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What makes your team tick?

Each person on your team has a distinct personality. Can you read their cues? Once you understand what makes each of your co-workers and employees more fascinating, you can start to build a far…

Helping the Passion employee thrive

You want your employees to be happier, more content, and more productive, right? Of course you do. They want that, too. So, we all want the same thing. There’s just one little problem: managing each…

Your own personal style of greatness

Back in 2009, I met someone who would go on to impact the lives of millions of people in an incredibly positive and fascinating way. His name is Lewis Howes. You may have heard about Lewis. He was a…

7 Different ways you might be freaking out

ZING! Lately, that’s what my brain sounds like. “What’ll happen to the economy?”Zing! “Is it really safe to travel again?”Zing! “Will there be another season of Ozark?” Zing! (Okay, the last one isn’t…

How our kids fascinate the world

As I was working on my latest book, I reflected on this sweet memory from several years ago, when I was putting the final touches to FASCINATE: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist. I just had…

5 Tips for selling a radically creative idea to conservative clients

In the first half of my career, I worked in advertising, creating and pitching ideas to clients such as Mini Cooper and Godiva. I learned that it's easy to get buy-in for boring ideas, because they're…

Different is diversity: My interview with advocate Brandon Wolf

When you were growing up, did you ever get the message that in order to succeed, you needed to try harder? Or get "better" at something? Or even “fix” yourself? Here’s the reality: It’s good to be…

Your #1 threat to standing out: distraction

It’s not enough to be the world’s best if no one realizes you’re there. In the battle to make a memorable impression, our talents and skills are hopelessly lost unless we find a way to fascinate our…

How to give an instant smile

A couple of years ago, when my son was 11, he stood for an hour on a San Francisco street, as hundreds of people rushed past after work. He held up a sign to each person who passed, no matter how they…

5 Stages of creativity– and how to create ideas that fascinate

I love the creative process. Yet I hate it, too. Creativity is almost always a love/hate/love relationship. Creativity is a glorious, and frustrating, and absurdly difficult but infinitely rewarding…