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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.
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Press Room
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Our Post-Election, Political Divide Is A Great Thing!” says Leadership Expert.
Williamstown, MA, December 1, 2004: – America’s political divisions, made sharper by the recent presidential election, strengthen not weaken our nation, says world recognized leadership expert, Brent Filson.
“Our secret weapon in this war on terror is NOT that we are a nation united,” Filson asserts, “But that we are a nation DIVIDED. As long as we come out of such a bitterly contested election as this one with our democracy strong and functioning, we’ll win this war much sooner than pundits are speculating..”
Filson, who as founder and president of the Filson Leadership Group, Inc., has worked with thousands of leaders worldwide during the past 20 years, says that our republic has been beset, since its inception, by rancorous elections. “In the election of 1800, for instance, passions between the Republican and Federalist parties were so inflamed, the survival of our democracy was in question. Federalist newspapers howled that if Jefferson were elected ‘the teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest would be rampant’. Remarkably -- miraculously even -- the Federalists peacefully handed over power to their hated rivals, setting a precedent that has guided American politics ever since.”
Filson asserts that the crucible of the American electoral process promotes rigorous testing of the issues. “Furthermore, the campaign puts the candidates in a propitious pressure cooker, making them stronger as individuals and leaders.
“For instance, the closeness of the race forced Bush out of the presidential bubble in which he had been giving canned speeches to canned audiences throughout most of his presidency and made him -- especially in the last few weeks of the campaign -- address audiences spontaneously from the heart. He is much the better man and better leader for the campaign experience -- and hopeful, if he doesn’t retreat back into the bubble, will be a much better president.”
Filson observes that it is time to put party differences aside and look at the bigger picture. “That means uniting as Americans to wage the war on terror. We’ll come to see that our nation is far better at waging the war having gone through this divisive campaign.”
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