In today’s Powerquotes Plus our members received this quotation from the author Vash Young: “Any experience can be transformed into something of value.” Most of us would agree with this thought, and yet, when the experience has been challenging, hard, difficult or painful, it is harder to believe or remember. That is where we as

Read More

I read Sports Illustrated every week and almost always find examples of good leadership skills that can be applied in the real world – but it’s not often that one jumps off the page and screams at me (more on that in a second). Here’s a little background: In SI’s April 6, 2009, edition Damon

Read More

Our world moves quickly, and innovation and innovative leadership is all around us, if we just take time to notice. I noticed something today – early enough that we can all watch. Unless you are living under a rock, you’ve heard of Twitter.  (if you are on Twitter and not following me please do and

Read More

Members of our Remarkable Leadership Learning System (get a sample or a free trial in the right column) are learning about creating Customer Partnerships this month, and as a part of that process had the chance to listen to and interact with Steve Yastrow, author of We: The Ideal Customer Relationship in our Guest Conversation

Read More

Around the world today there will be plenty of people sitting in some sort of supervisor training workshop. And while those sessions will be well designed and led by skilled and well meaning trainers and facilitators, the vast majority of these sessions will leave out skills that will be critical to both the supervisor’s and

Read More

Want to improve your leadership skills?  Want to increase the effectiveness of any leadership development training? Then you must start at the source. Belief. We must believe are are and can be Remarkable leaders. We must believe others can be Remarkable leaders. Hopefully this video reminds you that good leadership skills start with your belief.

Read More

During a great sales and marketing conference last weekend – hosted by the wicked smart and always entertaining Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer – I attended a session given by a woman named Ali Brown. Ali is someone I admire and learn from regularly, but on Friday afternoon she said something that has stuck with

Read More

Each month members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System (you can get your sample on the right, or learn more here) focus on one skill.  This month’s skill is Developing Customer Partnerships. And members at the Silver level and above get the opportunity to participate in a guest call each month.  These calls are with

Read More

Last week I had the chance to hear Ivanka Trump speak, and meet her after wards. (As you can see she is happy to now have her copy of Remarkable Leadership). As Wharton-educated daughter of Donald Trump, Vice President of Trump International, regular on his television show, Celebrity Apprentice, and owner of her own jewelry

Read More

This may seem like a strange subject for a post from a guy who writes, speaks and talks about leadership development.  But there are definitely problems with the approach that many take to leadership development programs and training of all types. Wayne Turmel, famous as the Cranky Middle Manager, got me talking about some of my

Read More