It’s great to come across an article that informs, educates and just plain makes you makes you feel good. Ever since Kathy and I published our asset-based thinking book for teens, “Change The Way You See Everything- For TEENS” we have be amazed and inspired by teens putting ABT into action in more ways than [...]

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“A sinister cabal of superior writers.”
This week Technorati’s Blog Crtics published another article I wrote entitled “From the Boardroom To The Barnyard”.  (This is my fifth article )
This latest piece chronicles my journey working with corporate America to The Concept Farm. Writing the article enabled me to put on my asset-based thinking lenses and reflect [...]

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Asset-Based Thinking is infectious and asset-based thinkers just love to tell other people about how ABT has positively influenced their lives. Recently, I have had the honor and privilege to experience two wonderful people putting ABT into practice. Erica Ogrady and Ann Mehl have been kind enough to write to me about how ABT and [...]

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My post last week featured a company that came up with an inventive and creative ABT  approach to changing the way they dealt with job applicants in a market environment of contraction and layoffs. It was very encouraging to see my colleagues in the ad biz making the most of difficult situations with asset-based thinking [...]

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Give up New Year’s resolutions – Grab on to New Year’s aspirations.

Welcome 2009.  So long 2008.  Now’s the perfect time to let Asst-Based Thinking help you decide what you want to   experience, create and achieve in 2009.  If you forget making your new year’s resolutions list and concentrate on making your new year’s aspirations list, [...]

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Last week I saw a great example of Asset-Based Thinking in action when I watched a VIDEO of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press conference about a new Citywide initiative called “Pass It On”. The “Pass It On”  press release describes it as the first of its kind in the nation program specifically designed [...]

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The holidays are both wonderful and sometimes stressful (ok, almost always stressful) and a perfect time to give yourself a personal gift of Asset-Based Thinking. One of Kathy’s colleagues at The Cramer Institute, Dr. Peggy Guest, was interviewed by Patricia Corrigan of the St. Louis Post Dispatch for an article entitled “Five Sure-fire Ways To [...]

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Asset-Based Thinking works wonders in both tough times and good times. When things are going well it’s easier to notice what’s working, appreciate the resources around us and enlist allies and advocates. Scanning for and appreciating assets in good times is simpler, since most of the assets available to us are visible and “on the [...]

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