5 Outrageous Acts of Leadership

Extraordinary leaders go beyond conventional expectations, taking bold actions that often challenge the status quo. Here are five of the most outrageous yet powerful acts. Caution: they aren’t for everyone.

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6 Ways to Think Better

Leaders are good thinkers; great leaders are great thinkers. Here are six simple yet powerful suggestions to help you think more effectively and reap the rewards that better thinking brings.

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Your Fall Life Tune Up

Fall is here and this is (as all times are) a good opportunity to tune up your business and your life. Here’s a list of ideas you can use improve every area of your personal and professional life.

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Normal is Overrated

Peggy Noonan commented that people running for President often try to come across as normal. She points out that wanting to be the leader of the free world isn’t really normal, and it isn’t the aspiration nor ability of most people. But she sees that grand pursuit as noble and good.

“Besides,” she says, “normal is overrated.”

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13 Things Freds Do

My book, The Fred Factor, talks about how to turn ordinary into extraordinary by using the real life example of Fred Shea, my postal carrier when I first moved to Denver. Here is a summary of what “Freds” do in their work and in their lives. I hope it stimulates your thinking about what you can do to turn ordinary into extraordinary.

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