023 ��� here’s a short historical fact from the history of the Vietnam war and the POW experience shared in the new ‘Captured by Love’ book. In each of these nuggets of history are personal and professional lessons that can be applied today:
The Hanoi Hilton Prison System
The name ���Hanoi Hilton���1 was probably the first of many examples of sarcastic humor used to lighten the heavy load of captivity. POW number two, Navy LCDR Bob Shumaker, used a burnt match and toilet paper to make a note which he dropped at the latrine. New POW Capt. Ron Storz picked it up and read, ���Welcome to the Hanoi Hilton; if you get this note scratch your balls on the way back.��� The name seemed to stick, even though the real name for this prison was ���H���a L����� and the sign on the front entrance said, ���Maison Central.��� It was a bastille-type prison built in the 1890s by the French colonialists during their occupation. It covered an entire city block in downtown Hanoi. Its walls were about 15 feet high and three feet thick with embedded shards of broken wine bottles at the top plus high-tension electric wires. Armed guard towers were in each corner. No one ever escaped from the Hanoi Hilton.
Inside the Hilton walls were several buildings. At some point, most of us lived in the Little Vegas complex, but other areas were appropriately named: New Guy Village and Heartbreak Hotel, as they were used for isolation, interrogations, and torture.
The Hanoi Hilton operated as the hub for all the camps. The other two main Hanoi camps were the Zoo (Pigsty, Office, Stable, Garage, etc.) and the Plantation (Gunshed, Warehouse, and Corn Crib). Those are examples of how we named camps and buildings. But, we also gained a small victory over our captors by nicknaming them���for example, Greasy, Stoneface, Fidel, Groucho, Flea, Jawbone, Ichabod, Lump, Elf, Oddjob, Dummkopf, Rat, Fox, and Bug. Besides the humor of these names, they also greatly helped us communicate with clarity in covert communications.
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(Photo: Lee went back to visit the Hanoi Hilton Museum in Vietnam back in 2014.)
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June 16, 2023
Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, June 16, 2023
���Human beings are designed for relationships. We all want to have good relationships���they make us feel valued, special, important, and happy.��� ��� Lee Ellis
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