BRAIN COMPARTMENTALIZATION IS THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE EXTREME ADVERSITY
LESSON: Extreme adversity brings what seems like a never-ending flow of crisis after crisis, each with seemingly more intense...
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,...
LESSON: Overcoming extreme adversity often demands we make one or numerous pivotal decisions. Yet, if throughout our life we take on...
The below lesson is an excerpt from my upcoming book, When Not If: A CEO's Guide to Overcoming Adversity, Forbes Book, January 2024....