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Tag: Discipline
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On the Radar and Off the Radar: Navigating Career Growth
By Rod Patterson, MBA Every employee who wants to grow eventually discovers a strange tension: being on the radar can accelerate your career, and being off the radar can protect it. Both realities coexist, and both carry consequences. The Power and Price of Being on the Radar When you’re on the radar, leaders see your…
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KEEP HOPE ALIVE
By Rod Patterson, MBA In 1988, I was twenty-two, adrift and feeling defeated.I had just been academically dismissed from the Borough of Manhattan Community College. My dreams felt shattered before they had truly begun. I walked the streets of New York carrying the heavy silence of failure, unsure if I would ever find solid ground…
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LIBERATION (Season 4 Episode One)
LIBERATION By Rod Patterson, MBA Guard Your Gates Blog — Season 4, Episode 1 (2026) “Freedom Hits Different When You’ve Been Bound” Before we talk about goals, growth, or greatness in 2026, we need to confront something deeper: Are you actually free? Not legally. Not socially. Not professionally. I mean internally — spiritually, mentally, emotionally.…
