The Future of Leadership Power - What You Say Is What You Get®

After Bin Laden, how do we strengthen our economy?

2011-05-02T16:21:00.000-07:00

Hello!
Bin Laden is gone, sigh of relief! Part of the Power Shift I discuss in my latest book...But don't get comfortable! Remember his stated goal:
To bankrupt the U.S.A.!
We are again transferring huge wealth to the Middle East via high gas prices which funds terrorism! Just when we are barely recovering and vulnerable with our debt. No accident!

So I am challenging you: What are you doing to prevent economic harm to the U.S.!
It will take all of us!

What am I doing???
1. Working on funding for a company strengthening our energy independence.
2. Working on funding and consulting for entrepreneurs who can grow their companies and U.S. jobs with new technologies and products.

Why am I doing that instead of my usual corporate consulting?
Corporate earnings are primarily from other countries, emerging markets, meaning few U.S. jobs. It is good they are bringing revenue, but the entrepreneurial sector is really what will save us and grow our economy again. This is my passion!!

So...what are YOU doing to strengthen our economy??!!

It will take all of us, but WE CAN DO THIS!

Thank you!!
Dr Linne

"Build on Your Best"Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System Founder/CEO 480-767-1717Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series: The Secret Language of Great Business Results

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All Rights Reserved.Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Leadership--The Power Shift in Business and Government!

2011-02-02T13:29:00.000-08:00

Hi,

The last few months have been a great study in leadership power, illustrating the ongoing Power Shift From Old Power to New Power facing every leader I explain in my book Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will $urvive?

In business, a recent study on CNN/Money stated that 84% of employees are looking for a new job and will leave when they can find one, up from 60% last year!! Staggering numbers, imagine the losses for leaders/organization when jobs return. Right now many are forced to do the work of 2 for the price of 1 (Old Power, fear they will lose their job if they don't do this),
and are not well led/managed and cannot grow in their careers.

This is a volcano waiting to explode. Only New Power positive collaborative leadership systems are sustainable in keeping the best talent and creating a climate for great innovative profitable ideas. This saves much time and money and creates better results, e. g. increasing revenue 35-40% in a few months in a technology firm, creating a great success in a merger frought with disaster potential -the much loved leader who did not get the CEO job had a heart attack when he was notified! This only took a few months.

The influence of the Tea Party in the November elections clearly shows a demand for greater participation and representation, more New Power leadership processes, based on the expectation of collaboration, the right to make input and be heard. The Obama administration was perceived as Old Power, interesting since his campaign rhetoric was New Power which got him elected. But the Old Power (authoritarian) approach he used in the Health Care Bill really
caused a large backlash, as Old Power usually does, and we see it now challenged in the courts.

Lesson: It is not just platform but leadership process which influences those governed, or in business, employees. Great New Power leadership requires both platform and process, not just platform. Both are crucial. Only the positive is a foundation for sustainable leadership. Negative Old Power leadership always crashes and burns. Don't let this happen to you or to your company! Let us lower your risk and increase your chances of success!

Wishing you the best of success in leading!
Dr Linne Bourget, MA MBA Ph.D.

"Build on Your Best"Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System Founder/CEO 480-767-1717Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series: The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness." Dr. Linne Copyright 2005-2011. All Rights Reserved.Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What You Say Is What You Get®--What is Really Going on for Leaders in Our Economy?

2010-09-16T16:15:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

It's been awhile. Sorry. Travels and computer crash.
But of course, still thinking about leadership and the economic recovery, every day.
Many in the media, as they all have jobs, do not have a clue how tough it is on small business owners. And in NYC and DC, where they congregate, economies and real estate values are again on the rise. Not true out here in the SW!

As the recovery grinds along with the only real uplifting factors due to other economies than the U.S., this means the lessons here have not been learned. The real issue, as I discuss in depth in my book From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?, now out in a 5cd album, is not greed. Shocked? Let's think it through further. Yes, greed wreaked havoc, the gov't, Wall Street firms, home buyers, Freddie and Fannie, mortage brokers, and living beyond their means, all contributed.

But greed is not the cause of this leadership and economic debacle. It is the symptom, not the cause. The real underlying cause is how power is used and abused, authoritarian, "my way or the highway, I will do what I want regardless of the consequences" attitutes. When leaders or institutions or individuals make decisions based on fraud, create derivatives with air under them, buy what they cannot afford, and make other choices that are harmful.

The poll numbers show that people do not accept this type of leadership any more. They have had it. They actually want representation! Breath of fresh air. I am delighted but surprised that this Power Shift from Old to New Power described in my book hit the political world this soon. I thought for sure it would take longer, and predicted in 2006 when starting the book that Old Power leaders would destroy their firms and their careers, which we have seen. I must confess though that when those words came onto the page, I blanched. Could it really be so severe? But it felt right to leave them on the page. Little did I realize how prescient my words were.

Now, I analyze all leadership behavior in terms of power--how do they use power?
Obama ran on the promise of New Power but turns out to be Old Power. Scott Brown is clearly New Power, explaining why he won a long-Democratic seat. Certainly it was not his conservative platform but his New Power leadership process!

Michael Steele's emails sound very much Old Power.
Palin's speeches demonstrate New Power in her process.
Many corporate CEOs sound like New Power when they serve on leadership panels, yet some are still using Old Power in their companies. The big banks, Chrysler, and GM were all Old Power, which is why they crashed. Ford is moving to New Power, thus survived w/out govt. funds. I realize that you have heard me say this before, but think of it now from where we are, not really recovering in the U.S.

Banks are recovering only a little, and the traders are not taking such far reaching risks, they have learned that much. Has their leadership approach changed? Time will tell. Certainly the lack of communication--the black hole-with customers who need help with mortages is Old Power, pennywise and pound foolish. It will cost them many customers in the future.
Try watching the news through this lens of power, see what you learn. Old Power leaders just want power, to grow their own power and their domain's power, just feathering their own nests. New Power leaders want to bring great results for all involved including themselves, more collaboration, less adversarial behavior.

What will a critical mass of New Power look like for leadership? How much of that critical mass must be in place before we have economic recovery?

What do you see, looking at Old and New Power behavior in leaders? Let me know, see my site below. The Power book is out in audio form as a 5 CD album, in my voice, 5 full hours, only $59.95 introductory pricing, not quite up on the site yet, email us from the site. Book description, same as audio book is on the services/products page.
Appreciatively,
Dr. Linne
"Build on Your Best"Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717 Institute for Transformation Leaders& ConsultantsStrategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series: The Secret Language of Great Business ResultsDr. Linne's Leadership Guides SeriesPositive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® QuestionnaireSecrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness." Dr. Linne Copyright 2005-2010. All Rights Reserved.Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Seven Powerful Leadership Lessons From the BP Oil Spill

2010-06-09T07:52:00.000-07:00

Predictions about BP Oil Spill:
Predicted the morning they deployed top kill it would fail. It did.
Predicted current cap strategy would have only modest success. True so far.
Intuition says the final solution will involved some sort of cascading strategy with different mechanical levels involved and that a French scientist working on it will have a crucial key.

Seven powerful leadership lessons call to us from the BP oil spill in the Gulf!
What can we learn from this tragedy?

1. The more risk you have and the more groups involved, the more you put systems

in place to inspect, check, re-check what is going onin great detail. This applies to any part of life, health, environment, business,relationships, spiritual life, workplace issues, and everything else.

This is no time to hang out in la la land. Get into the nitty gritty. BP registered in the Marshall Islands
and not the U.S., thus the last inspection was 2005. If registered in the U.S, would have more frequent inspections.

2. Working in very difficult circumstances, do not assume you

can easily fix what crises may erupt. Be prepared for a tough

long haul once a crisis erupts. Have a plan! Be clear on what success will look like.
(I have this in my Strengths- and Success-Based Positive Planning Manual for clients.)

3. Understand that everything is interconnected, all the companies,

employees, fisherpersons, tourists, government, leaders, etc., and

what you are doing when you work in a risky situation can and will

impact a huge array of stakeholders. Think about this in advance.

(I have helped many clients shift from crisis management to this planning ethos.)

4. Because of #2 and #3, do scenario planning IN ADVANCE for

what might happen and pre-test your solutions so you can mitigate

the negative consequences for all involved when the crisis comes.

5. Make sure the leaders involved can communicate consciously and with empathy,

not just facts. Make commitments in tough times with absolute congruence

between words and nonverbals. (I have worked with many leaders on this.)

6. Understand that however upsetting, as Americans you can bet that

we will make sure some good comes from this no matter what!

7. Spiritually, everything happens for a reason and there is always a higher

positive purpose, so stay tuned and look for it. Be careful not to

send more negative energy or judgment into the Gulf, but send

them positive thoughts of healing for people, economy, creatures, environment.

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you power to predict & profit,
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D

"Build on Your Best"Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protectDr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System Founder/CEO 480-767-1717Institute for Transformation Leaders& ConsultantsStrategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal FreedomAuthor, What You Say Is What You Get® Series: The Secret Language of Great Business ResultsDr. Linne's Leadership Guides SeriesPositive Quotient PQ® QuestionnaireAppreciative Quotient AQ® QuestionnaireSecrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness." Dr. Linne Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

New Tech Companies--Old Power Leadership

2010-04-29T10:00:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

The great upset about Facebook and privacy is causing an uproar, and rightly so.

Nothing online is private but I completely agree. No trust, no business!! Customers should have the
right to choose how much they want public vs. private!

As an economist & leadership power expert, I have been disappointed to see that the heads of the big

tech. firms tend to unilateral power grabs over their customers while creating the image

of being cool and having young employees and open cultures. Microsoft started it of course, being the

800 lb. gorilla, had to be stopped by the govts in US & Europe. Still putting out half baked products

so customers are forced to assume the costs to make it right. Huge losses for small business owners

Amazon did that with requiring all its sellers to use their book printer, who wasn't that great; Google did it trying to put all authors books online for free without their consent and had to be stopped by lawsuits (always remember one of the founders is Russian!), Apple is trying to do it by censoring any apps by people who say anything negative--fair criticisms by professionals, not loony personal attacks--about the CEO.

Now Facebook. Amazing, these great companies with young founders using the same old authoritarian male model trying to control us as customers/sellers. Yawn. What part of It's America We Get the Freedom to Choose don't they understand? If they had great leadership they could do so much more. Just beware--and vote with your dollars! Customers hold power--be sure you use it well and wisely!

Is this a reflection of Obama's leadership style? Pretending to be collaborative positive New Power but really being authoritarian? Or are they like this anyway?

The weirdest thing to me: Inside the companies people love to work there, their ideas are

encouraged, you can work weird hours, dress way down. They hire the best and the brightest. They pay well.Google feeds you organic food, even! But they treat us customers like sheeple. Go figure. That

lack of integrity will always come back to bite them over time. For years Microsoft stock traded stuck

at 28 or below, now only up to 30 due to Windows 7. What goes around comes around.

And as I say in my trademarked positive leadership books, What You Say Is What You Get®

A positive collaborative leadership woman expert's work is never done......

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

"Build on Your Best"
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Authoritarian Power Marches Onward- What You Say Is What You Get®

2010-04-09T17:41:00.001-07:00

Sometimes being a leadership power expert can be extremely frustrating, leaders will be most successful by using new power in New Power countries, and Old Power with Old Power countries. Yet here we have a US president doing precisely the opposite.

At home, he is using authoritarian old power forcing us to purchase a certain item or be fined for not doing so.

Yet with old power nations, who scoff at positive collaborative New Power and regard it as a weakness to be manipulated, he is using collaborative new power.

Being a lady prevents me from using the language of my MILITARY OFFICER FATHER, needless to say this power is precisely backward from what it should be.

For a while I thought his entire first year focused on health care was a misstep. But now I realize it was a very precisely crafted Old Power strategy to control us. By gaining control of health care and student loans he has control over major segments of the population.

Strategies always reveal goals. Had he wanted economic recovery as his first priority, he would have put jobs first. Clearly not a fan of the private sector as we see repeatedly from his statements he put private sector jobs last, low on the list. He sent stimulus money to states to keep or expand government jobs.

This large expansion of government control is not accidental, we know from his comments on the health care bill that he feels justified passing legislation, he will sign legislation even though it is unpopular, not taking the will of the people as the first order of business.

How much control will he take over the banks? The housing sector? By waiting so long to help small business in any way he delayed innovation and creativity, even green companies, who could not get loans.

At first I thought he was making mistakes from inexperience in an executive role. Now I realize his actions are carefully calculated in accordance with his goals.

Time to speak out! It is all about power. We need leaders who can effectively use New Power here at home and New or Old power effectively abroad, as circumstances require.

God help us all.
In Gratitude for our country, its values, and origin.
Dr. Linne Bourget

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Good News Risky News for the GOP-Obama's Old Power Onslaught-What You Say Is What You Get®

2010-03-17T10:52:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone

Good News:

Obama's Onslaught of Old Power authoritarian my
way or the highway behavior re: Health Care Bill is resulting in more
voter awareness, Tea Party demonstrations, and far more
negative press. People are seeing the threat to us.

He is revealing his true angry Old Power true leadership stance. Charlie
Rangel told a Republican Rep. a year ago that they would push the
health care bill through no matter what.
Fewer people are fooled.
He is mobilizing the people against the way he uses power, not just
against the bill.

Risky News:

Our freedoms to choose are at risk.
Obama's Onslaught has the power of the majority party,
and he is determined to use any means to get what he wants
regardless of what the people want.

As the Tea Party is wise enough not to create a 3rd Party,
the pressure now is ALL on the GOP to present
New Party candidates who not only are conservative but
who deeply understand the Power Shift to New Power
that voters are demanding. Even Scott Brown does
not fullly realize that it was his New Power leadership
process, not just his conservative platform, that elected him.

Before, politics was Old Power.

That is no longer acceptable to the people. There is
no longer any trust of established politicians, as they
are perceived as Old Power, out for themselves but not for
constituents.

Post Scott Brown, politics has changed. Brown brought the
Power Shift from Old to New Power, shaking up politics.

Unless ALL GOP 2010/2012 candidates understand this and have
training in how to lead/communicate as New Power leaders,
the GOP is still at risk as a Party and is leaving our
nation at risk for the worst disaster you and I have
seen in our lifetime. What You Say Is What You Get®!

The opportunity is huge to move our country forward.
The risk is huge if the GOP does not do this right."

Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved Dr. Linne Bourget MBA Ph.D.

Urgently,
Dr. Linne Bourget
"Build on Your Best"
Giving you power to predict & profit,
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
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Consultant, Speaker, Author: From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up Live the Life You Love-Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Positive Quotient PQ® & Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaires
Master Intuition System for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Old Power, New Power, Obama, and the Banks

2010-02-25T11:46:00.000-08:00

HI Everyone,

Why are the banks not lending now that things are better?

One of the greatest bottlenecks and frustrations in the
economy now is the banks not lending. A Congressman from
IL states companies in his state with orders on their books
cannot get funding to produce the products to fill the order!
This is nuts!

The issue is, why?
What has scared them into holding onto all the capital they
have and lending much less than before? Even after they
have paid back TARP money? Why would they give up the
additional profits from lending?

The underlying reason is Obama's use of Old Power attached
to TARP funds. Obama is assuming he has the right to expand the right
of the Federal government to control banks even after they have paid back TARP funds. This would frighten any industry. Old Power always scares people into self-protective choices even if those choices are not the most profitable!
Banks are no exception. They are in survival mode like many other industries
and small businesses. Until this changes, they will not lend, which will
continue to slow/dampen our economic recovery.

Our banks are at the core of our economy. As long as they do not feel
safe to lend, the rest of us business owners and leaders won't feel
safe to expand. Trust is everything.

Dr. Linne
Leadership power futurist, Fortune 10, 50, 100 Consultant
Economist, behavioral scientist, pioneer of positive strengths-based leadership
"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2010. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What You Say Is What You Get(R)--Leadership Culture, Corporate Culture and Political Leaders

2010-02-16T13:59:00.000-08:00

HI Everyone,

So sorry for my silence, Cox employee error disabled my internet forever, they had a hard time figuring out how to fix it. Techno-nightmare. But I am back and I have things to say!!

Leadership is the cause and cure of everything! Someone told me this--very powerful.

Implications and follow-up to my latest book, From Old Power to New Power--Which Leaders Will Survive? Please see below.

Leaders face the toughest challenge ever--right now!!

What do you think about corporate leaders' awareness of the lessons from the economy?
Other than the traditional layoffs and cost-cutting, do you think leaders understand
the real meaning? What types of corporate culture are leaders building now? How well is that working?

Right now smart leaders are nervous because the ground is shifting
under their feet. Do they know why? The underlying cause of all this difficulty, with real unemployment beyond 20%? Do you? No, it's not just the greed.

It's all about how power is used--the Power Shift from Old to New Power. Old Power, my way or the highway, is under siege in the U.S., in business, in politics, at home, at work. Everywhere.

What does this mean? What is New Power? Positive collaborative, and open and inclusive. Highly skilled, not armchair psychology. The only form of leadership the best talent and Gens. X/Y will tolerate.

This creates a huge challenge for leaders steeped in Old Power, like Bob Nardelli of Home Depot and Chrysler, as Old Power leaders will harm their careers and take down companies.

Yes, Wall Street firms and GM too, all Old Power firms. In trouble if still alive.
This Power Shift affects all leaders. Whether you like it or not, it marches on.
And now it is hitting politics. Bayh stepping down. Palin stepping up. Brown winning Kennedy's longtime seat, a New Power leader in his position and process. Both traditional parties are of course Old Power. Tea Party members criticize both parties. Voters resent the back room deals and the lack of focus on jobs. Guess what this is about?

Not bi-partisanship. Not Democrats, not Republicans. It is about the Power Shift from Old to New Power. People are demanding it. From both parties. Obama is not focused on what matters most--jobs--he did so too little to late. He decided-Old Power--that the agenda was health care. Upset many, as he campaigned under a New Power image, which is why he won.

Old Power used internally in New Power countries will always cause disruption and backlash. They may not know this framework but those no longer supporting Obama
are reacting to how his administration has used power in ways that has not helped.
Specifics? Stay tuned....more coming on leadership power, culture and style.

Best,
Dr Linne

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph.D.
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
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5 Leadership, Consulting, & Coaching Tips for Hidden Revenue in Your Business: Free newsletter

2009-10-08T17:30:00.000-07:00

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HI Everyone,

Recessions may crunch us temporarily but the seasons come reliably. We can count on them and learn from them. Fall is a time of harvest. Dig a little for more abundance!

Peace and Prosperity to you,

Dr. Linne

Fall Harvest and Life-Transforming Holiday Gifts—5 Leadership, Consulting, &

Coaching Tips for Unearthing Hidden Resources for Revenue in Your Business

Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., “Dr. Appreciation”, Leadership Futurist,

Author, Speaker, Consultant, Strategist, Business Intuitive, Dancer

“A Passion for the Practical” -We give you New Power to predict, profit and protect.

Welcome to this *free*, positive, business-transforming blog. We:

+ Give you positive perspectives and strategies to strengthen you and your business.

+ Share insights from 25+ years of working with client executives.

+ Help you stay positive in a sea of negative language, attitudes and news.

Fall is harvest time, reaping the abundance of spring and summer work. How can we increase our harvest during the recession?

"To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate." John Glenn, astronaut

1. Want more revenue?

2. In a cash flow crunch?

3. Want to reduce your costs but are not sure how?

4. Have a sense more is available but not sure how to get to it?

When you are really busy, you are in a hurry. When business is slow, you have more time, but anxiety, according to research, gets in the way of thinking clearly. These 5 tips can jog your mind, increase revenue and reduce costs. When you are really busy, you don’t have time for these, but when business drops off, these are essential!

1. Follow up on those leads you let slip by you when you were busy or anxious. In your networking you find more than you can follow up on when you are busy, but in downtime periods, find every business card and email address and follow up with marketing. You might be surprised. The good you are seeking is seeking you.

2. Expand your vision, focus on what you want, not on what you don’t have. Find new networks and groups to market your business. Example: As a Fortune 10, 50, 100 consultant, small business owners were not my market. But they need what I have. So until those big companies start hiring consultants again, small business values my work. And they decide and move faster!

3. Update your website with more compelling copy and expand your email list.

4. Inventory your office supplies and equipment, so you know what you have and won’t buy what you don’t need. Sell any equipment or supplies you no longer need. Downsize office space if that is needed for you.

5. Save money, go green! Re-use all paper & envelopes for notes or internal office copies. I haven’t bought scrap paper for decades. Refill ink cartridges. Open the window instead of using the AC. Buy used/recycled products and supplies. They save money and have fewer toxic emissions (VOCs) than new products.

Concerned about the future of your company?

Remember, as a business intuitive, I can see the future of your company and help you align with it for maximum success. Most leaders are hungry to see their future, which is usually bigger than they have conceived. How about you? How big a vision are you willing to hold?

Do your holiday gifts meet the deepest craving in human nature? These Life-Transforming Holiday Gifts do! They Will Praise You For Giving Them!! See our positive powerful easy tools at www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com . A % goes to charity!

Featured Product of The Month: Beyond Appreciation! Learn how to talk about strengths! What You Say Is What You Get®: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, New 2^nd edition endorsed by Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul^® and Co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 29 leadership books, including Judgment and Transparency, consultant to U.S. Presidents, the United Nations and Fortune 500 CEOs.

Can you pass this leadership test? What every leader needs to know to survive!

What is the real underlying cause of the Economic crash? The media don’t tell you! My newest does! From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?

The real story behind the economic crash!

“Dr. Linne Bourget is the female personification of the Dalai Lama. She has remarkable talents and gifts and …which uniquely position her to effect world change. I have had the opportunity to meet many famous and powerful “World Leaders” over the course of my life, and while that is always a special opportunity, it is even more rare to meet a true “World Changer”. Dr. Linne, with her work on leadership power, has the capacity to effect world change.” Bill Bartmann, Author, Billionaire Secrets to Success, Billionaire Business Coach

See http://www.oldpowernewpower.com services and products page, and on Amazon.com

To give you stronger support for positive leadership in negative times, at www.youpublish.com/whatyousayiswhatyouget, please see my e-books & articles.

"Build on Your Best" Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System Founder/CEO 480-767-1717 Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive? Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series: The Secret Language of Great Business Results Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation" Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders! "The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness." Dr. Linne Copyright 2005-2009. All Rights Reserved. Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

I Can See the Future of Your Company--Leadership Futures

2009-09-09T17:58:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

Theme: Enough with the recession! I have had it! Time to grow your business & revenue.

I can see the future of your company. How? Keep reading.

1. Are you buying into the recession?

2. Are you assuming you can’t grow your business yet?

3. Is your revenue suffering as a result of your negative assumptions?

4. Are you being hard on yourself because your business or career is not growing?

5. Are you trying to tough it out alone without the support you need?

6. Do you want powerful tips to grow your business during these tough times?

Mark Victor Hansen recently said the only thing you should be saying about your business is:

“My business is booming.” I tried it adding it to my usual positive spiritual work, even though I am in an industry which is usually cut first and hired back last. It works. Results: Clients and connections for business are showing up, and they are good quality also. What You Say Is What You Get®. Hey, this positive spiritual leadership work I do really pays off! I have also been asked to speak on the same stage with Mark, on an abundance cruise out of Southern Calif. in January 2010. I feel like a little kid in a healthy candy store!

Leadership and Consulting/Coaching Tips

Don’t settle for what you see around you. Settling is not required. Despite the media, and despite your losses, there is always a niche market somewhere that needs your services/products. Always. These are my passionate questions I think about every day. Use them, ponder them, meditate on them, ask yourself these before you go to sleep:

1. What strengths are you under-emphasizing that you could apply more to your work?

2. What are the niche markets you haven’t thought of yet that need what you have and will pay you for it?

3. How can you find them and contact them?

4. Who do you know who can open a door for you in that niche?

5. What do you have that adds massive value to their lives?

6. How can you increase the value you add to your customers’ lives?

“To earn more, express your best more.”

Dr. Linne’s Power Quotes

By Universal Law, if you send out a clean positive request, unmuddied by the negative, the resources you need will show up for you. Focus on your greatness and Be alert. One opportunity recently came to me because I noticed a license plate from my parents’ home state!!

Example: As a Fortune 10, 50, 100 consultant, small business owners were not my market. But they need what I have. So until those big companies start hiring consultants again, small business are a great niche for me.

How did I make the shift? My intuition in August of ’08 told me to drop all my categories and expect the unexpected. I heeded my intuition, being a 4^th generation intuitive and a 25+ yr. expert in executive intuition. Small companies showed up!! Not in my typical industries either. They want my intuitive and spiritual as well as my positive leadership expertise. And I recently manifested

revenue for a client by visualization/prayer! She was thrilled.

I can see the future of a company and help that company align with it for maximum success. They are hungry to see their future, which is usually bigger than they have conceived.

How about you? How willing are you to think bigger about possible revenue sources? You can do this if you are willing to work at it!!

At www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com we have positive powerful easy tools for you. A % goes to charity.

Featured Product of The Month: To keep you on a more positive track now.

What is the real underlying cause of the Economic crash, that the media don’t tell you?

My newest books explains this!

New! From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive? The real story behind the economic crash! Can you pass this leadership test? What every leader needs to know to survive! “Dr. Linne Bourget is the female personification of the Dalai Lama. She has remarkable talents and gifts and …which uniquely position her to effect world change. I have had the opportunity to meet many famous and powerful “World Leaders” over the course of my life, and while that is always a special opportunity, it is even more rare to meet a true “World Changer”. Dr. Linne, with her work on leadership power, has the capacity to effect world change.” Bill Bartmann, Author, Billionaire Secrets to Success, Billionaire Business Coach

See http://www.oldpowernewpower.com services and products page, and on Amazon.com

To give you stronger support for positive leadership in negative times, at www.youpublish.com/whatyousayiswhatyouget, please see my e-books & articles.

Dr. Linne’s Leadership Guides-What You Say Is What You Get®-- – Power Pages Articles

1. The Five Most Dangerous, Costly Mistakes Leaders Make – Do You? Power Pages #1

2. Can You Pass this Leadership Test? What is a Positive Focus and Why Should You Lead Positively? Power Pages #2

3. Can You Pass this Leadership Test? How To Create A Positive, Profitable Organizational Culture: What You Say Is What You Get ® Power Pages #3

4. Outrageous Success In Spite of Your Self Esteem – A Radically Different View Power Pages #4

5. What Collaboration Asks of Us-Twelve Conditions Leaders Must Meet to Create High-Powered Teams By Dr Linne B….and Kathleen Ryan – Power Pages #5

6. What is The Deepest Craving in Human Nature? How Can It Grow Your Business by Quantum Leaps? Power Pages #6

7. What Collaboration Asks of Us-Twelve Conditions Leaders Must Meet to Create High-Powered Teams By Dr Linne B….and Kathleen Ryan – Power Pages #7

8. How to Avoid the Seven Most Costly, Dangerous Mistakes in Hiring Corporate Consultants and Coaches – Preview of E-book Power Pages #8

9. A Goal is Not a Goal is Not a Goal: Lessons from Joe Power Pages #9

10. Five Powerful Profitable Pre-Requisites for Leading Transformation – Attention Leaders, Coaches, and Consultants Power Pages #10

11. A Radical New Goal Setting System - Master the Speed of the Global Economy Power Pages #11

12. Why Hybrid Power Works for Cars Not Leaders: What You Say Is What You Get® Power Pages #12

Dr. Linne’s Leadership Guides-What You Say Is What You Get® E-books

1. Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages – What You Say Is What You Get®

2. The Power of Costomers – Your Revenue, Your Time

3. Four Secret Sources of Positive Power & Profit for Leaders, Consultants & Coaches

4. The Five Most Dangerous, Costly Mistakes Leaders Make in Mergers and Re–Organizations-Do You?

5. How to Avoid the Seven Most Costly, Dangerous Mistakes in Hiring Corporate Consultants and Coaches.

6. How “Abdicrat” Leaders Put Their Companies in Danger – Can You Pass This Leadership Test?

7. 9 Secret Keys to Having Great Clients and Keeping Them for Years—Attention, Consultants and Coaches!

8. How to Make A Million Dollars by Talking to Yourself! What You Say Is What You Get®

9. How the New Perfectionism Paves Your Path to Profits - A Radical View: What the Experts Don't Want You to Know

10. A Radical New Time Management System - Master the Speed of the Global Economy

11. How Emotions Unleash More Profit Power in Your Business: Three Lessons from Clients-- What You Say Is What You Get®

12. Positive Leadership – What It Is and Is Not: Can You Pass This Leadership Test? What You Say Is What You Get®

13. Every Word You Speak Either Makes Money or Loses Money for Your Company: What You Say Is What You Get®--5 Powerful Lessons from Clients

A Friend Insisted I Share This with You –My Different Hats:

1. An economist, MBA, and leadership futurist specializing in the future of leadership power.

2. A social psychologist, expert in group and interpersonal dynamics.

3. A Ph.D. in change leadership, founder of the field of positive strengths-based leadership, communication and change.

4. The developer of many positive vision-based and strengths-based systems for leaders, for FASTer easier better results with much less stress while strengthening all involved, e. g. planning, delegation, feedback, teams, groups and meetings, change without tears, M&A, bold beginnings and elegant endings, cross-functional cooperation, great working & customer relationships, more…

5. Author, seven books, 50 e-books & many articles; a dynamic high-content speaker for 25 years.

6. A consultant to leaders for over 25 years including Fortune 500 firms.

7. A 4th generation intuitive, creator of the Master Intuition System for Leaders with a 25 year track record, and a business/science/technology intuition expert.

Holding a vision for you of peace and prosperity,

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

"Build on Your Best"

Are Your Relationships Suffering from the Economy? What you say is what you get(R)!

2009-08-05T14:23:00.000-07:00

August 2009

Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

This month many are telling me their relationships are suffering from economic stress. How about yours?

1. Are you and your closest associates friends and family stressed out about money?

2. Are you or those close to you snapping, raising your voice, speaking negatively?

3. Are your relationships suffering as a result?

4. Are you being hard on yourself because of the economy which you cannot control?

5. Are you trying to tough it out alone without the support you need?

6. Do you want powerful tips to keep your relationships positive during these tough times?

See below for my powerful secret combination of tips to avoid relationship damage and keep

your relationships more positive.

Are your relationships suffering from the Economy Blues? One person finds himself

snapping at the most positive person he knows. Another finds himself spouting political

rage, dumping it on a friend. Couples in financial stress are snapping at each other.

How about you?

1. Are you and your closest associates, friends and family stressed out about money?

2. Are you or those close to you snapping, raising your voice, speaking negatively?

3. Are your relationships suffering as a result?

4. Are you being hard on yourself because of the economy which you cannot control?

5. Are you trying to tough it out alone without the support you need?

6. Do you want powerful tips to keep your relationships positive during these tough times?

My broker just called. I was going to call him, but he called me just then. The first thing he said was,

“I have been thinking about you. I know what hard times you are going through, but you always have a positive uplifting attitude and tone of voice. You are amazing. Anyone else in your circumstances would be ticked off at the world, but you are not.”

His appreciation touched me deeply and meant so much, as I work hard to walk my Positive Leadership talk and stay positive. He let me know that he really respected my positivity under the stress of losses. I am not angry. I am not taking medications. I have much peace despite the financial challenges and hassles which take up a lot of my time and weigh on me. In order to get that peace, I do many things daily to keep peaceful.

How about you? How are you doing under economic stress? A number of people have indicated to me this month that they are under huge stress and having trouble staying positive. (If you have a job, you should be very very very very grateful!) Some of them have been “leaking” Old Power behavior, even though in their best selves they know better.

They have found themselves furious about national leadership, about their personal losses, snapping at others, and reverting to criticism without any appreciation. It made me realize that although I wrote the book From Old Power to New Power, Which Leaders Will Survive for leaders, the same Old Power negative behaviors are causing problems in personal relationships….

Dear me! Another book to write! Maybe audios instead! Meanwhile, my secrets for staying positive and avoiding negative states--the magic is the combination of all of them together.

Leadership and Consulting/Coaching Tips: Negative Old Power influences to avoid and positive New Power strategies:

Negatives to Avoid If You Want More Positive Relationships

1. Sugar and alcohol, Refined carbs, white flour (except for a glass of red wine with dinner. One!)

They agitate then depress you. Eating these is being overly aggressive to yourself. Try fruit!

2. Negative emotional news and outbursts on the media. This is not entertainment, you are being programmed if you allow it. Let them shout, not you! Any media or stories that paint anyone as a helpless victim. We are not helpless.

3. Avoid negative angry people and relationships, as they will keep you stuck in the negative. This is very

bad for your mental, spiritual, emotional and physical health. Hey, other than that......

4. Stay away from any negative religious messages or programming. God is not angry at you.

5. Watch your own thoughts and words. If negative, switch to the positive. What You Say Is What You Get(R)! This is not a time to criticize yourself or your closest people. Express your feelings without criticizing others. (We teach these skills to clients.)

Many are feeling vulnerable and uncertain from the Economy Blues, especially business owners or the unemployed facing losses. What’s done is done. Move forward based on what you want and what your inner wisdom calls you to be and do.

New Power Positive Relationship Strategies for Leaders, Consultants, Employees, Coaches, and Close Friends & Family:

1. Eat healthy, it will stabilize your moods. Don’t overeat it will drag you down.

2. Exercise safely to boost your mood—yeah, neurotransmitters! You know the drill--check with your doctor first!

3. Give yourself positive supportive relationships and spiritual environments, prayer, meditation. We all need support!

3. Stick with positive media, stories, and people! Speak positive words. What You Say Is What You Get(R)!

4. Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate yourself and others! What You Say Is What You Get(R)!

“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life.”

Margaret Cousins

My broker got it right! So can you! Time to end each day or week with appreciations. Take turns, you go, they go, you go, they go. Very powerful. At the end of each day I appreciate myself out loud for the good things I did that day. Your relationship with yourself is at the core of your relationship with others. Time to build a more appreciative relationship within yourself. My Inner Team Works system I use with clients helps them create deeply self-respectful and self-loving relationships with themselves, thus improving their relationships with others.

For the full discussion of the dynamics, do’s and don’ts of appreciation, see “Wheel 2” in the Engine and 4 Wheels Leadership Language of Strengths System, What You Say Is What You Get®: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, 2nd. Ed.

Wishing you peace and prosperity--focusing on it for all of you more than ever!

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

Check out our site, www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com for books and products to help you

stay positive--30 years of positive communications expertise goes into them!!

"Build on Your Best"

Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

How well do you see and apply the strengths in your business?

2009-07-02T18:48:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

This is an issue people have brought up to me this month. How well do you do this?
To build on your strengths, you need to know in depth what they are!!! And how to apply them!

What is the practical application of greatness-for re-building

and growing your business in a tough economy?

Every company needs different strengths to thrive, grow and re-build, especially in a tough economy. How good are you at seeing your own strengths and those of your key people, suppliers and customers? What is it costing you not to do so? How can every part of your business do better with a strategic and practical application of those strengths? Any less than this will leave your company less successful than it can be! I find that few people know their strengths. Do you?

When I started this work, I was amazed to find that senior executive teams did not know their strengths or each other’s strengths and did not have a language of strengths to discuss it, and were shy or embarrassed to venture into this discussion. One team, after years of fear and constricted communication, turned around in one day using just 2 wheelsof the Engine and 4 Wheels Leadership Language of Strengths System in my book (see below) What You Say Is What You Get®:

The Secret Language of Great Business Results. Then they were eager to talk, change, grow, and plan. It was so exciting! This took very caring precise consulting, but it worked great!

How well do we know the top strengths of all our key players and how well are we using them to grow our business? I f I interviewed your employees confidentially, how good would they say you are and they are at doing this. I found that many clients did not know their strengths and did not know how to see them, much less apply them to every aspect of their business.

“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.

It is the ability to recognize ability.” Robert Half, Half International

July Holiday—Happy Independence/Interdependence Day

We are all interdependent with others in our businesses. As we celebrate our country’s

great heritage, even in our current problems, remember to see, really see, that independence is no longer enough. Many different skills are needed for success—yours

and others who support your business and family. Happy Interdependence Day!

Focus on strengths you need in your business and the specific strengths of all your key people, inside & outside your business! At www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com we have powerful easy tools for you. A % goes to charity.

Featured Product of The Month:

Updated Leadership Language of Strengths System in the New 2^nd edition, the handbook, What You Say Is What You Get®: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, endorsed by Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul^® and Co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 29 leadership books, including Judgment and Transparency, consultant to U.S. Presidents, the United Nations and Fortune 500 CEOs.

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2009. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What is the most powerful foundation-the deepest key-for re-building and growing your business in a tough economy?

2009-06-13T14:33:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

Recently I have been having a HAT Conference, a meeting of all my roles, all the hats I wear.

Putting on my economist/MBA hat, I see the banks not lending, prolonging the credit crisis and the housing debacle, because:
1. Their capital requirement are higher, six to one for foreclosures.
2. Their toxic mortgage assets are valued higher than reality dictates since the mark to market rules were relaxed, allowing them to value assets at higher than market levels even though the mortgage assets are still declining in value.

Note that the markets rose only after the rule was changed, but the underlying assets
are worth even less now!

This raised the question for me, putting on my hat as a leadership power futurist:

What will it take to rebuild companies to get out of this recession faster? So many have lost so much. What do leaders need to do to create businesses on a stronger foundation? Given that the underlying cause of the economic crash is the use and abuse of Old Power (see previous posts) and that Old Power industries, such as autos and financial services caused the greatest losses and took the greatest hits, I claim in my new book

From Old Power to New Power--Which Leaders Will Survive? that only leaders who make the Power Shift to New Power (positive collaborative leadership based on integrated systems for strengths-based strategy and tactics) will survive, and that Old Power leaders will destroy their careers and companies, as we have seen.

Old Power--fear based, authoritarian, out only for onesself, excessive greed, unethical illegal activities--is over. The risk is simply too high. We are too interdependent for it to work anymore. Only knowing the greatest strengths in your company gives you the right foundation for survival and success. Anything less
is too slow and underperforms too greatly, especially with the downward pricing pressure in the global econony.

Example:

Two senior executive clients, hesitant to talk about their strengths, had difficulty clarifying their roles and responsibilities, frustrating both despite their respect for each other. They were both doing parts of their job they did not like, which the other was itching to do. When I got them to have this discussion, using my Engine and 4 wheels positive leadership language system, their effectiveness and relationship improved instantly.

Every time clients have applied strengths-based leadership systems, their effectiveness has improved dramatically, and faster than any of us would have imagined.

So in this tough economy, speed of results is the key to survival. What is the fastest way to rebuild, reboot and reclaim your business as more powerful?

Regardless of the ups and downs of the economy, your business leaders and employees have a powerful key to get back on track and thrive—your deepest greatness. External circumstances cannot take your greatness from you. Beyond that mundane list of strengths for job interviews, everyone has far more to contribute than most businesses realize, have accessed, or have applied.

But nowhere in our culture do we learn our Greatness Power and thus nearly everyone under-performs and under-contributes, and every company under-earns! We can do better!

How well does your company tap into and apply the deepest greatness of all involved?
What is it costing you not to do so? How can every part of your business do better with deeper use of strengths?

Any less than this will leave your company less successful than it can be!

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2009. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

How to Protect Your Relationships from Economic Stress

2009-05-05T17:37:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

All around me I am hearing of relationships at work and at home in trouble because of financial setbacks and stress. I am reminded of a quote from the movie, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"--"Money is a sad reasons for folks to be together or apart." Don't let money issues destroy your relationships! Be grateful for those relationships--they keep us going.

How are your relationships? Are you and others acting strangely, more tense?
How can you protect the morale in your business and at home?
If I interviewed your employees confidentially, how fearful would they say they are?

What can you do to counterbalance and heal the negative input into relationships due to the economy?

Do the math: If you add in negatives, you have to add in positives just to get back to zero. Therefore
you need to add even more positives to get your relationships on the positive side again.

What can you add? Positive listening, appreciation, asking positive questions. Reviewing your successes.

Now, in this situation you need to be highly skilled at this due to all of the sensitivities, so you don't open your mouth, insert foot and cause trouble. Never in my 30 years in positive leadership have I seen such a deep and extensive need for positive leadership and communication skills, highly developed skills, as there is now!

Think about it--how important is it to you to have relationships that support you, and you supporting them?

What are you willing to do to create/strengthen them?

If you want help with these skills, please see our site for books and e-books and e-articles.
As Dr. Appreciation, I have the most experience , pioneering these skills 30 years ago. Clients taught me early on, when there was no research or resources other than my work, that you really have to know what you are doing. You cannot just open your mouth and hope the right things come out.

Right now, what is more important than positive relationships?

Wishing you the best of relationships at work, for more profit, and at home, for more peace.

Appreciatively,
Dr. Linne
"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Time to Clear out the Old and Prepare for Your New Business Focus

2009-04-20T14:08:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

A few forward-thinking business owners and leaders are already asking, How can I rebuild my business,
reposition ourselves to profit from the coming difficulties and the ultimate turnaround? Are you asking
this? If not, you should be? I have re-configured my services into smaller less expensive chunks while
at the same time added massive value for larger contracts with larger firms.

What changes is the market asking you to make in your business? How clear are you on your greatness
and how to apply it to your business strategy? One client accomplished more in 6 months than in the previous 2.5 years. Another got a raise when others were being laid off. Both focused first on their greatness,
at the deepest levels, then we strategized how to implement that greatness in their companies.

Much more fun and much easier than trying to struggle through hard times by focusing on difficulties first!
I recommend it. No one in this culture knows their greatness fully, so we all underestimate what we can do!
Imagine our country if everyone knew their greatness! Imagine your business!
Need help? Give us a call. Only your greatness is the strongest foundation for success and inner peace.

Wishing you peace and prosperity.

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2009. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Secret power: No time to hide your light under a bushel basket!

2009-03-11T14:18:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

Despite huge business and real estate challenges, I am back and still strong.
How about you? Drowning in negative media and people around you?
Still strong? Running for the hills? Hunkering down or finding ways to grow your business?
Wondering-- how can I survive and strengthen my family and friends?
Scared for what you see happening in the US economy and Washington?

Amidst all this, what is the most powerful resource you have to turn things around
in your life and the lives of those you care about?

Simple: Your strengths and greatness! They are yours. They are still there. You
still have them. No one can take them from you, despite external circumstances.

The thing is--do you have any idea of what your strengths are? Other than that
list you use for your job interviews, how well do you really know your greatness?
Not well? You are not alone!

Think about this--where in our culture do you learn your greatness? Home?
School? Work? I doubt it! Our culture, as now, focuses on what is wrong,
not what is right! Yet what is right is our greatest resource! And knowing how
to identify and apply your deepest greatness for business success--where is
that taught?

In working with clients, we always start with their deepest greatness and
then fold them out into their careers or business strategy. Not only do
they love being seen for their very best, deeply, they realize that
they have under-succeeded hugely compared to what they can do
with their greatness applied! Seeing their results is so rewarding.

When I started this work decades ago, I had no idea how
powerful it was, but clients make it crystal clear the difference it makes for them.
A recent client who saw and applied her strengths more fully got a raise in a few weeks of working with me despite her company laying people off! In this economy!

So this is no time to hide your light. Find out your strengths and deepest
greatness. Turn your business and financial life around! And enjoy!
Want help? Visit www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com, or email us
at drlinne@whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

Wishing you the best of your strengths!
Dr. Linne

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2009. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Pull Out All the Stops--Use Your Best

2008-10-20T08:06:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

Right now our country stands at the brink of a huge leadership decision,
perhaps the most important of many decades. Our economy is
severely limited by an unprecedented aggregate of events. Many
do not understand the complexity of what has happened or
what must happen to put things right.

But one thing is clear. Our economic growth and repair is the
single most important key to our well being and national security.
Regardless of our political positions on other issues, we must
have a president who will get lending capital flowing, create jobs and reduce taxes.
Our best hope right now is McCain.

I am not taken in by Obama's glamour and oratory, as there are too many troubling
aspects to his past. At best, they indicate that he has extremely poor
judgment in associates and his ethics are in question. While campaigning
for change, he presents a most traditional platform and has taken
huge amounts of earmarks-pork-while McCain has taken none.
As a positive change leadership expert,this is not my idea of change.

As a professional speaker and change leadership expert, I know that motivational
speaking and leading a country are two very different skill sets.
Motivation is necessary but it takes far more than that to
recover from our current state. We need leadership experience!!

Our best hope is McCain now. He is dedicated to our country above all else
and is not at an age where he is trying to feather his political nest for the future.
And his economic policies have a much better chance of setting us right. He
has worked across the aisle for decades. And we need the balance of power
desperately. We have a democratic Congress--we need a Republican
President. It's not that I agree with everything about McCain....but
right now, he is our best hope. Make no mistake.

How about you? Are you using your best skills to promote your economic
survival and thrival during this time? What are your best strengths and
how can you use them to generate more income? Think about it. Talk
to your family and friends about it. There is always more inside of
us than we know. Time to discover and profit!!!

Wishing you the best. Keep your chin. Up. And please pray or
hold a positive vision for our nation. We need all the help we can get!

Warm regards,
Dr. Linne
"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Old Power, New Power-Which Presidential Candiate is Best?

2008-09-05T17:54:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

Being a leadership power expert can be most interesting!
Watching the Presidential candidates, I have looked carefully at both of them and how adept they
are at Old Power and New Power. Within the US, we expect collaborative process from our leaders.
President Bush did not do this and paid for it heavily.

Yet in dealing with dangerous Old Power nations with brutal dictators, our President must
be adept in using Old Power, as Old Power brutal dictators from nations or regions
with thousands of years of Old Power brutal dictators in their psychological DNA have no
concept of New Power and respect only Old Power. They laugh at sanctions and fines, and
have no clue about real collaborative New Power.

The US President must be skilled at both Old and New Power in order to protect our national
security and grow our economy, the top imperatives now.

On the Power Evolution Curve, which reflects the Power Shift from Old Power to New Power, Old Power nations are behind New Power nations on the timeline, which causes huge political problems and security risks.

Only if Old Power countries are extremely poor like N. Korea will they come around to a safer nuclear or energy stance. Wealthy dictatorships like China, Russa, Iran, etc., have no reason to collaborate. Thus the US President has to be tough enough to use Old Power as a last resort, of course, to protect our national security yet New Power collaborative enough to work together across the aisle to get things done.

If you apply this analysis, to both candidates, this is what you see:

Sen. John McCain: Clearly can use Old Power and also has worked across the aisle in collaboration, understands New Power yet can protect us. He understands the psychology of Old Power countries and how it differs from our own in the U.S., and how Old Power countries can put us at risk economically and politically because of how they operate.

Sen. Barack Obama: Understands New Power but lacks the strength of ability/willingness to use
Old Power to protect us when needed. Not tough enough and does not understand how the psychology
of Old Power countries can harm us in terms of national security and economy.

Another way to see the election!
Think about it--we are at a crossroads.
In hope and appreciation,
Dr. Linne
Leadership futurist, power expert.
"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Dr. Linne's Leadership Guides Series
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

At Last, The Positive Strenths-Based Leader Gains Acceptance

2008-05-29T21:42:00.000-07:00

Hi, Everyone,
After decades of waiting, I am hearing a few other voices that see the "what's wrong" problem-solving method as a dead end in workplace projects involving people. Even though every MBA program teaches it, I have said for over 25 years, no one wants to be the "what's wrong"!
Do you?

The positive strengths-based approach to leadership and change works so much better and faster.
When people know you look for their best not their worst, they want to engage and are open to change, because, if you are sincere, you have credibility as a leader. One client executive created two successful re-organizations when starting from disasters using my positive systems. He received 2 promotions and became a CEO.

Look around in your business: How many positive vs. negative statements do you hear per day?

I waited over a quarter of a century for researchers to support me and here it is at last: In 2006,
Univ. of Michigan researchers found that the more positive statements in a company, the more profitable the company!

No surprise! Clients find that tough situations turn around quickly and without conflict when positive approaches prevail.

Only positive systems speed you to profit while strengthening all involved.
So check out your company! What will you find?
Enjoy,
Dr. Linne

"Build on Your Best"
Giving you the power to predict, profit, & protect
Dr. Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO 480-767-1717
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Author of From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?
Co-author with Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, What You Say Is What You Get® Series:
The Secret Language of Great Business Results
Positive Quotient PQ® Questionnaire
Appreciative Quotient AQ® Questionnaire
Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, 2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Appreciation: The Secret Key to Magical Marriage
Coming soon!! Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

The Positive Profit Power of Passion

2008-02-08T08:54:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,
The bigger your goals, the bigger your challenges!
So, what keeps you going when life drags you down?
Only passion!
Just plowing through a list of daunting tasks is no way to live.
Passion keeps you connected to the "why" in your heart!
Passion gives you:
Creativity
Enthusiasm, attracting others you need
Momentum, forward motion.
Speed, moving to profits faster..
More fun!

So, what's not to like about passion?
Plug into yours and watch what happens!

Enjoy,
Dr. Linne
"Build on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Co-author, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (R) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (R) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children,
2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What the Media Say is What We Get

2008-01-23T17:06:00.000-08:00

Well, the negative press has worked. Both stock and real estate markets down badly.
How much is real? How much is fear, negative programming?
What if we heard as much good news as bad?
Where would the markets be?
I say higher!
What do you say?
DR. Linne Bourget

"Build on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.oldpowernewpower.com
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
Pioneer, strengths-based leadership, Master Intuition System
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders& Consultants
Co-author, Amazon #1Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author, positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (R) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (R) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children,
2 CD Audio by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

See our positive blog:
http://drlinnebourget.blogspot.com

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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

The Must -Do Positive Way to End 2007

2007-12-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

HI, Everyone!
How's it going? How was your 2007? I was so excited about my new business platform and the books I finished to support it. At last I was positioned right to be of greatest service and add massive value to client companies. And hey, I could finally get some of the financial rewards from being a leadership futurist 20yrs. early with my leadership work!

And then it happened. Suppliers' performance blocked us. No books were printed in time for the holiday season, when 70% of books were sold. Bummer. Major disappointment! So here I am, the founder of positive leadership, ending the year on a sad note. What could I do or say to bring inspiration. Then I remembered to tell myself what I tell clients:

We can always choose what we focus on, the good or the bad. I chose to re-focus on all of 2007 and started a list of accomplishments. And hey, there is good stuff here!

Helping clients through tough times, finishing 2 books, From Old Power to New Power - Which Leaders Will Survive? and Appreciation - The Secret Key to a Magical Marriage, and nearly finishing a major training system for corporate clients and one for real estate investors on my Master Intuition System. Making new friends who are on my positive intuitive wavelength, and only gaining 5 pounds from the stress of a tough Phoenix summer with a record # of days over 110 degrees, the death of a friend and the book crisis. And I kept myself swing dancing even when I did not feel like going, which brings me joy. I only missed two dances when I was in town, all year! And much more.....

So, how about you? Only your greatness is the best foundation for your success. Don't even think of setting your 2008 goals until you have listed all of your accomplishments for 2007. Give yourself credit for the good stuff you do and celebrate it. Throw an accomplishments party and everyone gets to say what they accomplished for 2007.
And no long faces. Everything counts.

Now, this is a great way to start a new year, eh? Go for it and enjoy!

Wishing you the best of the Winter Solstice, Hanukah, Christmas, and Kwanza, or any other holiday you observe.

May peace, joy and prosperity be your constant friends in 2008
Warmly,
Dr. Linne Bourget
www.oldpowernewpower.com
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What You Say Is What You Get(R) - Have You Appreciated Them In Time?

2007-11-20T08:26:00.000-08:00

Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

I know it has been awhile. Finishing 2 new books at once captured my time. Now they are going to print. What books captured me so completely? See details at the end of this post.

Meanwhile, my sad personal news is a wake –up call for all of you! Heed these powerful lessons from my friend's passing! This post could save your life!

A dear business friend died of a sudden heart attack. A huge and sad loss. He was always positive and encouraging and I will miss him!

Powerful lessons for all of you from his passing:

1. I am so glad I appreciated him while I could. There is nothing I wished I had said and did not. In my grief, shock and loss, I am grateful for that, and grateful I had the skills to let him know often how much I appreciated who he was, what he did, and his support.

Another friend I spoke with shared his anguish when a friend of his died and he had not spoken his words of appreciation. Years later, it still hurt him! He said how important it was to know that I had said my apprecations and how important a lesson it was for everyone, and wanted to make sure I share it with everyone. How about you? Do you keep current with your appreciation?

2. Be sure you appreciate people in your life while you can. Learn the skills to give great appreciation so you can express what you really mean. Don’t leave it unspoken and be sorry later!

4. When his doctor told him weeks ago that he needed a procedure after a stress test, he refused. I did not know about it or would have pushed him to get treatment. All of you men reading this, and type A women, go get your heart checked, have a stress test and listen to your doctor! My friend had a wife, family, friends, and little granddaughter who needed him. He was on the brink of doing the biggest work of his life! And he was only 60! Learn from his mistake!

5. What do you need to say and do right now in your life to be fulfilled? Do it, don’t wait. Life is precious, and your time is your life.

Holiday– Thanksgiving William James said, “The deepest craving in human nature is to be appreciated.”

My Thanksgiving ritual since the middle 1970s has always been to go around the table and give thanks for what you appreciate in your life.

This year, appreciate your friends and family as individuals for what they bring to your life also. Don’t wait and be sorry later. What You Say Is What You Say(R)

Reflections and the Holidays - Gifts to Bring Appreciation into Your LIfe

Losing my very positive friend makes me even more grateful to be an appreciation expert and strengths-based leadership consultant and bring appreciation-based tools and systems to friends and clients. It also makes me very sad to lose one of my most appreciative friends. They are a special and rare treasure.

How well do you appreciate those at work and at home? How positive and skilled are you as an appreciator? Make sure you appreciate those at work and at home, before it is too late! My friend enjoyed and believed in my work on appreciation. One of his last newsletters was on the power of appreciation.

Appreciation gifts to transform your relationships at work and at home! Note: A percentage of proceeds from these gifts will be given to my friend’s chosen charity.

1. What You Say Is What You Get®: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, by Dr. Linne Bourget, endorsed by Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul^® and Co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 27 leadership books, including On Becoming a Leader, Organizing Genius and Geeks and Geezers, consultant to U.S. Presidents, United Nations and Fortune 500 CEOs.
One of my two new books:

2. Appreciation – The Secret Key to a Magical Marriage-What You Say Is What You Get®

What every husband and wife needs to know about your spouses secret language of love. If you want to know how to get better appreciation in less time with more fun, read her book. It will wow your soul!” Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, and co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Cracking the Millionaire Code

3. What You Say Is What You Get®: Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages, 2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book to strengthen your family, endorsed by Pat Williams, Sr. Vice President, Orlando Magic Basketball Team, father of 19 children (14 adopted), and Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series®!

Out of respect for your time, these are all very user-friendly, fast to read, easy to hear, practical and powerful, and based on 25 years of client feedback. Visit http://www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com and click on services and products. Sign up there for our "free" positive leadership newsletter, two power-packed pages once a month!

My friend was excited and encouraging that I had just finished this new leadership book. It reflects his positive business philosophy as well as mine. The other new book!

1. From Old Power to New Power – Which Leaders Will Survive?

What every leader needs to know about the Power Shift!!

“Dr. Linne Bourget is the female personification of the Dalai Lama. She has remarkable talents, gifts and attributes which uniquely position her to effect world change. I have had the opportunity to meet many famous and powerful “World Leaders” over the course of my life, and while that is always a special opportunity, it is even more rare to meet a true “World Changer”. Dr. Linne, with her work on leadership power, has the capacity to effect world change.” Bill Bartmann, Author, Billionaire Secrets to Success, Billionaire Business Coach

Available at http://www.oldpowernewpower.com on the services and products page.

Wishing all of you the best of appreciation-filled holidays. Much more important than the food!

Dr. Linne Bourget

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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

How Appreciation Opens New Worlds to You

2007-07-12T20:30:00.000-07:00

HI Everyone,

Imagine my surprise! A new experience!

After over 25 years of working with appreciation, I met someone who gave the highest level of appreciation of anyone I have known. He saw and appreciated me at a level beyond what anyone else had ever seen and verbalized.

And this is only one of two people I have met who are so appreciative without my training them! They came into my life this way! Astonishing!

Usually I have to coach and train to get people to give me appreciation. Hey, the expert needs some too!

So, what do you think happened?

I found that being seen and appreciated so thoroughly, so deeply, opened up new possibilities
in my work, my thinking, and my vision for myself and my work. Of course, I am used to
doing this for clients. But no one had ever done that for me.

It made me wonder: How had I survived all these years without this level of appreciation? What could I have achieved had I had this? What was I tolerating that had to go? Within
a few weeks I realized I would even have to move to a different city!

Ask yourself these questions!!

Do you have anyone in your life who sees you for your highest and best and consistenltly appreciates you from that place? If not, why not?

And how well do you do that for your nearest and dearest, at work and at home?

So, if you are feeling like your lifespace is not big enough for your spirit, find someone
who is strong enough and cares enough to see and appreciate your best. And someone
you want to do this for.

Believe me, your life will change. Keep a journal to track the changes.

Warning: do not do this if you want the same life you have now.

But then again, no appreciation, no glory!!

For help with the how-to's, the do's and don'ts, visit us at whatyousayiswhatyouget.com, which we are renovating. New appreciation books are on the way!!

Wishing you an appreciated and appreciative life!!

Dr. Linne

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer, positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Amazon Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What You Don't Say Is What You Don't Get

2007-06-04T20:17:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

Recently I was startled and upset to be on the receiving end of silence when I needed to be informed. We all know that silence can wreak havoc. No news is not good news!

This was silence of two types, and each type had a profound effect.

One type was about schedules and upcoming meetings. Without that I could not plan my schedule or my assistants' schedules most effectively. When the meeting time was moved back weeks at the last minute, it was tough. You know about that. We have all been there. I needed more notice.

But wait, there's more. (Ok, I know, but I couldn't resist.)

The second type of silence was the lack of opportunity to be included in the process,
to give support, to understand, to be a part of what was happening, to make it easier
for both of us, perhaps to create a backup plan.

Had I known the issues and concerns underneath the last minute delay,
I would not have been upset. Furthermore, when I heard the reason for the silence,
I was amazed. Never would have guessed it! When I knew, I could clear it up
immediately and clearly.

Lessons to the wise:

1. Plan communications so you avoid costly upsetting silences. An ounce of prevention....
2. Find out the reason underneath the silence.
3. Talk it over in a positive way, making sure you ask for the positives you need.
4. Don't complain about what you did not get. State what happened and describe the impact on you and your business.
5. Appreciate the other person's views and good will efforts to do the right things.
6. Use this opportunity to learn how to better support the other person, ask what you can do better as well ask asking for what you need. Make it a 2-way street for improving communications.
7. Appreciate the other person for being willing to communicate about the issue.

Bottom Line
It's the information age. Remember information about the process is important to be shared as well as the business information. A more open process gives you better results.
What You Say Is What You Get(R)!

Wishing you a more enjoyable communication process and great results!

Dr. Linne

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Amazon Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders! and a new book
on the Future of Leadership Power!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

The Negative Positive Group??? How can this be?

2007-05-07T17:16:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone - Can you believe this positive group shock story?

This week I experienced something that hauled me back to basics with a shock, to the very start of my career.

There I was, sitting in a group that teaches only positive principles. But for reasons completely beyond me, several group members showed outright hostility and condemnation! My solar plexus was in pain! I tried to speak but was cut off three times as everyone started to interrupt. It took hours to get this upset out of my body!

When I asked my intuition what to do, it told me to say nothing and wait! Since I teach intuition to executives, I know to listen! Arrgghh! Tough for me as Dr. Positive Leadership who wants to make things better and easier.

But as the drama unfolded, it turned out that the underlying cause was lack of appreciation! The most hostile-seeming person was very upset about trying to do something new, saying I, Dr. Linne, was the only one who had given any appreciation, but no one else. (Obviously, this is not a group I lead.)

As I watched the negativity ricochet around the room in this usually calm group,
I was thunderstruck to see the effects of no strengths-based positive feedback! This was right out of my dissertation on appreciation - over 25 years ago!!

It made me wonder:

What new roles or projects are not started due to lack of appreciation?
If you could measure that as a leader, in your company, what is it really costing your company?
How many employees and teams give up before profitability due to lack of appreciation?
What does that cost your company!

OK, then, time to go back to basics. Remember to give positive feedback early and often, so to speak, and know what you are doing. This takes good skills!

If you need to develop your skills, visit us at whatyousayiswhatyouget.com and check out my positive leadership book.
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, Wheel 2 has all the info on positive feedback,
and What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire

The website is being re-done and upgraded but the products are right there on the front page for your convenience, per our client requests.

You can make a powerful positive difference, if you know what you are doing!

Make it a great day!
Dr. Linne

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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

The Real Power of the Positive is Power

2007-03-12T17:50:00.000-07:00

HI, Everyone,

A conversation with a client working on developing more power sparked this message.

Let's face it. What is really underneath the power of a positive leadership language system?
Simple. It's power. Positive power. And it is huge, perhaps the greatest force in the
Universe. We talk about influence. We talk about manifesting positive outcomes.

Now everyone is talking about The Secret, which captures the power of positive thinking and feeling. It's all about power. We all have a huge amount of it available, whether we feel like that or not at any moment in time.

Power is like money or energy. It's not negative, it's just what we do with it that makes it positive or negative. Time to re-own this word, this concept, and use it fully rather than backing away from the idea of power and seeing it with skepticism.

Power is a gift and a responsibility. It is a cousin to free will and the responsibility for
choices. It is also a huge gift which each of us can use for good.

Did you know that every word you say literally has an energy signature? How positive is the energy you are sending out with your words?

How high is your Positive Quotient(PQ)R?
How high is your Appreciative Quotient(AQ)R?

Spring is a time of new life and new beginnings. Make a commitment to yourself
to use more positive words at work and at home. Then watch the positive results.
And enjoy!

See below for resources with a strong track record, tried and true for you.

Wishing you all the best words and lives
Dr. Linne Bourget
"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Amazon Bestseller, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages, 2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Leaders!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

How Well do you Give Appreciation, Positive Feedback, a Leadership Key?

2007-02-07T11:14:00.000-08:00

To Build on the Best in your business, realize that positive leadership is not just about being nice.

Powerful positive feedback does not just make people feel good, but just as important, it teaches them their strengths. Since we have an appreciation-starved culture, few of us have a clue about our strengths, and we can only learn that from each other with highly skilled specific positive feedback. The less we know our strengths, the less we use them, and then the less successful we are. The Leader's job is to teach people their strengths!

Remember:

The deepest craving in human nature is to be appreciated.” William James

February means Valentine’s Day -

You know to tell your loved ones that you love them. This year, add something special to make your “I love you” even more powerful: Tell them specifically one thing you deeply appreciate about them. And this specific appreciation you can also give to your esteemed colleagues and clients, to help teach them their strengths. And while you are at it, what are your strengths? How many can you write down? Do this, and appreciate yourself out loud for each one. A positive caring challenge!

Remember to enjoy the process. This can strengthen your spirit and results!

Wishing you the best of success!
Dr. Linne Bourget

From the positive leadership book, What You Say Is What You Get™: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, by Dr. Linne Bourget, endorsed by Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul^® and Co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 27 leadership books, including On Becoming a Leader, Organizing Genius and Geeks and Geezers, consultant to four U.S. Presidents, the United Nations and Fortune 500 CEOs.

You can buy this very user-friendly, fast to read, practical powerful book, based on 20+ years of client feedback, at http://www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

What Do You Really Want for 2007?

2007-01-12T13:25:00.000-08:00

Set your goals, set your goals! It comes at you from every direction! But stop and think.

Do your goals really reflect what you want or just what you think you should want because everyone around you does?

Go over your list of goals and stop at every one. In your heart of hearts, is this what
you really want? Why do you want this?

Sit down and have a meeting with yourself. You deserve to start the year on a great track!

Set your goals from your heart, not just your head! You will have a lot more fun
reaching your goals and they will mean so much more to you when you get there!

Enjoy!

Wishing you the best of joy and success!

Dr. Linne Bourget

Author, What You Say Is What You Get™: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, by Dr. Linne Bourget, endorsed by Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul^® and Co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 27 leadership books, including On Becoming a Leader, Organizing Genius and Geeks and Geezers, consultant to four U.S. Presidents, the United Nations and Fortune 500 CEOs. You can buy this very user-friendly, fast to read, practical powerful book, based on 20+ years of client feedback, at http://www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

New at whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

What You Say Is What You Get™: Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages, 2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book to strengthen your family, endorsed by Pat Williams, Sr. Vice President, Orlando Magic Basketball Team, father of 19 children (14 adopted), and Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series®!

Coming Soon: What You Say Is What You Get™: Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Your Marriage; tried and true Master Intuition System for Business Success, training manual w/ 25 years of examples from clients’ and my businesses. AND, new book on the future of leadership power, an eye-opener!

Don't Even Think of Setting 2007 Goals Until You Read This

2006-12-13T09:13:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

Ok, I admit it. I do believe in goal setting. Yes, like all the experts say, it is incredibly powerful in focusing us and keeping us on track. All of that is true.

Yet at the same time, the end of the year can easily bring disappointment if you have not achieved your goals. You just don't feel like what you have done is enough. This means you carry into the next year less joy and confidence when setting your new goals, and are thus less likely to keep moving forward when the going gets tough. Still,

"When the going gets tough, the tough get growing."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

How do you need to grow to have a more positive relationship with yourself to better reach your goals?

There is One Simple Thing - Be Your Own Positive Leader. At the end of each year, or day, or month, stand back and FIRST appreciate yourself for all that you did accomplish, including all those things not on the goal list. Give yourself credit! You earned it!

Then you will feel more confidence as you set goals for the new year.

Enjoy and Happiest of Holidays to you,
Dr. Linne
Dr. Linne Bourget
whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

PS Received a strong intuition to finish my little book on Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for
Wives and Husbands - it is almost done and will be available for Valentine's. The audio book for parents and kids is finished. From Dr. Linne as a Corporate Futurist: New book coming in 07 on the future of leadership power and the home study system for the Master Intuition System for Outrageous Business Success.
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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

The Gift of Appreciation at Thanksgiving

2006-11-21T08:36:00.000-08:00

Dear IC Family,
Thirty years ago, I started a tradition. After dinner and before Thanksgiving dessert, when we definitely needed a break, I asked my guests, about 25 or so, to go around the table and say what they were grateful for. This was based on my Ph.D. dissertation work on appreciation, the first in the field. There was not a dry eye in the house by the end of the sharing.

For dinner with your family and friends, take the next step and add specific appreciations for each person, what you appreciate about them, who they are and what they do. The results will amaze you. After all these years, they still amaze me. You might need tissues. Enjoy!

Love and blessings for Thanksgiving,
Dr. Linne
aka Dr. Appreciation

We have a 2 hour audio book What You Say Is What You Get: Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children, endorsed by Pat Williams, Sr. VP of Orlando Magic Basketball and father of 19 children, 14 are adopted!! Create a stronger bond with your children, increase their self esteem and help protect them from the risks they face daily!
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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Using vision and values for positive protection

2006-10-07T17:02:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,

What do you do when your company has a crisis?

It is tempting to focus on what's wrong but only doing so creates a negative wave.

Repeating your vision and values reminds everyone of your positive purpose, balancing the negative and uplifting everyone.

The next time you have a crisis, include your positive vision and values in every message.

Notice the difference. Email me with the results. I want to know.

Peace and prosperity to you all,
Dr. Linne Bourget

drlinne@whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Would you believe the power of this particular type of phrase?

2006-09-04T14:50:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Would you believe the power of this particular type of phrase to make or break your business results?

In any company, more trust and less fear make for greater profits, productivity and progress.

Most leaders and employees know this. Yet sometimes small habits that are just part of the

woodwork can create roadblocks to your company’s and your success. In an amazing

intuitive journey 20 years ago, I found that eliminating violent language reduced fear,

created much more trust, and more work got done faster! My clients and I had not even

realized the fear and difficulty we were causing by using violent words and images. It was just habit. The insight to look at this was purely intuitive, and it turned out to have very powerful positive results for my clients.

Who knew?

This week I heard several very violent phrases from very positive aware businesspeople. They did not mean to create fear and block results. Since 9/11 more people are becoming aware of taking the violence out of their language, but these business people simply were not aware of the power of these phrases:

“Beat you down”, “Beat me down.”, “Better than a sharp stick in the eye”. I was horrified.

Then I realized that they just did not know. But now you know better! Please remove violent phrases from your language and notice what happens in your conversations at work. Then at home. Then tell people what you are doing and ask them to join you. Track what changes in those relationships.

Please email me and let me know the results. I want to hear!

Wishing you the best of prosperity and peace.

Apprciatvely,

Dr. Linne Bourget

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the new positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Balancing Negative With Positive Factors

2006-08-12T15:29:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

This week, thankfully another heinous terrorist attack was thwarted. Truly scary! As the negative factors in the world seem to take up more and more space in our lives, how can we stay positive and lead positive peacful prosperous lives?

Sound like a tough question? Well, in a way it is, and in a way it isn't. Psycholoically it is a very tough and complicated question. So, let's move to another field to find an easier answer. Let's do the math. Math? For this issue? You bet!

Every time you find a negative factor coming into your life, stop and think how high you rate it on a 1-10 scale. With 1 = low and 10 = high. Let's say your example is a solid 7 negative factor. Your project didn't go very well at work this week and you are worried about finishing it on time.

How does math figure in here? What can you do for yourself or bring into your life that is positive enough to rank as a 7 on the 1-10 scale, to balance the problem ranked 7? Even better, what positive factor can you bring in that would be an 8 or a 9, so you come out ahead? Maybe it's having a wonderful time with your spouse, or a great weekend roadtrip to some place new. Or a wonderful positive movie. Whatever creates a high positive number for you is what works.

So the next time a negative factor drops in on you, don't let it overwhelm you, just balance it with a great positive factor as soon as possible and keep on with your positive journey.

Email me at drlinne@whatyousayiswhatyouget.com with your creative positive balancing stories. I would love to hear them.

Wishing you the best life has to offer.

Dr. Linne Bourget
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

July 4th - Beyond Independence

2006-07-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

I spent the Fourth of July weekend dancing with friends at a huge dance convention. On Saturday night when the Air Force color guard members presented the flag and two ladies sang the national anthem, I was again reminded that what we have is far more than independence. We have freedom.

One of the MCs, usually a real cut up became uncharacteristically serious and aske for a moment of silence to support our present and past troops who ensure that we have the freedom to dance or picnick or golf as we choose.

I also gave thanks for our interdependence based on our freedom of assembly which helps us realize daily that we depend on each other for the good things in our lives. The global marketplace is carrying us on swift wings from independence to interdependence. No one and no one country is isolated any more.

More challanges? You bet! At the same time, we have more opportunities for growth, for excellence, for becoming better.

"Freedom is not a liscence to be our worst, but a call to be our best."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

What are the good things you have in your life that come from freedom and interdependence? Make a list of these and be appreciative for having them.

Make it a peacful and prosperous month.

Dr. Linne Bourget

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the new positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

The Rudeness Revolution - Too Expensive!

2006-06-13T12:36:00.000-07:00

It seems that everyday a new study comes across my screen about rudeness in the workplace, and how employees lose huge amounts of worktime and consider leaving their jobs because co-workers are rude to them. Have you thought about this in your company?

If we put a dollar amount on how much money is lost by companies due to negative behavior, we would be shocked! Yet, most leaders have little idea of what employees deal with on a day to day basis from other employees, and they allow employees to be negative to each other because they do not realize how often it happens or how much it cost them in suffering and lost productivity.

For leaders, the lesson is:

"What you allow is what you get"
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

For employees, the lesson is:

"Without the positive, you have only half the truth - the worst half"
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Bottom line: Work should be fun and can be fun, not a place of suffering. It takes everyone pulling together to create a positive environment. Leaders should insist on and model positive communications and employees should support that with their behavior.

The costs of the negative and the benefits of the positive are dramatically illustrated in the stories in my book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, to give you practical tools for creating and sustaining a positive culture for a better life at work. Remember, What You Say Is What You Get(R).

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the new positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Questions, Questions and More Questions - But How Well Do Yours Work?

2006-05-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

In your meetings, what kinds of questions does everyone ask? Are the questions focused on problems, on what's wrong and needs to be fixed? What does this do to morale? The traditional management problem-solving method, taught in every business school and used in every company for decades, starts with analyzing what's wrong. Picking solutions and implementing them comes next.

The problem with this approach to change is that no one wants to be the what's wrong. This sets up blame, conflict, avoiding problems and blocking needed change. Just imagine what this costs your company in lost revenue, higher costs and needless suffering! Yet this painful costly tradition runs rampant through our companies every day!

But take heart. There is an alternative. In the 1980s I developed a planning approach to change which focuses on what is right, on the best strengths of each team or company. Imagine asking questions to focus on what is right! That is the basis of the planning system. The most powerful question of all of those positive questions is this:

What would it look like if it were completely successful? This question enters in at the earliest point in the discussion, not at the end!

Every team who worked with this system and answered this question got excited about planning and problem-solving instead of avoiding them. They saw that they had a positive basis and vision, and it guided them safely through the choppy waters of planning and implementing change. Problems were less threatening, so there was a lot less duck and cover behavior.

Try using this question once in every meeting this week and see what happens. Email me at drlinne@whatyousayiswhatyouget.com and let me know what changes when you ask this powerful question. And enjoy the results!

This section is adapted from my fast, easy-to-read positive change leadership book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, available at whatyousayiswhatyouget.com on the top of the home page.

Enjoy this positive powerful tool to make your business life easier your results better!
Wishing you the best of success.

Dr. Linne
"Building Success on Your Best"Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLCInstitute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the positive leadership book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire, What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire, What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages, 2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation

"Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Visit our positive new blog:http://drlinnebourget.blogspot.com

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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Protecting the Positive - It's Not Automatic

2006-04-05T12:44:00.000-07:00

Many business people over the years have said to me how important it is to have a positive attitude, that if you have a positive attitude, everything else will be fine. In working with positive leadership strategies for 25 years, I have discovered from clients that having a positive culture in your business takes a whole lot more than a positive attitude. In other words, a positive attitude is necessary but not sufficient.

In my book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, I present the Engine and Four Wheels model of positive leadership. The Enging is a positive attitude or leadership philosophy. However, without the Four Wheels, your car goes no where, regardless of how powerful the Engine is. Wheels 1, 2, and 3 desribe the positive leadership system needed to keep your business on track.

Wheel 4 describes the negative things you must stop your eomployees from doing, and prevent them from doing again, in order to protect the positive culture you have so carefully constructed. One of those is negative gossip. This is so damaging that it can un-do all of your good work immediately by bringing in an insedious negative element into your positive culture.

One time, when I began work on a project for a troubled team, the first thing I did was to request that they stop gossiping outside their team about how bad it was. Fortunately, they agreed and within a few months, we created a dramatic positive turnaround. As long as they gossiped, they continued to upset themselves, reinforce how terrible things were, and worsen their image with others outside of the team. Had they not stopped gossiping, their successful turnaround would have been blocked.

Benefits of no negative gossip: This team discovered that when they stopped gossiping, their morale, communication, results, and image were free to improve dramatically.

How often do you hear negative gossip in your organization?
What steps do you take to prevent or stop it?

If you allow gossip, you are sending the message that it is okay to gossip in your company. Remember, what you allow is what you get. Your company deserves the best. Take a stand for it!

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne Bourget

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the new positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages, 2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

The Power of Appreciating Differences

2006-03-29T13:42:00.000-08:00

Hi!

Just got back from a week in Kona with Mark Victor Hansen's (Chicken Soup Books) and Robert G. Allen's (No Money Down author) Inner Circle meeting. This was my first junket to Hawaii and the culture was different from anything I had seen. The landscape, the food, the language, the energy, the climate - everything was different. I realized when I heard other people instantly critisize something different from what they were used to, that my first response is neutral or positive.

I noticed the stark black volcanic land all around us, but my first response was to be interested rather than to judge. I deeply appreciate my parents, who taught us, as we traveled often and lived in other countries, to respect and appreciate different cultures. This has served me well in my business as I gravitate towards clients who have unusual or unique characteritics and corporate cultures and they enjoy being appreciated.

Differences keep my spirit alive. As the world gets smaller and smaller, cultural differences become a larger part of our every day lives. The more we celebrate and appreciate them, the more succesful we will be.

Today, seek out differences and appreciate them. With practice, you can develop this as a mindset and business skill.

Enjoy!

Dr. Linne Bourget

www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Research Catches Up with Reality

2006-03-08T11:24:00.000-08:00

Twenty-five years ago, when I began my work on positive leadership communications, skeptics challenged me on my assertion that for every negative statement there should be at least four positive statements, the usual 80/20 rule. In truth, since there was no research at this at the time and my Ph.D dissertation on positive feedback was the first of its kind, I adopted the 80/20 rule simply because it was a formula my clients already knew. Where were the researchers when I needed them?

As they were not accustomed to giving or receiving and positive feedback at all, they considered my 80/20 request radical indeed, another instance in which I was too early, a natural futurist. Now, a quarter-century later, researchers at the University of Michigan have found that companies with 50/50 ratio of positive to negative statement have negative performance and have found that it takes a ratio of 90/10 positive statements in order to receive excellent results! At last, I have support from the researchers. I was too conservative! Now I can tell my clients about the 90% rule and actually have research to back me up.

In my field, the academics are usually behind the practitioners and when the researchers catch up to us. How excellent is your company in its positive communication habits? In every meeting you attend, what percentage of the statements are positive versus negative? What percentage of your statements are positive versus negative? How close are you to the 90% excellence line? For one week, count your positive versus negative statements. How are you doing?

If you need help and want the input of a professional expert whose passion this has been for 25 years, consult the book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, email us at: www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com, or call us for assistance at 480-767-1717.

Wishing you every success and happy counting! Remember, What You Say Is What You Get(R).

"Build Your Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the new positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

The Missing Piece, The Secret Key To Our New Years Goals and Resolutions

2006-01-11T18:31:00.000-08:00

For the first weeks of a new year it seems like every email, workshop and teleclass is focusing on setting your goals. Everyone has a list of the five or seven or ten things you must do in order to achieve your goals.

I have a high regard for goals, and they have a central place in my life. But why do our goals fade away from us so soon after we set them? Why do they dissapear under the mountain of everyday tasks and pressures?

The one thing, central to all of my work that I do not hear from all those goals experts is the most important foundation for setting, working toward, and achieving goals. That is giving yourself profound respect and appreciation for what you have achieved in the previous year.

No this is not a quick pat on the back. This is sitting down in a meeting with yourself and writting down your achievements for the last year, all of them. Large and small. Then go down the list and appreaciate yourself out loud using your name for achieving all of those. Then make a list of the strengths you used in achieving those goals.

Now you have a foundation for setting new goals. Without giving yourself respect and appreciation, a set of goals just becomes another "should" rather than a source of joy and inspiration. You deserve better.

One of my students read his strengths list every morning and every evening for one week. The next week he came back so excitied he could hardly sit still in his chair, bursting at the seams to tell the entire class. He had gotten twice as much done that week as usual and made much more money. Plus he was having a blast.

Create your appreciation foundation. It gives you a solid platform, the sense of your own strengths from which you can step up happily to more success from your new goals.

I wish you a peaceful profitable new year!

Dr. Linne Bourget

"Building Success on Your Best"
Linne Bourget M.A. M.B.A. Ph. D
www.whatyousayiswhatyouget.com
National pioneer in positive leadership & change
Founder/CEO ITLC
Institute for Transformation Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
Co-author, Bestselling book, Wake Up, Live the Life You Love - Finding Personal Freedom
Author of the new positive leadership book,
What You Say Is What You Get(R) The Secret Language of Great Business Results
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Positive Quotient PQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ (TM) Questionnaire
What You Say Is What You Get(R): Secrets of Powerful Appreciation for Parents and Children of All Ages,
2 Hour 2 CD Audio Book by "Dr. Appreciation"
Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Leaders! What You Say Is What You Get(R): Powerful Intuition for Positive Leaders
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

What Is Your End of Year Greatness Review?

2005-12-16T12:25:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

This time of the year everyone starts setting goals for the New Year, which is always a worthy endeavor. Yet a crucial step in that process is usally ignored or omitted. How can we have any energy for our new goals if we have not given ourselves any credit for what we have achieved this year?

I challenge you to take responsibility for your own greatness and to make a list of what you have accomplished this year. What are you most proud of? This could be:

Relationships
Finances
Health
Vacations
Professional Achievments
Helping Others
Charitable Work
Spiritual Progress
Or any aspect of your life important to you.

Here's the important thing: Appreciate yourself and give yourself full credit for what you have achieved this year, before rushing headlong into the new year. Standing on this appreciation platform will give you far greater strength to tackle what is before you in the new year. Enjoy!

Best wishes and blessings for the happiest of holidays!

Coming soon!! Dr. Linne's Power Course on Intuition for Business Success!
"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
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Create An Appreciative Thanksgiving - The Deepest Craving

2005-11-17T11:00:00.000-08:00

Every year my favorite part of Thanksgiving is to go around the table after dinner and before dessert, when everyone needs a breather, and have everyone appreciate each other, out loud, in words! I started this 25 years ago when I was doing my Ph.D dissertation on appreciation. Although the academics thought I was nuts, "real people" were inspired by my work.

This Thanksgiving appreciation time transforms groups instantly by touching their hearts, saying and hearing words of appreciation. Take every opportunity to tell people you appreciate them, for we never know how long they will be with us.

Recently, a younger dear friend and colleague passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. As I grieve his loss, I have enormous sorrow but no guilt as I had told him all along what I appreciate about him. Be appreciation-wise, keep current by saying the appreciation in your heart at the time. Don't wait.

Appreciate everything good in your life this holiday season. Whatever you appreciate expands.

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

Copyright 2005-2008. All Rights Reserved.
Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

How well do you receive appreciation?

2005-11-04T12:56:00.000-08:00

Recently, I was in a meeting where a person was called up by surprise to receive an award. His first response was "uh-oh". He meant it in a wearily negative way rather than in a funny or happy way. This made me very sad and reminded me of many times when I have seen the same dynamic in professional business groups.

Typically, when people find out they are about to receive awards or verbal recognition, they say, "uh-oh" instead of "great". What has happened in our culture to condition people so powerfully to respond with a negative when they know they are going to receive something very positive? Is it that we are not supposed to enjoy receiving appreciation? Is it that there is an epidemic of low self-esteem and people feel as though they don't deserve recognition and awards?

Considering that, as William James says, "The deepest craving in human nature is to be appreciated", what does that say about how effectively we give and receive appreciation in our culture? Without an everyday language of appreciation running rampant though our days at work and at home, how can we ever achieve self-esteem in large numbers? Only knowing our best gives us self-esteem and if we are not receiving appreciation effectively, we are not learning about our best.

Next time someone gives you appreciation or an award, make it your personal goal to enjoy it and to learn about your best, your strengths and skills. The more you know about your best, the stronger you will be professionally and personally, at work and at home. You deserve the best!

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

Your Words Make or Break Your Success

2005-10-13T14:04:00.000-07:00

Hi! I'm Dr. Linne Bourget. How many times have you lost a customer or a sale by using words that put a wall between you and your customers or employees? My life mission is to provide systems and tools that make you the first choice to work with!! If you were Superman, you coulds hear me walking around my office trying out the most positive ways to discuss business so that my clients have the best advantage. Every word has enormous power--how powerful are yours?

One powerful free tip: Omitting certain everyday negative habits can transform your business relationships and income. One of these is the zinger, the put down cloaked as a joke. I hear these every day. These cause huge damage but since they are a "joke" people rarely complain. They just go away. Drop zingers and watch what changes in your meetings and your business. This tip is from my positive leadership book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results, at whatyousayiswhatyouget.com

A word is not a word is not a word

2005-10-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Do you know that every word you speak actually has an energy signature you are sending out to the world?
What effects do your words have?
What do you leave in your verbal wake?
Do you have anyone in your life who will tell you?

Most of us do not realize on a moment to moment basis what energy our words leave behind, and what others are likely to do or not do as a result of our words. The research from Dr. Emoto of Japan, featured in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?", makes it clear that our words actually affect the structure of water. Positive words (love, gratitude) produce a beautiful crystalline structure, whereas negative words (you fool) produce brown muddy water where the structure has broken down completely. Remember that our bodies are over 70% water. Your words literally impact your own health and that of everyone who hears them. For health and for great business results, choose positive words! You will live longer, be healthier, and have more success! Make it a great day!

Dr. Linne Bourget

"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

A word is not a word is not a word

2005-10-13T13:50:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

Every word you say makes or breaks your success! How much money is your leadership style costing you? Take heart! Our language system has helped thousands of clients build better results with this leadership skill. So can you! I created this system and clients' feedback honed it to a high shine. At whatyousayiswhatyouget.com, Dr. Linne’s books, positive leadership seminars, consulting, and executive coaching give you proven, easy rubber-meets-the-road tools for faster, better, easier results.

Every word you speak has great power - is the the type of power you want?

2005-08-27T14:27:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,
Just back from a nice cool vacation in Seattle and am dragging in the AZ heat. But soon it will be lovely.

Do you know how powerfully your words affect others and your business results? One of the most powerful examples in recent memory demonstrates this:

I recently met a mortgage banker from a large corporation, a very bright, positive, fun person. We met at a business event and as we had interests in common, had a sandwich afterward. During that conversation, he asked me how old I was, already a major no-no. When I said I don't discuss age, he replied dramatically, "I can find out on the computer." This raised not one but two red flags. 1. Would he misuse his professional position to spy on me against my wishes? 2. What was going on psychologically that he would threaten this and be this rude?

As my world is all about collaborative rather than unilateral power, he did two things very quickly.
1. As I was not certain about his ethics, I could not risk my reputation and refer business to him even though I know many people doing real estate transactions and he is very creative in solving customer problems. This cost him money.
2. He totally took himself out of the running for a dating relationship, which he clearly wanted. This was a blessing for me, as I was protected, although of course disappointed, from getting hurt further down the road. Anyone who would make such a threat right off the bat is nowhere near the level of strength I have and need in a husband.

How about you? What effect do your words have? How willing are people to do business with you when they meet you?

If you have stories of how positive words have brought you more business success, please post them below!

For over 20 years I have worked with client leaders on this issue and now the Master Positive Leadership Language System is available to you for only $19.95 in my book, What You Say Is What You Get(R): The Secret Language of Great Business Results. Visit us at whatyousayiswhatyouget.com and find out more!

Wishing you words of success and happiness!

Warmly,
Dr. Linne

The deepest human craving

2005-07-06T17:59:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends, "The deepest craving in human nature is to be appreciated." - William James

Are you receiving enough appreciation to know your own greatness?
Are you giving appreciation effectively?

In my pre-dissertation research, hundreds of people told me that they were not receiving nearly enough appreciation, yet they were hesitant to be the first one to start giving appreciation. I called this "the silence cycle", and my dissertation was the first to compare different forms of positive feedback to see what was more effective.

Over the years of working with clients, I learned that it takes about a dozen powerful guidelines to do a really great credible, meaningful job of delivering positive feedback. The two I emphasized in my dissertation were showing enthusiasm and being specific. Both have turned out to be extremely powerful requirements for effective appreciation.

How specific is your positive feedback?
How well do you show enthusiasm when giving it?

Being aware of these two skills can help you create better relationships at work and at home.

Make it an appreciative day!

Appreciatively,

Dr. Linne

"The greatest challenge is taking complete responsibility for your own greatness."
Dr. Linne's Positive Power Quote

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