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Cognitive Reappraisal for Wild Success

Leading Blog

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. I want to focus on a critical, but often difficult skill that we all need to develop: cognitive reappraisal. It looks like his career is over. They doubt they can save his leg.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

I’m not trying to downplay the incredible success these people have achieved, but I believe everyone is capable of being a visionary — you just need to develop the skills to identify the vision and then bring it to reality. Unleash your creativity: Have you ever been asked to “think outside the box”?

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The Super Clever Strategy for Winning Wild Success

Lead from Within

2. Keep creativity flowing. Imagination is the beginning of creation, so find ways to spark your creativity and new ideas. Stay in imaginative shape by exercising your creativity and letting yourself go off the map. When creativity and determination work together, you can expect a masterpiece.

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October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the October 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Inspiration/Creativity. Development. Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided The Importance of GRIT – My Recent Adventure in the Wild. Inspiration/Creativity. Follow these 4 steps to break career stagnation.”

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Embrace Wild Thinking to Grow Your Business

Skip Prichard

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. 25 Provocative Questions to 25 Creative Leaders. What is wild thinking? A Successful Career is a Marathon. It’s your job to inspire your customers – not merely to meet their needs.”

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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Leading Blog

Just as both “Jobs and Gates reaped enormous benefit from studying the works of their contemporaries, extracting crucial insights, and applying those lessons to develop new products, says Ron Friedman in Decoding Greatness , you can too. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. 3 Think in Blueprints.

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October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the October 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Inspiration/Creativity. Development. Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided The Importance of GRIT – My Recent Adventure in the Wild. Inspiration/Creativity. Follow these 4 steps to break career stagnation.”