After Success, Four Ways To Keep The Momentum Going
You did it. You and your team set out to create change—whether it be implementing a new process, launching a new product, or transforming your organization’s culture—and you did it. Congratulations! But now what? Now you must find new ways to build on what has been achieved and extend the impact of what has been...
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Facing Up To Your Darkest Leadership Moment (And Coming Out On Top)
As a leader, you will likely face many dark moments. One will stand as the darkest, and it will take your supreme resolve to shift away from the fear of failure toward a place of knowing that change can successfully be achieved. The Supreme Ordeal is the fifth phase of the Heroic Journey of the Leader.* This is the time...
ReadLead Positive Named One of 2014's "Best Leadership Books" by Inc.com
In case you missed it, I wanted to share this exciting news with you: Lead Positive was named one of the “Best Leadership Books” of 2014 by Inc.com! In an article titled, “10 Tips and Quotes From the Best Leadership Books of the Year,” by Inc.com Contributing Editor John Brandon, appears this salient tip from...
ReadTop 5 Ways to Lead Positive with Others
I have been spending a lot of time lately with an impressive team of strategic thinkers working on how to make the most of 2015 (more on this soon!). The sheer number of great ideas and collaborations we have come up with got me thinking about how important it is to Lead Positive in our...
ReadTop 5 Ways to Shift Your Mindset to the Positive
As we begin to close out the year, I’m taking the time to scan, snap, savor all that my team and I have been able to accomplish over the past year: publishing Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do, launching my new website and blog, and most recently, working with an amazing...
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The Leader as Hero: 5 Essential Daily Acts
I often talk to leaders about putting themselves in the role of “Hero” as they tell their stories. Using the Hero’s Journey as a framework for explaining your vision and how you and your team will get there is a powerful tool to get people on board and start feeling the excitement of taking on...
ReadLeaders Soar with Lead Positive: Register for a leadership workshop today!
I am so excited to tell you about the new workshops that we have developed at The Cramer Institute based on the terrific response I have received about my latest book, Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leader See, Say, and Do. In fact, the response has been so great, we just added new dates for...
ReadRough Weather Makes Good Timber or How Asset-Based Thinking Came To Be
If my brother Jim had not died when he was 22 of a usually easy-to-survive illness called mononucleosis, I am sure I never would have written 9 books. I know I would not have founded The Stress Center at Saint Louis University. I certainly would not have dedicated my career to discovering what it takes...
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