I founded Giant Leap Consulting with a mission to inspire people and organizations to have more courage. I choose inspiring courage as our mission because I agree with Aristotle, "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the...
My bet is that the leaders you most admire are the ones who left you better off than they found you by creating opportunities that helped you grow. How? By being open to you, valuing your input and perspective. By being open with you, telling you the truth even if the...
I’m an ex-high diver. Every day for seven years I would climb to the top of a hundred-foot high-dive ladder (the equivalent of a ten-story building) and stand atop a one-foot-by-one-foot perch. Then, after a quick prayer, I would leap into the air like an eagle taking...
Risk taking is, for better words, a risky business, albeit a necessary factor in successful decision making. Use these 5 P’s to help guide you on your path towards choosing the RIGHT risks to take. PASSION: By arousing the strongest, most untamed parts of our nature,...
Though risk may be easiest to observe in macro level trends, it often hides unseen in the normal routine of our everyday lives. Risk is ever-present but only noticed when we stop to think about it. Consider the risks you face in your own life: Do you regularly drive...
To live is to risk. Risk-taking is as essential to life as breathing. It is the oxygen of such things as innovation, entrepreneurialism, leadership, wealth creation, and high adventure. Without risk, there can be no scientific progress, economic expansion, or...
To be organized is to reduce distractions and remove the unnecessary from your life. So stop attending to that stack of junk mail and start delegating those non-critical tasks! Here are five steps to getting organized: 1. SHINE YOUR SPACE! – Nothing says “weak...
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