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Just a Job or a Source of Deeper Joy and Meaning?

We need to either find the work we love, or learn to love the work we have. Get passionate or get out.

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Interested in Leadership, or Committed to Becoming a Leader?

Many managers in leadership roles have stunted personal growth. We can focus on the gain of improvement, by keeping our preferred future and purpose firmly in front of us, and develop the "habit" of personal improvement.

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How Visioning Helped My Passion and Persistence

Create strong passion with a clear and compelling vision and hang in there during the inevitable downs and defeats until dreams are realized.

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How Visioning Changed My Life

Visioning is where my personal effectiveness quest began, in 1974. Even now, as I recall that turning point in my life, a shiver runs up my spine.

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Discipline Can Be Habit Forming

Our discipline and habits spring from our passion and commitment. To motivate myself, I need to find ways to increase my passion and get my heart into it.

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Deepening Our Discipline

Discipline means having the vision to see the long term picture and keep things in balance. Regret can cost hundreds of hours, discipline costs minutes. An ounce of bite-my-tongue can outweigh a ton of I-am-so-sorries.

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Building Passion and Commitment the Wal-Mart Way

Committing to your business is essential for its success. According to Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, "If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you – like a fever."

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Blazing Our Own Unique Leadership Path

Leaders are made not born. Developing our "gift" starts with a clear and constant focus on where we're going, what we believe in, and why we exist — but it also demands persistence

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Beyond “Near-Life Experiences”

Leadership charisma and energy flow directly from our personal passion and commitment. We can't impassion others about life or their work if we don't feel passionate about ours.

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Being True to Me

Each of us learns from what surrounds us. But then we have to ask ourselves whether these things really reflect our own personal values.

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Apathy and Cynicism Zap Our Spirit

As the years slide by, a growing number of people don't really live, they merely exist – trapped in their lives of quiet desperation. Just getting by is as dangerous as resting in the snow on a frigid winter night; our passion and spirit dozes off and dies in our sleep.

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A Burning Commitment to Our Cause

A clear hallmark of passionate and highly effective leaders is a burning commitment to the cause. There's no doubt about where the leader stands and where he or she is going.

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Leading in Turbulent Times Audio CD

Leading in Turbulent Times Audio CD

Strategic change is an inevitable fact of business life. How we choose to respond to it — as leaders or as followers — determines our personal and professional success. This Audio CD captures the essential elements of developing the leader within all of us. Developing these leadership competencies will help you and your organization continue to drive toward success and ‘grow at the speed of change’.

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Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide

Growing the Distance: Personal Implementation Guide

The Personal Implementation Guide builds upon Growing the Distance and moves from inspiration to application. In this very practical handbook, Jim condenses and shares over twenty-five years of experience helping thousands of people apply the timeless leadership principles and practices.

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Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success

There are countless personal and leadership development books full of jargon, fads, and buzzwords flooding the market. A bestseller, this is a book of “profound simplicity” that cuts to the essence, while being easy and fun to read. Although highly applicable to readers of Jim’s previous bestselling books with roles and titles like manager, supervisor, or executive, Growing the Distance is written for a much broader audience.

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Put Valentine’s Day Passion in Your Leadership

Hey guys! Sunday is Valentine’s Day. Have you bought your card for your sweetheart yet? The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide. That makes this day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year next to Christmas. The association has found in the U.S. men spend […]

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CEO Blog on Time Leadership

In today’s hyper-connected world there are many conflicting demands on our time. Technology makes it way too easy to get pulled into frittering (or Twittering) away bits of time here and there until suddenly the day or the week is gone and we’re left stressed out and wondering what we really accomplished. And multi-tasking actually […]

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Harness the Power of Vision – and then Get to Work

Hello, Jim. I just read the book from Anthony Robbins “Awaken the Giant Within.” I want to be CEO of computer department some day. I have eleven years experience. I believe I will be a good boss. I learn something new every day. Every day I read books on how to become great person. I’m […]

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