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Creating a Thriving Culture

Our Radio Program, Thriving in Business and Life features colleagues, Will Wilkinson and Christopher Harding, as they share insights and valuable techniques from their new book. (Program begins immediately after a short ad from one of our sponsors.)

Our ongoing written blog, below, provides a forum for our latest thoughts and for your comments and ideas. Please join us in creating an ongoing conversation about the approaches you've experienced that help create a thriving culture at work, in your community, or at home.

Secrets of Effective Visualization

Is visualization just a fad or can it actually enhance performance? Brain scientists have been studying this phenomenon for decades. Do you know how to take advantage of what they’ve learned? Here are just some of the conclusions published in the National Institute of Health Library (and tips on how you can apply what they found): 1. Studies have shown that the brain doesn’t differentiate between a real memory and an imagined (visualized) one. In other words, when you imagi

Are You Living Someone Else's Dream?

Why do you do what you do? What drives you? Are you living out your dream or someone else’s? We once had a client we were grooming for his big moment in Nashville. He was an aspiring country singer with a voice that immediately captured the hearts of anyone who heard him. As a result, we’d managed to secure a meeting for a potential record deal for him. This was going to be the start of an amazing path forward—a career that he had previously described as being one of his prim

What If Your Stories Shape Your Reality?

What if the stories you make up in your mind create self-fulfilling prophecies? Sound too fantastic to believe? Well, it’s not a stretch for scientists who study the brain’s self-filtering mechanism known as the Reticular Activating System or RAS. As we explain in our book Thriving in Business and Life, this phenomenon, sometimes known as the “Subaru Effect”, happens as the RAS searches the endless amount of data your receive throughout each day in order to sort out what you’