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Reversing Social Malaise
According to Gallup:
In 2024, adults worldwide reported high levels of daily distress: 39% felt a lot of worry, 37% felt stress, 32% experienced physical pain, 26% felt sadness and 22% felt anger. All are higher than they were a decade ago.
What is the antidote to this pain?
I could see this coming a few years ago – a society sliding into despair and a deep distrust of institutions – and this especially noticeable among young people, but also everyone else too. So I wondered if my successful work helping leaders of some of the best managed companies in the world could be adapted to focus on the individual and their sense of disappointment and hopelessness. So, I took everything I had learned working with inspiring leaders and mashed it up into a new book titled, “Reawakening the Human Spirit: Finding the Spark, the Flame, and the Torch Within“.
Bingo! it worked.
So I invite you to give yourself a gift – reawaken your human spirit. We can still become inspired, even in a world that does not always feel inspiring. Not only will you reframe your own life, but you will be an inspiration for others.
It is available as a traditional; book, and also Audible and Kindle. Check it out here: https://secretan.com/books-dvds/reawakening-human-spirit/
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The end of Mission, Vision and Values Statements
Check out this video clip on YouTube about how Destiny, Character and Calling have replaced the old fashioned and cliché Mission, Vision and Values Statements. The world is bored with them. The new idea is the creation of a Destiny Statement, and a Cause and to...
Inspiring Leadership
I have spent three decades coaching and advising leaders and much of that time I have been astounded by the number of leaders who use leadership behaviors that demoralize, are abusive or dishonoring, and counterproductive. It astounds me, even after all these years,...
Are You Following Your Calling?
Last fall, I was working with a local community, who had asked me to help them become a leading center for entrepreneurs and technology experts worldwide. Their goal is to become a magnet for entrepreneurs and technology specialists currently living elsewhere and to...
Teaching Values Early
The Gavin School of International Management at Thunderbird University in Arizona has established a first - a requirement that its students sign an oath that requires students to practice ethical behavior after graduation. "Our belief is management is a real...
Now the Work of Christmas Begins
Traditionally, Christmas festivities continued from Christmas Day until the "Twelfth Night", the evening of January 5th. Practically, these days it seems that the corporate world follows this pattern - most of the clients with whom I work operated in a "festive"...
An Old (New) Way to Create Stronger Relationships
Have you ever found yourself sending an e-mail to your spouse who was in the same house? Do you e-mail colleagues who are down the hall at work? Have you ever sent an e-mail that seemed straightforward and clear to you, but required several further exchanges before...
The Times They are A-Changin’
I am skiing in Colorado. My friend Ari Goosen, an exceptional businessman who manages the Surefoot Store at Copper Mountain introduced me to this clever gadget which connects my mobile phone and MP3 player simultaneously to my helmet, so I can alternatively answer my...
We Teach the Student What We Need Most to Learn
My friend Shonnie Lavender came to ski with me recently at my home in Colorado. (Read her blog). As she is also a business associate, we talked business. And we also talked skiing. We had a marvellous day and we discussed our shared business issues, and I also taught...
The Next Big Thing in Leadership
For years, "the customer comes first" has been the mantra for business. Sometimes the shareholder has been held in equal esteem. But vendors and employees have rarely been viewed with the same reverence as these two. But a new awareness is dawning. As staff shortages,...
How to Achieve Transformational Change
In my book "ONE", I have described many scenarios - some of them life-threatening - which show how we are hard-wired to resist change. Typically, only about 10% of us will change our behavior permanently from a long-standing habit or practice. The solutions may seem...
How the CASTLE® Principles Inspire Trust
After Randy White attended one of my leadership workshops, he conducted an experiment at Raytheon, where he works. First, he asked his team to anonymously rate each other on the following "Trust" scale: 0: I trust no one here and do not feel safe to share 1-2: I trust...
What we Teach Leaders
In this month's issue of Wired Magazine, Brian Lam has written a step-by-step series of instructions, complete with illustrations about "How to Capture the Armrest", on an airplane so that you can "claim the elbow room and comfort you deserve" and "dominate the...
