Be a master to your students

It's true that a team is only as strong as its weakest player, so how does a good leader build strength from weakness?

A good friend is a corporate vice president today. But the way he tells the story, it would never would have happened without his chessmaster.

Chess is a game that teaches strategy, but playing will also give you insights about people. Like a lot of young players, my friend played an aggressive style. Attack, attack, attack. The kind of game that looks great when it wins, but will lose six out of ten games.

Principles, MindsetBrett PinegarJanuary 31, 2018

Great leaders use four disciplines to enable 2x results

Great leaders achieve two times the profits and more than two times the ROI of average leaders. Watch this one hour webinar recorded on January 30, 3018 to learn the four disciplines great leaders rely on for exceptional results.

Mindset, Leadership, Principles, Purpose, Results, ActionBrett PinegarJanuary 30, 2018

5 Proven Ways to Better Manage Stress

Stress is a fact of life and a necessary part of life too. Without the stress on the body from a vigorous workout, one loses muscles and gains weight. Without the stress of studying to learn a new subject, it is impossible to improve one’s knowledge. In any area of life that shows improvement or growth, you will find a stress factor involved with that change. The challenge then becomes to not eliminate stress but rather to utilize stress in a fashion that will produce the best results with the least amount of negative impact.

Action, Principles, MiscellaneousBrett PinegarJanuary 4, 2018Exercise, Running, Stress

Execution As Innovation - Tim Sanders

As a leader are you monitoring and ensuring the process that brings new ideas to the final stage of launching? Or is your company swimming in plenty of concepts and ideas but failing to produce?

Action, PrinciplesBrett PinegarJune 18, 2013Innovation, executive, leader

Improve Your Results – Overcome Resistance

Life happens. You’re running early for a meeting and decide to stop for a quick errand. You step out of the car, preoccupied with thoughts of your meeting, and shut the door – realizing seconds too late that your keys and phone are now locked inside. The quick errand has now turned into a quick panic as you realize that you are miles from home, you have no access to a phone to call for assistance and you may miss your meeting.

Yet how often do we find ourselves derailed from reaching our goals, from finding success simply because we did not have a plan to overcome the resistance that happens every day?

Action, PrinciplesBrett PinegarJune 17, 2013

Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset

Check out Hans Rosling's TED talk, "Let My Dataset Change Your Mindset" and let it help you limber up your mindset. Each of us have views, opinions, and perspectives on just about everything. Our opinions and perspectives are driven by our mindset, something that rarely creeps out of our subconscious. As leaders, if our mindset is wrong, then our gut instincts will be wrong, we will misinterpret the data we see, and likely misjudge the people and situations we find ourselves in.

Leadership, PrinciplesBrett PinegarApril 11, 2013

The Power of Vulnerability

This is one of my favorite TED talks of all time. Brené Brown does a fabulous job of walking the talk at TED. Being vulnerable when most of us would be incapable of doing so. Go Brené!

Principles, PurposeBrett PinegarMarch 18, 2013

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