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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. How do you get there?

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). Here are common obstacles to our ability to have a +influence, along with how to minimize their interference: 1. Yet others are able to push through interference from pressure or pain to realize their potential for top performance. Low awareness.

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15 Attributes of Positively Energizing Leaders

Leading Blog

W HEN YOU HEAR the term positive leadership , it is easy to get cynical and think it is all happy-talk and disconnected from reality. It is a “concept adapted from a phenomenon typically ascribed to how plants respond to the sun’s rays.” It is real, and we naturally respond positively to them—the heliotropic effect.

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Possible: How to Transform Any Conflict

Leading Blog

William Ury says, “We actually need more conflict, not less—if we are to learn, grow, evolve. In Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict , Ury explains how to embrace conflict and transform it constructively to bring out the best in us—not the worst. Humility helps us to learn and be creative.

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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Chaos happens, but we need to become a creator of positive chaos. That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. Capacity — How much can you give?

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Positively Energizing Leaders Are Heliotropic

Lead Change Blog

The heliotropic effect describes the inherent tendency in all living things toward positive energy and away from negative energy. In nature, the sun is the source of positive, life-giving energy, so the heliotropic effect explains why plants and other organisms lean toward the light over time. It is renewing.

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How To Get Noticed (and Promoted) at Work.

Rich Gee Group

Standing out and moving up the ladder requires more than just showing up and doing your job. It's about making an indelible mark, demonstrating your unique value, and strategically positioning yourself for promotions. Master Your Current Role Excellence in your current position is the foundation of getting noticed.

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