VALUES ARE THE KEY TO BUILDING VALUE

In a previous post I covered highlights from the outstanding line-up of thought leaders who spoke at The World Business Forum, 2009. (Concern and Contrast at The World Business Forum) One of the big observations that came out of the conference concerned an enlightened view of profit that encompasses [...]

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Last year when Kathy and I were creating our new book, Change The way You See Everything - For TEENS, we had the opportunity to work with some incredible teens all around the country. We came away believing more than ever that Teens have the potential to be our next “Greatest Generation”.
We are passionate believers [...]

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We have been very fortunate to have James Patterson, the world’s best selling author, be a part of the Asset-Based Thinking positive conspiracy. Jim is an exceptionally talented man and a great fan of asset-based thinking. Jim wrote the foreword for our first book as well as our recently published teen book. One of Jim’s [...]

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In the United States there over 20,000,000 teens. Globally the UN estimates that in 2003 the number of young people aged between 10 and 19 reached 1.2 billion, or nearly a fifth of the total world population. That’s a lot of ABTteen power and potential. We believe our next book, Change The Way You See [...]

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When I moved to Los Angeles in the mid ’90’s I had the opportunity to met a wonderful man whose  career in radio and television I had followed and admired over the years. Shadoe Stevens. Shadoe is an international radio legend with an impressive track record of success. He basically invented the most successful and [...]

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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. When we lived in NYC our apartment was on 81St. and Central Park West…the very epicenter and beginning of The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For our family and friends Thanksgiving was an evening and day long celebration of all the great things we all treasured [...]

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While I was in NYC last week I had the opportunity to attend a charity fund raiser held by a great organization called Overcoming Obstacles.
Launched in 1992 by the Jill Chalsty and the  Community for Education Foundation, Overcoming Obstacles is a grassroots program that helps educators teach young people basic “life” skills so often overlooked [...]

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I came across a great blog that is dedicated to helping shape how we communicate and market to the youth of America. http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/index.php. Amy Jussel started Shaping Youth a few years ago as a nonprofit organization addressing media & marketing’s impact on kids and teens. Here’s a quote from the website
“Shaping Youth is a nonprofit [...]

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James Patterson is an Asset Based Thinker. He’s a friend and a very talented, highly successful author who has inspired me with his Mighty Cause. Jim is an outspoken advocate for instilling the passion for reading in kids and teens. As you may know, Jim was kind enough to write the foreword for our first [...]

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Asset-Based Thinking teaches us how to find our mighty cause and to inspire and motivate others to support it and take positive action. I’ve been working hard at this in recent years, and last week I had the opportunity to be part of positive advocacy in action in support of one of my mighty causes…reducing [...]

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