John Davis: “As a fight director and stunt man, I have several rules that keep my team safe. One is that we don’t invest in fault or guilt. Instead we focus on the information that is presented and take action with the new information in mind. When I have used this tool in a business [...]

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I met a professor named Scott Walters last year who told me about a young man in a very bad way that was able, through Professor Walter’s help, to see with clearer eyes his own journey thus far, and craft a new and different ending for it.  What I love about this story is that [...]

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At the end of today’s Sales Moves newspaper column by Jeffrey Gitomer, the author of The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, and many other notable books, he recommends that you “review your accomplishments at the end of each day—to praise and challenge yourself.  Write them down.” In my parlance, that’s an Inverse [...]

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As you may know, I am a huge fan of sleep and its restorative and creativity-enhancing powers. It’s one of my primary medicines, as you’ll see by this infographic. Because when we sleep, our brain recharges and re-organizes information, and our bodies release stress hormones that may block us from seeing our availability possibilities. Take [...]

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Here’s Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action. Do you know your “why?”  What is it?  Please share!

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This post was originally published on October 5th, 2010 with the title, Do You Have Wealth and Abundance in Your Genes? In his book A Farewell to Alms, professor Gregory Clark of the University of California at Davis suggested that the values that lead to economic prosperity may be encoded in your genes.  In his study [...]

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 I have several ways to communicate my value proposition, depending upon the audience, the setting and how I’m feeling on any given day. Sometimes I just say, pithily: “I’m the woman you call when your progress is stalled.” Other times I say, “I help people discover new possibilities for achieving their desired results, and then [...]

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This is a horribly backlit photo, but it is President Obama addressing the AP Annual Luncheon in DC, and I am in the front row.  If you Google “Obama April 3, 2012,” you’ll find video of his presentation that day and coverage of it, with plenty of juicy adjectives and verbs, such as “bitter,” “slammed,” [...]

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In 2011, Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami which killed tens of thousands and cause a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  The British newspaper The Guardian reported the following: “The report criticised the use of the term soteigai, meaning unforeseeable, which it said implied authorities were shirking responsibility for what had happened. It said by labeling [...]

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