Visionary Leader Intensive
January 4-7, 2008 - Corte Madera, CA
If you have a great vision and are committed to bringing it to the world, to your team or organization, this program is for you. Spend 4 days immersed with fellow visionaries, learning from masters.
Note: Dream University® courses are kept small so you can have an intimate and interactive experience with these masterful teachers. Space is very limited.
Speakers
Create like Leonardo and Innovate like Edison
Michael J. Gelb, is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. For 25 years he has lead seminars for organizations such as Nike, Merck, IBM, Microsoft, and DuPont. A retired professional juggler who once performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, Gelb created the Juggling Metaphor Method. A passionate student of the Renaissance and the nature of genius, he ignited the current fascination with all things da Vinci with his How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and Training Magazine have all featured Gelb's work and he has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN and the BBC. His newest book, Innovate Like Edison will be out in the fall of 2007.
What if you could call on history's greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, to be your personal mentor in cultivating your creativity? Leonardo invented the parachute before anyone could fly! Imagine what you can accomplish with that kind of thinking. This dynamic, highly-interactive program brings da Vinci's genius to life setting the stage for an introduction to seven principles for thinking "a la Leonardo."
The da Vinci principles are:
- Curiosita' - An insatiable quest for knowledge and continuous improvement
- Dimostrazione - Learning from experience
- Sensazione - Sharpening the senses
- Sfumato - Managing ambiguity and change
- Arte/Scienza - Whole-brain thinking
- Corporalita' - Body-mind fitness
- Connessione - Systems thinking
You will learn how to: Accelerate your learning process, Cultivate creativity every day, Balance analysis with imagination, Embrace ambiguity and uncertainty, Generate more ideas in less time, and Apply "systems thinking" to problem solving.
Thomas Edison didn’t just invent the incandescent light, he envisioned and created a system for lighting the entire world. His system included the means for funding, producing, distributing, monitoring, marketing, and continuously improving his inventions. Then, he did the same thing with the phonograph and moving pictures, launching the modern entertainment industry.
When asked what his rules were for the laboratory and its staff, Edison loved to respond, “Hell, there are no rules here - we’re trying to accomplish something.” However, as we study his life and work, it becomes clear that he did have powerful rules for innovation. Edison's rules were based on 5 essential core skill sets necessary to innovate. Edison’s Five Competencies of Innovation(TM) are:
1. Solution-Centered Mindset
2. Kaleidoscopic Thinking
3. Full-Spectrum Engagement
4. Master Mind Collaboration
5. Super-Value Creation
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Get Your Book Out to the World
Sam Horn’s books Tongue Fu!®, ConZentrate, What’s Holding You Back?, and Take The Bully By The Horns, have been endorsed by Stephen Covey and John Gray, and featured in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Readers Digest. Sam, former Executive Director of the world-renown Maui Writers Conference and 13-time Emcee consults with clients to help them become Authorpreneurs.
You can talk about why you don't have time to write a book...or you can attend this program and fast-forward the completion of a compelling, commercially viable book that will drive your career for years to come.
Sam won't waste time on theories or platitudes you've heard before. She'll share her cumulative knowledge as an international best-selling author and best practice tips from 15 years of working with top authors and publishing decision-makers. She'll share specific steps you can take to make your book break out - and reveal the ten things that will cause agents and editors to toss your project into the trash.
From writing the proposal to overcoming blocks and distractions from completing the book, to finding and working with agents or self-publishing, if your dream is to write, do not miss this program.
Bring your book ideas and plenty of paper. You'll be immediately applying what you learn to take your writing project (book, article, web copy, one-sheet) to the next level. Find out for yourself why hundreds of grateful clients say, "I couldn't have done it without you" and praise Sam for helping them get their book out of their head and into the world - where it's making a positive difference for others and a profitable living for them.
What’s the status of your project or where are you in your career?
- Where do you want to be with your project or career this time next year?
- What are your strategic goals? Do you want to drive more keynotes? Finish your book? Attract media attention? Introduce a product? Develop a full-time coaching career?
- Are you not sure of the commercial viability of your idea or project and want to evaluate its potential before you invest a lot of time, effort, and money?
- Do you want to write a book, start a speaking/coaching business, develop a business name and slogan, become an infopreneur, and just aren't sure where or how to start?
- Do you need help figuring out exactly what you, your creation or company has to offer that's different from what’s already available so you break out instead of blend in?
- Do you want to corner a niche by creating a niche?
- Are you looking for a memorable slogan for your company, cause or campaign?
- Are you looking to build a brand "empire" that produces multiple revenue streams?
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Risk Free Business
Steven Weinberg is an internationally renowned lawyer and business coach. For over 25 years, he has taught executives how to make better decisions. His clients have included Apple Computer, American Home Mortgage, Anheuser-Busch, Colgate-Palmolive, Microsoft, and SONY and dozens of smaller companies in every major industry sector. Risk free business is the culmination of everything Steve has learned and taught with all of these clients over all of these years.
The concept of risk is certainly elemental to corporate thinking, but how real is it? Is “risk” really a “thing” that exists in an objective, absolute state? Does it have a life independent of the decision makers and their perceptions and beliefs? Is it even real at all?
Risk-free business will help you, your employees and your organization gradually, effectively, and completely remove the fear associated with risk and risk itself from the way you and your company make decisions. Risk free business will help you and your company:
- Understand the meaning and elements of risk as it relates to business
- See how to minimize and gradually eliminate risk from all business decisions
- Identify the fears and risks that have impeded your company from being as successful as it can be
- Learn how to Implement decision making strategies that minimize and reduce risk
- Learn how to use these strategies in your company to be more productive and successful
- Make consistently better decisions in your business and in your life
Details To reserve a spot in the Workshop, click here. Location: Corte Madera Inn Staying at the hotel is not required, but is recommended. You are welcome to stay with friends or commute if you live in the Bay Area. For reservations, call the Corte Madera Inn at (800) 777-9670 to book your room now. Be sure to mention Marcia Wieder's Visionary Leader program. Dates
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