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John Maxwell’s Success: One Day At a Time

This book contains excerpts from his previous books Failing Forward:  Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success, The 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leadeer:  Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow, The Success Journey:  The Process of Living Your Dreams.  He says the secrets of success are:  Dream (what he in other books calls Vision); Persevere (don’t give up);  Grow (develop yourself).  Tastefully done illustrations matched with bon mots of wisdom.  Excerpts in this issue’s Leadership Lessons section.

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Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest

This is the wittiest play I know.  John Worthing lives in the country with his young-lady ward, Cecily Cardew, and her fussy teacher, Miss Prism.  To escape, Ernest pretends to have a young profligate brother named Ernest who lives in

London, frequently gets in trouble and needs him.  When in

London
, Jack then uses the name Ernest.  But then he falls in love, and one day also a friend in town discovers the identity of Cecily.  With friend Algernon sneaking visits to Cecily, John and Algernon’s cousin secretly engaged, and Algernon’s mother (Gwendolyn’s mother) Aunt Augusta trying to maintain control and stop anything, and meanwhile all commenting on social status and manners, the play, especially if played dryly as if the actors find nothing at all funny about the script, can leave the audience shrieking with laughter.

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William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”  Still true.  One of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, this one focuses on mixing humans and make-believe creatures of fantasyland.  Well-meaning fairies interrupt a human romance while having their own arguments among themselves.  And a group of tradesmen practice a home-made drama under the stars in the forest, where they think no one will bother them.  A good time is had by all and, of course, this being a comedy, all are happy in the end.

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