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Wayne’s World Moments and What You Can Do About Them
No- this isn’t a fan page piece or a top 10 list of funny lines from Wayne’s World… Have you ever had one of these moments? You’re about to start a new task or job…or you’re about to step in front of...
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THE SENSEI LEADER: The Reluctant Leader
Do you remember an old children’s story called The Reluctant Dragon? Disney later turned it into a cartoon. In it you have a dragon that really doesn’t want to be a dragon- at least in the classic mold...
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SPECIAL POST: The Sensei Leader
In advance of his new book, The Sensei Leader, Jim has launched a new blog by the same title! The Sensei Leader features advice, articles and interviews highlighting the human elements of effective...
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The Confidence Imperative
Confidence is one of the most important qualities you must develop if you want to accomplish anything meaningful. For leaders, confidence is an essential ingredient if you want others to follow you...
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5 Things You Have to Do EVERY Damn Day…if you want to get ahead in life
Discipline is about developing meaningful and purposeful habits. If you want to accomplish something meaningful, you need to create meaningful disciplines… I’ll admit that a couple of these things show...
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Focus and Sales: I’m not your target market!
I don’t do technical sales training, but I work with a lot of sales people in the area of focus. That’s what this article is all about. Focus is about turning off the noise… That is, eliminating the...
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Don’t Be the Manager Your People Warned You About
In the spirit of Throwback Thursday… I wasn’t always a Black Belt, entrepreneur, author and speaker. In fact, I started my young adult life as a two-time college dropout and drug addict. I lived in an...
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Letting Go to Move Ahead
Today’s post is inspired by an old friend… One of the first people I encountered when I started speaking and writing was Joan Sotkin, the founder of ProsperityPlace.com and author of Build Your Money...
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Ebola and The Truth – A serious disconnect
This is not a post on how to stop the spread of Ebola. I’ll leave that to the medical experts. There are some very important leadership lessons to be learned from the way we are dealing with the fears...
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Why you should do your best anyway
I’ve said it myself… “Why should I even try? I’m doing the best I can and nothing is happening anyway.” Have you found yourself in any of these situations? You prepped for a very promising job...
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Why you should still teach your kids to do their best…anyway
Your son comes to you and says, “Someday, I’m going to play in the NFL.” What do you tell him? According to the NCAA, about 1 out of every 17 high school players will go on to play in college. From...
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Thinking in 3 dimensions
Most of the time, most of us think in 1 dimension… That is, your first response to any given topic is usually based on the frame of reference you’ve developed from past experience, prior beliefs and...
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Artistic courage and business
Writing for Forbes.com, Bruce Rogers highlights an address by Kevin Spacey at the SapientNitro Idea Exchange in New York City… What perspective can an an actor, someone whose business is make-believe,...
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Embracing the process of perfection
From THINK Like a BLACK BELT… To a martial artist, a “kata” is never finished. A kata is a set of movements used to teach, learn, and practice martial arts movements. A kata is never perfect… If you’re...
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The Authenticity Trap
“Every decision we make in our lives, as individuals or as organizations, is a piece of communication. It’s our way of saying something about who we are, and what we believe. “This is why authenticity...
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BOOK PREVIEW: The Sensei Leader
A preview of Jim’s next book- The Sensei Leader… “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams Who is The Sensei Leader? The...
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The 2 most powerful questions you can ask yourself this year
It’s time for some year-end reflection… I do this exercise around Thanksgiving. That gives me plenty of time to figure out how the answers to these two questions will factor into my plans for the New...
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We don’t have enough people willing to become leaders
Another preview from The Sensei Leader… We don’t have enough people willing to become leaders. I don’t blame them! We treat celebrities like leaders, like some kind of high school popularity contest...
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The Sensei Leader
In advance of my next book, The Sensei Leader, I’ve launched a blog by the same title. Within the next few days, we’ll also be launching The Sensei Leader Club- a special membership community dedicated...
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Annual Kindle eBook Gift List! Last minute shopping? No worries!
If you need a last minute gift, don’t just run to the local 24 hour pharmacy and waste your money on some cheap tchotchke that will either end up in the trash or re-gifted! Give something that will...
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