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An excerpt from Pulling Together….The 10 Rules for High Performance Teams  by John Murphy At the center of every high performance team is a common purpose – a mission that rises above and beyond each of the individual team members. To be successful, the team’s interests and needs come first. This requires “we-opic” vision (“What’s…

An excerpt from The Butterfly Effect by Andy Andrews Not long ago, I finally told the story of when, at the age of twenty-three, homeless and scared, I was given guidance in a most unusual fashion by an old man named Jones. What the old man told me did nothing less than change my life and…

An excerpt from The Nature of Success by Mac Anderson I met Charlie Cullen through his nephew during my sophomore year in college. Charlie had been ranked by his peers as the top speaker in the country, and he had addressed the leaders of many Fortune 500 companies. But on this day, as a favor…

An excerpt from The Road to Happiness by Mac Anderson and BJ Gallagher When I travel on business, I like to talk to the taxi drivers who take me from the airport to my hotel, or to a convention center, or to a restaurant. Taxi drivers are often immigrants with interesting personal histories and unusual…

An excerpt from What it Takes to Be Number One by Vince Lombardi, Jr. Running a football team is no different than running a business. Results are the bottom line. What running any organization comes down to is the consequences that are brought about by your leadership. The absence of positive results render your leadership…

An excerpt from Inspiration 365 Days a Year by Zig Ziglar Reading has been the fuel of my motivation, it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued. I’m now in my eighth decade of living and I still…

An excerpt from 212° Leadership by Mac Anderson In his landmark study of companies that made the leap from Good to Great, author Jim Collins found that great companies focused first on their people: “We found that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right…

An excerpt from Sales Motivation by Todd Duncan Show me a successful person and I will show you someone who chooses the course of success over and over in their life. I will show you a person who is full of passion, excitement, courage, conviction, focus, positivity and enthusiasm. Successful people who exude these attributes…

Excerpt from Great Quotes From Great Leaders by Peggy Anderson 1. “The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 2. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford (1863-1947) 3. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” Mother…

An excerpt from Learning to Dance in the Rain by Mac Anderson and BJ Gallagher “Buddha said that fortune changes like the swish of a horse’s tail. Tomorrow could be the first day of thirty years of quadriplegia…the more you open to life, the less death becomes the enemy. When you start using death as…
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