How To Recognize Inspirational Leadership

Hint: It Brings Out Your Very Best by Michael D. Hume, M.S. Frances Fox Piven, an elderly former professor and far-left activist, stood before a small group of the protestors currently involved in the “Occupy Wall Street” event. Piven, who in younger days...

Steve Jobs, and the classic story

In his seminal 1949 work The Hero With a Thosand Faces, Joseph Campbell observed that all myths, across time and cultures, contain the same theme.  It is the the same basic recipe, based on “the hero’s journey”, and the structure repeats itself, in...

Achievement Comes Down to CHOICE

In my over 30 years of study in achievement and working with top corporate leaders and entrepreneurs at every level, I have come to learn that all leaders have one thing in common: they are looking for that “Next-Level” for their organizations and for...

You Have to Get the Cows Out of the Creek First

“There is only one way to solve a problem – the right way” – Chris Ruisi, The Coach and Business Motivational Speaker of Choice   “Get the cows out of the creek” is an expression I first learned about when I read an article about Meg Whitman,...

The Most Important Thing Your Business Needs Today

Most of the stories my grandparents told were about how hard just making a living was during their growing up years in the Great Depression. Their stories always left me with a certain sense of financial uncertainty, of “Whew! Glad I didn’t grow up back...