Optimistic leaders build teams that embrace opportunities
As fans settle in to watch their favorite NFL teams vie to reach the Super Bowl, there are lessons to be learned in victory and in defeat. As a speaker and author on optimism, one such lesson on resilience...
Meetings matter! They matter for businesses eager to promote the value of their products, services and their strategic vision for the future. They are important for hotels, resorts, speakers, exhibitors, suppliers, and meeting planners who serve the meetings industry....
The new economy is a dangerous and tremendously exciting place. But it’s unforgiving, and it measures human life in dog years. Three years wasted on the wrong pursuits, or, just as bad, in avoiding the right ones, leaves you...
As I write in The Optimism Advantage, “One of the best ways to inspire others is to share heroic stories from the past and the present. Stories turn experiences into narratives, people into heroes and earned successes into renewed...
Optimism isn’t just a positive attitude; it involves constructive skills put into action to achieve results. One critical skill for your personal and professional life is the art and skill of effective negotiation. As I share in The Optimism...
There’s no question that life is difficult, but the way that you respond to those difficulties will determine whether you’re a victim or a resilient survivor. That continuing choice has little to do with what happens to you, and...
The media seems obsessed with talking about when THE economy will improve. As a result, too many people are watching instead of actively making the best of their own opportunities. They forget that free enterprise all but ensures expansion...
As the recurring ad for the World Cup keeps saying, “It only takes a second!” Like all emerging and existing American soccer fans, I leaped for joy when Landon Donovan’s clutch goal settled into the net with just over...
On June 4th, John Wooden, arguably the greatest college basketball coach of all time, went to be with his maker at the age of 99. In Jim Tunney’s Chicken Soup for the Sportsman’s Soul, I wrote about the Wizard...
Dr. Terry Paulson’s newest book, The Optimism Advantage, has been selected by the Institute for Management Studies as the “Book of the Month” for May. With over 450 major organizations worldwide using IMS as a key component of their...
