Discover 3 Powerful Questions to Stop Wasting Meeting Time Talking About Ideas — and Start Creating Results

Exceptionally successful leaders do things differently than average leaders. They harness the power of seven unique leadership laws — I call them the hidden laws of leadership.

Today, we’ll discuss the fifth hidden law of leadership and examine how it helps you make the leap from pretender to contender.

How to Spot Pretenders

Do you know anyone in your life who fits the description of “All talk, but no action”? They’re the people who wake…

Discover the 3 Types of Constraints Standing Between You and Your Goals – and 3 Mindsets You Can Use to Tackle Obstacles

Encountering a challenge that stops you from achieving a goal is frustrating. But dealing with roadblocks and obstacles is a normal part of doing business.

What determines your success is your mindset – and how you choose to deal with the constraint you’re facing.

In this article, we’ll continue our exploration of the 7 Hidden Laws of Leadership.

Now that you’ve learned about the Law of Essential…

Discover 3 Proven Strategies to Move into Vibrational Alignment with Your Intended Results

Transformational leadership is about leading yourself and/or others from one set of results to a new set of results — results that you’d love.

One way to dramatically increase your results is to influence the energy around you by using the Law of Vibrational Fit.

As transformational leaders, we set a clear intention on Monday about the results we would like to accomplish by Friday.

We’re able to imagine what we would like to feel like at 5 p.m.…

Discover the Secret that Empowered Steve Jobs to Make Cutting-Edge Innovations the Norm

Transformational leadership is about moving from one set of results — that most people might see as successful, but reasonable…

Into whole new levels of results that most people can barely dream of. 

Sometimes, the results you want to create are so far beyond what you’re currently experiencing that others – and maybe even you – may believe that they’re impossible to achieve.

One of the 7 hidden laws of leadership can help you overcome disbelief — and transform…

Discover 3 Questions to Unlock Your Leadership Potential and Massively Increase Your Results

When stepping into a bigger leadership role, some people believe they need to adopt a new persona … putting on their leadership face like they’d put on a jacket.

But trying to be someone you’re not — to “fake it ‘til you make it” only weakens you by disconnecting you from your inner power. The key to becoming an exceptional leader is to become more authentic, as my friend and former client, Paula discovered.

A Top Performer Feels Drawn to Leadership…

Practical Strategies to Apply the Leadership “Superpower” of Resilience to Create the Results You Want – No Matter What You Face

Every individual and every organization will face difficult circumstances, disappointments, setbacks, and roadblocks. Resilience is the characteristic we use to bounce back, pick ourselves back up, and rekindle our faith that we can achieve our goals.

Resilience is so important to leadership, in fact, that we call it a “superpower” at Brave Thinking Institute. Resilience is a quality that we help our clients cultivate, whether they’re enrolled in a business leadership program or…

4 Simple Steps to Shift Your Mindset, Break Free of the “Bad Day” Block and Step into Your Power as a Leader

Every Monday morning, millions of people around the world go through the same battle. 

They wake up unmotivated and with an overwhelming feeling of “Today is just not my day.” If the thought of dealing with your agenda for the day makes you want to crawl right back into bed, congratulations … you have a case of the Monday Morning Blues!

Sound familiar?

As leaders, we’d like to think we’re…

Lessons Every Leader Can Learn from Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks to Increase Your Leadership Effectiveness, Impact and Legacy

When we celebrated International Women’s Day a few weeks ago, I was inspired to reflect on women whose inspirational leadership, shared experience, powerful stories and lasting impact have added to my ability to be a better leader. I could list dozens, but two in particular jump out.

Of course, the two women whose leadership have most impacted me personally are my mother, Mary Morrissey, and my wife!

But the two women leaders I’d like to…

Get Back on Track with Your Goals Using Peter Drucker’s Time-Proven, 5-Part Goal-Setting Framework

According to Inc. magazine, about 80 percent of people who make New Year’s resolutions have abandoned their goals by the first week of February. (And by this time of year, it’s probably even worse!)

For transformational leaders like us, that’s a problem. We’re wired to transform things — to take one set of circumstances, a situation, or conditions and then convert them into something even better, bolder, and more impactful. We create lives and results we love, no matter…

How a Pharmaceutical Company Accidentally Confirmed the Power of a Simple Tool to Improve Leadership of Yourself – and Others

Your effectiveness as a leader has a direct impact on many things in your life and business: Your income, your ability to influence and persuade the people you lead, and perhaps most importantly, on the purpose you feel and your ability to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

So it’s not surprising that leaders like us constantly seek tools, tips and resources to become more effective as leaders. We know that investing our…