TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE NOT TELLING ME!
Lesson: Organizational hierarchies prevent leaders from getting essential truths and candid opinions, especially if they contradict...
top of page
WELCOME TO JAM VIEWS
Home: Welcome
Home: Subscribe
Jeff's enigmatic journey has yielded unique insights and a rare understanding in business, events of our time, and overcoming challenge after challenge. JAM Views' mission is to help us simply understand what others try to make complex and to, most importantly, help us open our eyes and re-focus the lens through which we see this amazing world.
Home: Text
Search
IF IT’S NOT WORKING, DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
LESSON: When you confront conditions you neither chose nor can readily manage, it is helpful to shift your perspective. That shift can...
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...
ALWAYS VIDEOTAPE PARTNERS & CLIENTS SIGNING ANY CONTRACT AND SAYING THEY UNDERSTAND FULLY
LESSON: Even before the black swan knocks on our doors, we must, sadly, document everything possible to include paperwork, audio...
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...
BE A MASTER OF YOUR BUSINESS, ESPECIALLY WHEN ALL GOES SOUTH!
LESSON: Through extreme adversity become a master of whatever business you must handle. Never, ever, ever rely on attorneys, accountants,...
CEOs MUST PERIODICALLY PURGE THE SYCOPHANTS
LESSON: One advantage of going through severe adversity for CEOs and other leaders is the purging of the sycophants who have told them...
LEADERS MUST BALANCE CYNICISM AND OPTIMISM TO WIN (HAPPY EASTER!)
LESSON: When battling entrenched adversaries, we must find a delicate balance between cynicism to protect ourselves and humility and...
AND THEN I RECEIVED A LOVE LETTER…
LESSON: Even though I’ve described how we are all alone with the responsibility to save ourselves when extreme adversity strikes, there...
BUILD YOURSELF DAILY TO BE READY FOR LIFE’S GREATEST CHALLENGES
LESSON: Outside of our business mission, our company’s focus on driving character, class, etiquette, proper human behavior, and superior...
LEADERS, PRACTICE GREATER HUMILITY AGGRESSIVELY
LESSON: If we have the foresight to arrange our lives today in preparation for not only continued success but also in anticipation for...
LEADERS: SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN YOU WIN YOU LOSE – BE READY
The following is an excerpt from my recently released Amazon #1 Best Seller, When Not If: A CEO's Guide to Overcoming Adversity, Forbes...
GREAT CEO’s ACCEPT THE WORLD IS NOT FAIR
LESSON: As leaders confronted with extreme adversity, we must throw aside all excuses of “this is not fair” or “they owe me because I...
JOY TALLEY, TRUE ANGEL, TRUE STORY
The following is a 100% true story published as an interlude amongst 40 lessons for CEOs in my recently released Amazon #1 Best Seller,...
GREAT LEADERS MUST LEARN HOW TO SEE AROUND CORNERS
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...
CEOs, DON’T FAIL YOUR STAKEHOLDERS LIKE I DID
LESSON: Integrity demands responsibility. When faced with adversity, great leaders must take the responsibility to make good on the...
CEOs, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND YOUR SUCCESS WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU BY YOUR ADVERSARIES
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...
CEO’s MUST UNDERSTAND THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF EXTREME ADVERSITY
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...
LEADERS HELP THEMSELVES BY HELPING AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
LESSON: I reminded myself daily to help as many people as possible, in the knowledge that this approach was my only chance to help...
PAWN SHOPS AND BLACKJACK TABLES
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...
Home: Blog2
Home: Subscribe
bottom of page