Leader, How Do You Recharge?

This is my "back to work, I’m not ready for anything too serious, but I have a message for you," post.

I just returned from a trip to a warm locale (at least it was warmer than Chicago!), and had a great opportunity to mix a few great days of business with a long weekend with family and friends.  A long weekend can barely be called a vacation, as my European friends are apt to remind me.  Nonetheless, it was a great few days to shift mental gears, play with my new nephew, sample some great local restaurants and even spend some time with a quality Ken Follett spy mystery.  The six inches of new snow and malfunctioning snow blower were a cold slap of reality this morning, but I suspect that I still benefited from the mental downtime of this trip. 

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