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[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

50+ years in baseball. 17 as an MLB manager. over 2,500 games from the dugout.

I won Manager of the Year and also lost more games than I want to count.

I led teams through losing seasons and took a team to the World Series.

The biggest difference was leadership.

If I could go back to my first day as a leader, here are the 5 lessons I'd whisper in my own ear:

Lesson 1: Be a window when it's good, a mirror when it's bad.

The leaders I respected most shared every win and absorbed every hit.

What this looks like in practice:

• Wins: name the people who made it happen
• Losses: say "that's on me" before anyone asks
• Locker room: spotlight the effort before the outcome

Your team will fight harder for a leader who deflects credit and absorbs blame.

Lesson 2: Nobody hands you trust. You earn it before you coach it.

Early in my career, plenty of coaches tried to fix my swing.

I tuned out every one I didn't trust.

Get to know your people before you try to develop them.

Their hobbies, their family, what makes them tick.

Then the coaching lands.

Lesson 3: Shower well after every loss.

After a losing streak in Colorado, our team president asked me how I kept the clubhouse together.

This was my rule:

• Self-evaluate honestly, were we prepared, did we execute?
• Shower well, wash off the grit, grime, and angst before you walk out
• Be present for whoever you're going home to

Tomorrow is a new opportunity. Don't drag yesterday into it.

Lesson 4: Lead transformationally, not transactionally.

Transactional leaders ask: what can this person do for me?

Transformational leaders ask: how do I put this person in a position to win?

The first builds compliance.

The second builds careers.

When your people start chasing growth instead of your approval, you've crossed over.

Lesson 5: Stay humble before life humbles you.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are humble, and those who are about to be.

Discipline keeps you in the first group:

Skill gets you in the room. Humility keeps you there.

50 years taught me leadership isn't about you.

It's about the people you serve.

@Rockies

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@walterkirn In

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@SamplesMIA @SMB_Attorney Most likely, yes. And state Bars will probably grant bar licenses to AI agents in the future

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@SamplesMIA @JM_speakss @Beefshala Whimsical

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@SamplesMIA @KarluskaP Perfectly reasonable. She forgot step 4, pitch forks and tar and feathering.

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@SamplesMIA @TheBTCTherapist @Beefshala Says the mad scientist!

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@JayGaddis I find this to be true more and more

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@mtaibbi Very sad to hear this news

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@walterkirn At a loss for words.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Again:

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Why the Somali fraud wasn't called out by more Minnesotans is clear.

They're black immigrants, and critics don't want to be called racist.

As a son of African immigrants, I'll say: Some cultures are incompatible.

Immigrants who won't choose American culture shouldn't be here.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

What @nickshirleyy has done here is incredible. He has simultaneously exposed a gigantic government fraud and the uselessness of corporate media.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A year ago I would have thought this to be an overstatement. With the benefit of recent information, I have come to believe that @StephenM speaks the hard truth.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

In the interest of every single person seeing this. Here is a bit of what they've done to Minnesota and what they're still doing to all of us.

Who's "they?"

Well it starts with a D.

The people who to ran Walz for VP of the US.

Of all people, right?

No accident.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

County Highway kicked the rocks in Minnesota back on 1 December and now the landslide is upon us.

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[Professor Charles Xavier @PezeshkiCharles]

County Highways was the first publication that reported on the Somali fraud issue.

One of the interesting things is that this is a meta-problem with the mainstream media. It's not what's being reported. It's what's NOT being reported. And then the inevitable question arises -- what did they know that they did not report?

We need outlets like these guys.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

County Highway with even fewer resources beat Rufo by a solid week and I have receipts. Our story was promoted all over Twitter. Not a secret.

The fact that this hasn't been acknowledged is saddening given all this crowing abt beating the Times

Here is our story from Nov 12.

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@walterkirn This just in!

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@walterkirn Ligurias Bakery!