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Wisdom, Leadership & Success
by Pete Bowen
Covenant Leadership Consulting Coaching Speaking Podcast Blog
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5-Wisdom: Why It’s Critical for Your Success
It’s simple. Happiness and success come from high-trust, covenant relationships. We know that from our previous blogs-podcasts. So, what is the best way to develop good relationships? Just do three things: Seek Wisdom Practice Love Get Results The more people trust your wisdom, that you love…
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Learning From Mistakes: Leadership Lessons From Buckwheat and The Cow
I am one of those people who sometimes learns things the hard way—by making mistakes. Many of the best leadership lessons I have learned came while I served as an AV-8B Harrier pilot in the Marine Corps. Sometimes the leadership lessons came in installments. In this case, the first installment…
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4–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness and Success Part 4
In our last blog, we talked about how happiness and fulfillment come from good, high-quality relationships. In this piece, we'll talk about the three basic ways to understand relationships, and find that covenant relationships give us the best chance for happiness and success. Three Types of...
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How Postmodern Critical Race Theory Will Destroy Your Organization and Our Nation
Recent events have put Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the headlines. Companies, government and organizations are engaging CRT without any idea of where it comes from, what it believes or why it is profoundly dangerous. CRT is one of many theories—including Critical Legal Theory, Intersectionality,...
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3–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness and Success Part 3
HAPPINESS AND RELATIONSHIP We’ve got an 80-year Harvard study that says happiness comes from good relationships. There’s a good reason for that. As human beings, we are biologically wired for relationship. Relationship is a fundamental part of our human nature and DNA. Having good relationships...
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2–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness & Success Part 2
HAPPINESS COMES FROM GOOD RELATIONSHIPS Harvard University has been conducting the Study on Adult Development for more than 80 years. It includes Harvard undergrads from the 1930’s and disadvantaged Boston youths from the early 1940’s—and their children. The purpose was to find out what makes…
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1–Seek Wisdom, Practice Love, Get Results: Happiness & Success Part 1
Life can be intense, fast-paced, and complicated. Everywhere you turn, there’s pressure to be successful. At work, we’re supposed to have cool jobs that pay well, and are socially relevant and fulfilling. We’re supposed to be ambitious, enthusiastic leaders moving quickly up the career ladder. As...
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Shut Up, We Don’t Care About You: More Lessons from the Covid-19 Crisis
By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen SON OF A SHARECROPPER In mid-February—just two months and a lifetime ago—my wife and I were in her hometown of Dothan, Alabama, for her high school reunion and to spend time with her father. My father-in-law is the son of a sharecropper without much formal…
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Wisdom Through Humility: Lessons from the Covid-19 Crisis
By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen I learned a few important lessons last week that some might find helpful. On March 17, government-ordered Covid-19 shutdowns reduced my consulting business income to $0 overnight. The same week, two of my three daughters were laid off from their jobs. At the time…
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9 – Wisdom vs. Power: Postmodern Paradigm Part 2
Welcome back to our series, Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives. In this session, we’ll discuss postmodern ideas about relationships, power, rules, freedom and how we develop the young. Remember…
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8 – Wisdom vs. Power: Postmodern Paradigm Part 1
Welcome back to our blog series Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives. The primary reason is that we have three conflicting understandings of life at work in society. It’s like trying to play a game…
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Crisis is an Opportunity to Develop Wisdom
We’re in tough times right now. Two of my three daughters were laid off last Friday. After a well-worded inquiry, my oldest daughter avoided a lay off and transitioned to a new role in her company. Manager of the 3rd shift disinfecting team. My mother is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s, and...
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7 – Wisdom vs. Power: Modern Paradigm Part 2
Welcome back to our second session talking about the Modern Paradigm. Let’s start with a review of what we learned in our first session on the Modern Paradigm. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm was the dominant way of understanding life across all the world’s great societies, cultures…
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6 – Wisdom vs Power: Modern Paradigm Part 1
Welcome back to our ongoing series about the history of the ongoing conflict in America—and how we fix it. In our last three blogs, we discussed the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm—the dominant way of understanding life for thousands of years—for almost all cultures, religions and philosophies. The...
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5 – Wisdom vs. Power: Wisdom Paradigm Part 3
Wisdom Paradigm Part 3 Welcome back to our third and last session talking about the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you know the Wisdom Paradigm, the more successful you can be in all aspects of your life—at work, at home and with your family. For thousands of years, the Wisdom Paradigm had us on the...
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4 – Wisdom vs Power: Wisdom Paradigm 2
Wisdom and Relationships In our last blog, we talked about the basics of the Wisdom Paradigm. The better you understand the Wisdom Paradigm, the happier and more successful you’re going to be in life. Let’s review some of the anchor points from our last session. In the Wisdom Paradigm, culture…
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3 – Wisdom vs. Power: Wisdom Paradigm Part 1
With all the wealth and education and technology that we have today, why does life feel disorienting and confusing? Why are supposedly smart people saying and doing things that are absurd and contradictory? Why do we feel like basic morality has collapsed and we’re headed the wrong direction?...
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2 – Wisdom vs. Power: A Brief History Part 2
Basket-Foot-Golf: How Paradigms Work In our last session, I teased you with some imagery. Imagine walking on an athletic field and seeing a group of people trying to dribble footballs through a sand trap. Take second to really visualize that. To our left, there is a coach talking about the proper...
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1 – Wisdom vs Power: A Brief History Part 1
Lost on a Low Level Flight Back in the last century, when I was in flight school in the Marine Corps, I was stationed for a time in the vacation destination of Kingsville, Texas. At one point, Mother Nature decided to send a massive hurricane our way. With the hurricane inbound, a young…
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Six Anchor Points That Can Make You Successful–and Keep You From Crashing–in Life
Airplane Crashes and Reference Points Almost exactly 20 years ago, on July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn died in an airplane crash off the coast of Massachusetts. The famous son of President John F Kennedy was headed to Martha’s Vineyard for a wedding. A safety investigation...
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The Best 3 Core Values for Success at Work and in Life
In our last blog, we talked about three simple things you can do to build a great organizational culture. The three steps were to: Identify your core values Develop an ethos to practice your core values to create your culture Continually improve your core values, ethos and culture The point is…
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Want a Great Organizational Culture? Do These 3 Things
It doesn’t matter what kind of team you are leading, your organizational or team culture is really important for success. If you have a strong team culture, you will get more employee engagement and productivity, and higher performance. Studies show that companies with strong cultures have…
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Life is a Rigged Game: Love is Your Key to Winning
Life moves quickly. Work. School. Kids. Travel ball teams. Friends. Social media. Keeping up with pop culture and the latest Netflix series. You’ve got to have the right job that combines social consciousness and financial reward. All while saving the environment and being politically conscious…
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If You Don’t Care Enough, You’re a Bad Person: How We’re Killing our Millennials and iGens with Injustice and Guilt
Not long ago, a group of friends of mine were having an email discussion about a problem facing our nation at the time. They’re all good, well-intentioned and successful people. We all agreed that a certain behavior was deeply wrong, but we had deep disagreements about the nature of the problem…
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Why Faith is Critical to Your Business Success: No, It’s Not About Religion
If you are like many people, when you saw the title Why Faith is Critical to Your Business Success, you probably got uncomfortable. We’re not supposed to talk about faith and business together. We’ve been taught to see life segregated into two different areas: your public/work life versus your...
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The College Admissions Scandal and How We’re Killing Our Kids: The Relentless Pursuit of Unhappiness
The college admissions cheating scandal is filling the news lately. I led a college prep high school for 14 years and put three daughters through college myself, so I’ve got some experience in that admissions game. Yes, the college admissions scandal is about cheating. Yes, the college admissions...
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Lessons from the Death of Colin Kroll: Wisdom, Formation and Happiness
A recent Wall Street Journal article, The Tech Whiz Behind Vine and HQ Trivia, tells the story of Colin Kroll. Professional Success Colin was a young, self-taught computer programmer who left Detroit In 2007 to go to New York City and do app coding. He worked 12-hour days at the office and did…
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Secret to Happiness #2: Your Relationship with Yourself
Marine Corps Officer Candidate School Way back in the summer of 1985, I spent my June and July in a special kind of hell called Marine Corps Officer Candidates School—Marine OCS. Most people, when they hear the word “school”, think that Marine Officer Candidate School would be a place where you...
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The Secret to Happiness #1: High Quality Relationships
Tragedy, Unhappiness and Burnout This week I read an article about a 27-year old young woman who hanged herself in her New York apartment. She left her mother apology notes online and in her apartment that read she “felt absolutely nothing during what should have been the happiest and darkest…
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Why Presuming Good Faith is Critical to Your Happiness and Success
Attacking the Bad and Stupid People So, America, are we pissed off at each other enough yet? It is seductive and easy to get pissed off at bad people. Stupid people. You know the ones. The idiots out there on the other side. The fake news ones. They are ignorant. Selfish. Hateful. They deserve...
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Millennials: Pursuing Happiness and Avoiding Burnout
Last week a writer from the millennial generation, Anne Helen Petersen, published an essay, “How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation”. My millennial daughter recommended it to me. She said Petersen’s article captured the way she and many in her age group feel about life. Petersen’s article…
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Want a Better America? We Must Become Better Leaders Ourselves
Peggy Noonan and Magic Ponies... A few weeks ago, I made a quick post about a column by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal about Americans—that’s you and me—and politics and “magic ponies.” With a new Congress coming in and the 2020 election already starting, it made sense to go into greater...
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Christmas Love Can Heal Our Divided Nation
Merry Christmas! Just a week ago, we passed the Winter Solstice. Darkness dominates our days and sometimes our moods. Just days after the light begins its return, we celebrate Christmas—the birth of Jesus, Divine Love, into our world. Our Divided Nation Light and Love could not come at a better...
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Three Reasons “Why” Is Important For Your Success
It is so easy to get caught up in the busy-ness of life and find the weeks, months and even years flying buy. We are chasing so many immediate things in life—getting the best job, getting our kids into the right schools and on the right sports teams, living in the right neighborhoods and driving...
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Episode #0106 George Bush Life, Legacy, Lessons, Love, America
Over the last week, our nation has taken time to honor the life of George H.W. Bush, our 41st president. Thousands viewed him in the Capitol in Washington DC and in Houston. We televised two of this three funeral services. Thousands more stood along the tracks while his presidential train took…
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Thanksgiving: Be The Blessing to Others
It’s time again for Thanksgiving! A History of Giving Thanks For most of our history, Americans have generally thought that life was hard deal. Life was tough. Difficult. Not supposed to be fair. If you worked hard and had some good luck, you might scratch out a decent life for yourself and your...
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Parent, Business Leader & Citizen: What We Can Learn from the Marine Corps
The Marine Corps Birthday Last night, I took a friend of mine, Tony, out for an important evening. He’s 96 years old, a retired school superintendent, teacher and deacon. I think he is the father of seven. We went to an event that had about 200 people of all ethnic groups, ages 20 to 96. It...
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Episode #0103 Do You Believe in Love
Love and Happiness Today, we’re going to begin an ongoing conversation about the importance and power of love. Love is obviously a subject very present in our lives. When we are in love we’re happy. When we’re out of love we’re heartbroken and unhappy. We love our parents and our kids. Love is…
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Episode # 0102 The Meaning of Life--Happiness
In this blog, we’ll talk about the Meaning of Life, Happiness, what that means and what you can start doing right now to achieve it. You can find a podcast version of this blog article on our website or iTunes. If you want to dive in to the issue of leadership, you can get my book, “On…
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Episode #0101 Best Definition of Leadership
In this blog, we are starting an ongoing discussion about leadership. First, we’ll talk about how fundamental leadership is in our lives. Then we’ll talk about definitions of leadership resulting in what I believe is the best definition of leadership. Finally, I am going to ask you to share your...
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