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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
Immediate Release.
Contact: Brent Filson 413-458-4403, brent@actionleadership.com http://www.brentfilson.com
“Only A Single Leadership Principle Can Save George W. Bush’s Presidency From Melt Down,” Says Leadership Expert.
A Singular Set Of Recent Poll Findings Reveals What Deep Trouble He And His Administration Are Really In.
Williamstown, MA – November 16, 2005. “The hammering George W. Bush’s presidency is taking in the opinion polls with the missteps over Katrina, budget deficits, high gas prices, Plamegate, and the War in Iraq has the administration reeling; but it has not been in serious danger until recent poll numbers were posted,” says leadership expert, Brent Filson.
Filson points to a Washington Post-ABC poll indicating that for the first time in George W. Bush’s presidency, a majority of Americans -- 58 percent to 40 percent -- question his integrity.
“That finding has not been given much notice in the media. But it is like the submerged ice-razor that ripped open the hull of the Titanic,” says Filson, who is the founder and president of the leadership consultancy, The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. “George Bush can govern with low approval ratings. Many leaders have done great things while being unpopular with the people. A leader’s popularity and that same leader’s capacity to get great results don’t necessarily correlate. However, if Bush fails to deal with the integrity question, he’ll be thwarted by popular indignation for the remainder of his term.. Losing the trust of the people means he’ll lose his most important capital.”
Filson avers that the loss in people’s trust stems primarily from the War in Iraq. Recent polls reveal Americans in growing numbers believe he misled the country into war.
Filson says, however, that Bush can get his presidency back on track and be a highly effective leader throughout the remainder of his term if he begins manifesting a crucial leadership principle. “This principle has guided leaders in all nations and all cultures throughout history,” Filson says. “It’s this: that whenever ordinary people needed to perform extraordinary feats, a leader had to go to those people and speak from the heart. It’s as simple as that. And as complicated as that.”
Filson observes that, for starters, the President should avoiding giving his habitual, canned speech before the usual vetted audience but instead should “go to the people.”
“Going to the people would mean giving heartfelt talks about the War in Iraq to a wide variety of audiences in many places around the nation. With the December 15 elections coming up, he has the opportunity to make a dramatic announcement describing a bold, new vision about the War and specific ways he sees to manifest that vision. He must be truthful, authentic, passionate. In this way, he can start to turn the tide of distrust before it overwhelms his administration. The point is that lethal, beneath-the-surface damage has been identified. I hope for the sake of the country that he and his aides heed its counsel.”
See 685 word article by Brent Filson: http://www.actionleadership.com/articles/0059.html
The author of 23 books, Brent Filson first learned about leadership as a Marine Corps rifle platoon commander. For the past 20 years, as a civilian, he has helped thousands of leaders in major companies worldwide achieve sizable and continual increases in results. He has published many books and hundreds of articles on leadership, developed motivational leadership strategies and created and instituted leadership educational and training programs. He has lectured at Columbia University, M.I.T., Wake Forest, Villanova and many other universities. Recently, he has conducted more than 125 radio interviews dealing with leadership in today’s world.
413-458-4403
brent@actionleadership.com
www.brentfilson.com
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