14 Jun Imagine That! Interview Part #1 of 3
Posted at 08:02h in James Mapes Blog
Today, we are going to talk about something that not a whole lot of business leaders I am aware of talk about and that is, the imagination. ...
09 Jun True Leadership: The Neuroscience of Effective Leaders – Part #3
Posted at 17:15h in James Mapes Blog
Back to the leadership training that you do. So you go in and you do this workshop, what is the outcome and what are you hoping that that audience is going to walk away and be able to accomplish? ...
06 Jun TRUE LEADERSHIP: The Neuroscience of Effective Leaders: #2
Posted at 08:04h in James Mapes Blog
The interview continues on True Leadership: Part 2 of 3 Peter: That’s really interesting. Let’s unpack some of these a little bit, James. It seems to me one attribute here that certainly most great leaders have is they are risk takers, they...
03 Jun TRUE LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW Part 1 of 3
Posted at 06:29h in James Mapes Blog
TotalPicture Radio Interview-True Leadership-Part 1 of 3 ...
06 May A Word About Mortality
Posted at 08:42h in James Mapes Blog
I had a very strange experience in the health club this morning. An acquaintance of mind approached me with what I thought to be, at first, a horrifying story. He had recently discovered a mole on his shoulder that looked suspicious. ...
25 Apr The Emotional Highs and Lows of Creativity
Posted at 10:53h in James Mapes Blog
Last week was quite the emotional high. Over the past months I have been slowly developing a new multiple-leveled program for both pre-surgery patients and the staff and surgeons of the medical profession. I’ve based this program on my private one-one-one work over...
12 Apr The Incentive Program
Posted at 15:20h in James Mapes Blog
Last week I had the privilege of presenting my new program, IMAGINE THAT!, to the top 26 sales leaders of a major and extremely successful communications company. This event was a reward, incentive program where the winners brought their spouses to enjoy a stay...
28 Mar A LESSON FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN
Posted at 13:46h in James Mapes Blog
Yesterday, I watched a segment of a television news program on the 1981 attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. It was a frightening experience to see how very close he came to being killed. Had it not been for the lightning fast...
17 Mar PERSISTENCE
Posted at 10:03h in James Mapes Blog
I’ve been thinking a lot about the quality of persistence. Nine years after writing the first word of my new book, I am now into my tenth rewrite. It has been exhilarating and agonizing. I’ve put it away in a drawer believing...
20 Feb ADVENTURE AND RISK
Posted at 11:57h in James Mapes Blog
Adventure and risk taking wake me up in ways that nothing else does. You might want to do something a little different too....