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"Brent Filson doesn't just teach you how to lead.  He inspires you to do it!" —Duncan Maxwell Anderson, Senior Editor, Success Magazine.

"What Brent teaches is simple yet profound in its implications. We need to motivate people to choose to be our cause leaders, not have people simply do things. Instead of telling people what you know and want them to do, we need to understand their motivation, tap their emotion, and enlist them as cause leaders to share a dream. I keep Brent's card in my wallet to remind me of the steps in the process. Every Leadership Talk that I give follows this process. I recently used this process to enlist the support in a campaign for corporate giving. As a result we increased the employee participation and realized an increase in the giving rate per employee by 10%.  His approach had a positive impact on the results."

– David Goodnight, Vice President, Asia/Pacific & Latin America

"I've been using Brent Filson's methodologies for more than seven years. And they get results! They not only get results on a tactical level but a strategic level too."

– Richard Brown, President & Global General Manager, Fortune 100 Company.

Brent Filson's Leadership Maxims

INDEX OF ARTICLES

Special Message To Meeting Planners ... Go For Lasting “Level 2 Results” (PDF 100KB).

Iraq, Katrina, And The Leadership Of George W. Bush

A Leadership Lesson: Two Guys With Guns

Status Quo Pep Talks That Can Threaten Your Leadership

Boost Your Leadership Skills By Disciplining Yourself In The Way Of The Question Mark

Blowing Your Own Leadership Horn

Make The Elephant Jump -- Leading With A Kind Heart

The Leadership Strategy: An Unmined Comstock Lode of Results

The Leadership Talk As A Living Hologram

Two Leadership Traps: How To Get Out Of Them.  How To Avoid Them

In Leadership, The Critical Convergence Drives Great Results

In Leadership, Dreams Are The Stuff That Great Results Are Made Of

Your Ultimate Leadership Feedback Loop: Their Leadership

The SAMMER Test: Leading People To Get The Right Results At the Right Time In The Right Way

Leadership For Deep Results: Without Them Are You Wasting Your Leadership And Your Life? (Part Two)

Leadership For Deep Results: Without Them Are You Wasting Your Leadership And Your Life? (Part One)

The Defining Moment: The Straw That Stirs The Drink Of Motivational Leadership (Part Two)

The Defining Moment: The Straw That Stirs The Drink Of Motivational Leadership (Part One)

The Leadership Imperative: Making Your Leadership Your Life

The 20/60/20 Rule Of Leadership. Don’t Go Solving The Wrong Problems

A Leadership Screw Driver: The 90 Day Improvement Plan

Character: Is It Necessary In Leadership? (Part Two)

Character: Is It Necessary In Leadership? (Part One)

25 Leadership Maxims

Leading Bad Actors To Be Good Performers

The 20/60/20 Rule Of Leadership. Don’t Go Solving The Wrong Problems

Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk.  (Part Three)

Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk.  (Part Two)

Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk  (Part One)

How To Use A Powerful Leadership Tool To Step Up Sales Results

Management First - Journal of Business Strategy: An Interview with Brent Filson

The Four Laws Of Leadership. (Part Two)

The Four Laws Of Leadership. (Part One)

In Leadership, Results Are Limitless

CEOs And New Leadership Skills: Getting The Troops To Do The Job

CEOs And Boards Are Locked In A Spiral Of Doom

"He Hate Me": Turning Their Bad Attitude Into Your Great Results

Get Out Of The Communication Stone Age: Give Leadership Talks.

The ‘Leader’s Fallacy’ May Prove Howard Dean’s Undoing.

A Lasting Leadership Lesson: How One Leadership Talk By George Washington Saved The Revolution (And Our Fledgling Nation) From Catastrophe.

ARE YOU SABOTAGING YOUR CAREER?

Dump Your Speeches For Leadership Talks!

On St. Valentine’s Day, Woo Your Lover With
Chocolates, Roses ... AND A Leadership Talk

Three Factors of Leadership Motivation

The Leadership Imperative

Stepping Up Sales Results

The Golden Public Relations Dictum

Einstein, the Universe, and Leadership

A New World Leadership

Motivational Marketing

Small-Unit Leadership And Top-line Growth

Operational Viewpoint Ringing Doorbells Without Howitzers

Leadership and Cross Functional Teams

A Different Leadership Yardstick

Leadership Development and Jumping Out of Airships

A Simple Remedy For The Devestations Of Downsizing (PDF 109Kb)

Good Economic News Can Be Bad News For Businesses (PDF 86Kb)

Productivity: The Tender Trap

The Democratic Candidates (Except One) Don’t Get It! They Flunk Leadership Communication! Says Leadership Authority.click here (PDF 52Kb)

New Leadership for a New War (PDF 44Kb)


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The author of 23 books, Brent Filson’s recent books are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK: THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL and 101 WAYS TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. He is founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. – and has worked with thousands of leaders worldwide during the past 20 years helping them achieve sizable increases in hard, measured results. Sign up for his free leadership ezine and get a free guide, “49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results,” at www.actionleadership.com