BE STRONGER AGAINST THE SHARKS THAN I WAS!
LESSON: When you are in the throes of extreme adversity, you are an easy target for manipulation. Your hope and desperation blind you to...
LESSON: When you are in the throes of extreme adversity, you are an easy target for manipulation. Your hope and desperation blind you to...
LESSON: Even before the black swan knocks on our doors, we must, sadly, document everything possible to include paperwork, audio...
LESSON: Extreme adversity brings what seems like a never-ending flow of crisis after crisis, each with seemingly more intense...
LESSON: Through extreme adversity become a master of whatever business you must handle. Never, ever, ever rely on attorneys, accountants,...
LESSON: One advantage of going through severe adversity for CEOs and other leaders is the purging of the sycophants who have told them...
LESSON: When battling entrenched adversaries, we must find a delicate balance between cynicism to protect ourselves and humility and...
LESSON: Even though I’ve described how we are all alone with the responsibility to save ourselves when extreme adversity strikes, there...
LESSON: Outside of our business mission, our company’s focus on driving character, class, etiquette, proper human behavior, and superior...
LESSON: If we have the foresight to arrange our lives today in preparation for not only continued success but also in anticipation for...
The following is an excerpt from my recently released Amazon #1 Best Seller, When Not If: A CEO's Guide to Overcoming Adversity, Forbes...
LESSON: As leaders confronted with extreme adversity, we must throw aside all excuses of “this is not fair” or “they owe me because I...
The following is a 100% true story published as an interlude amongst 40 lessons for CEOs in my recently released Amazon #1 Best Seller,...
LESSON: Policies, protocols, and people need to be set with a view to what is the worst that could happen. Hope is not a strategy. Blind...
LESSON: Integrity demands responsibility. When faced with adversity, great leaders must take the responsibility to make good on the...
LESSON: Regardless of your life-long good deeds and success, the system must turn you into a villain in the press and the courtroom to...
LESSON: When slammed by extreme adversity, we enter a world where up may be down, and wrong may be right, but all we can do is give...
LESSON: I reminded myself daily to help as many people as possible, in the knowledge that this approach was my only chance to help...
The below crazy story is one of 4 interludes placed among the 40 lessons in my upcoming book, When Not If: A CEO's Guide to Overcoming...
LESSON: As a successful CEO, I lived in a fantasy world, and my naiveté and passive reliance nearly sealed my fate. I should have known...
LESSON: Although family, friends, and institutional placeholders may attempt to support leaders when in the crosshairs of the government,...