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Orrin Woodward: Financial Matrix scam exposed

I love the writing style of bestselling author Chris Brady.  He has a fun way of sharing very important topics like the one he links to about Orrin Woodward's latest research.  Check out this post:

1. Debt is Stupid

2. You're a Victim

3. There's a Way Out!

In essence, this is the message of NY Times best selling author Orrin Woodward's latest book (to be released this month), entitled The Financial Matrix.

Cleverly relating today's complicated financial environment to the popular 1999 smash hit movie The Matrix, Orrin Woodward draws upon deep scholarship to simplify a complicated picture, showing how the great masses of people have throughout history been ensnared in powerful webs of control.

The first scam or "Matrix" of control was slavery. This is the instance in which the powerful aristocracy simply (and horribly) "owned" another human being and therefore captured 100% of that person's output for themselves.

After slavery came the scam or "Matrix" of feudalism, in which the powerful aristocracy owned the land and therefore captured a large part of the production from the other person's working of that land.

Today, slavery and feudalism have thankfully receded, but in their place (and this is the key premise of Orrin Woodward's book) is a complicated, nearly invisible system of control every bit as diabolical as its two predecessors. He calls it the Financial Matrix.

I won't spoil the mystery for you, but take a look at some of the statistic pulled from the pages of this captivating publication:

1. The average American in 2014 is more than $225,000 in debt.

2. Average credit card debt among indebted households: $15,263 at an average interest rate of 14.95% APR.

3. Only 59 percent of Americans have at least $500 in a savings account.

4. Household income in America has dropped nearly 8% since its 1999 peak of $56,895.

Shockingly, these results are not accidental, nor, as some pundits would proclaim, are they merely the result of "stupid Americans over-consuming." As Orrin Woodward develops in his book, the condition of the average person's finances is actually the direct result of a financial system designed to feed off the unsuspecting. Fiat money, fractional reserve banking, and other mechanisms work behind the scenes to entrap those who don't realize the dangers of consumer debt.

For more information directly from Orrin Woodward himself, one can visit his blog here.

Enjoy what you learn and do what you can to escape from the scam of the Financial Matrix!

LeaderShift Review by Clarkston News

Not much more needs to be said here. Orrin Woodward and Oliver DeMille wrote an instant classic with LeaderShift. Here is another 10% saying so.

Don Rush, Assistant Publisher for Sherman Publications, wrote an excellent review of LeaderShift recently in the Clarkston News. Don has won numerous awards for column, editorial and feature writing and I was very impressed by the level of detail and understanding he culled out of his first reading of LeaderShift.

I truly believe that any concerned North American, who invest the time to read the book, will finish it a different person than when he began it. The book teaches so much through the dialog and the reports of breakthroughs from different readers astounds even my high expectations of the book.

Oliver DeMille and I had a goal to help change the dialog away from more State/Force solutions and towards more Society/Persuasion solutions. Persuasion solutions require leadership while force “solutions” always resort to threat, intimidation, and losses of freedom. Thank you Don and the Clarkston News for helping create the LeaderShift! Here is Don’s article.

Sincerely,

Orrin Woodward

Don’t Rush Me I’m part of the ’99%’ and that’s a problem Which leads me to the new book, LeaderShift

 

May 15, 2013 – Just this weekend I heard/read the Internal Revenue Service was busted targeting groups critical of the government. According to one on-line blog I read:

“The IRS repeatedly changed the criteria it used for singling out nonprofit applications for further review, at one point looking at all groups hoping to make ‘America a better place to live,’ according to new reports Monday morning.

“The Wall Street Journal and Reuters both reported the IRS moved beyond giving a skeptical eye to ‘tea party’ and ‘patriot’ groups. It was also targeting groups focusing on specific issues including ‘government spending,’ ‘government debt,’ ‘Education of the public via advocacy/lobbying to ‘make America a better place to live,’ and all groups that ‘criticize[d] how the country is being run.”

I don’t know about you, but that scares me and it should scare you. Talk about a government/bureaucracy run amok! This is the first we have heard of this even though the powers that be knew about this a full two years ago (in May of 2011). Holy Mother of Tyranny, Batman, how did things go so awry?

It’s been a long time since teachers at Clarkston High School forced me to read George Orwell’s Animal Farm, then 1984 and then Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, so I will not draw any conclusions or connections there. Truthfully, that was too long ago and for important stuff I seem to have forgotten my memory.

However (coincidentally?), two weekends ago I finished reading the book, Leadershift by Orrin Woodward and Oliver DeMille. Which, in its own parablistic way explains the problem of a government bloated with money, credentialists and bureaucrats. It also offers an out of the box solution. Solutions only solved by, gulp, changing the Constitution and having taxes broke down like this: local, 4%; state 3% and federal 3% And, let me tell you since I read it, the gears in my head are turning.

It is not a work of nonfiction. It is fiction set in the not too distant future. The premiss, America’s government is broken and run by folks who want to protect their turf, and keep the status quo.

Shift back to recent developments about the IRS. Does anybody see any parallels between Leadershift’s antagonists?

I recommend folks get their hands on this book and read it. And, then get ready to re-read it whilst taking notes, so you can do further research to see if facts portrayed as such, are really true.

For example, in the book I read folks in colonial America were really involved with their local township — and if you were a voting member of the town and you didn’t attend, you could be fined. America’s founders, the authors contend, wrote the Constitution but messed up, because they just figured Americans would always be involved, know the issues, read the laws and ask questions . We don’t and this has allowed more and more power to be usurped by career Washington, DC types.

Which leads me to the headline, “I’m part of the 99% and that’s a problem.” First, while I may be included in the slack-festers of a few years ago who protested the “unfairness” of America (because I can be described by my wealth as a Hundredaire), I am not talking about these folks.

I am talking about the 99% of the voting population who doesn’t attend their local government meetings, or watch broadcast of said meetings, or even read newspaper accounts of local village, township, city or school board meetings. That’s a problem which I am a part of.

I’ve justified not attending local meetings because I used to cover tons of them as a young community newspaper journalist. And let me tell you, these meetings are boring and many times they left bad tastes in my mouth because of the pettiness found there. Like I said, it was my justification for not attending.

Crappy politicians are not born in Washington, DC or in Lansing, Michigan. They start out locally. Then the “cream” of the crop rise to county seats, and so on. I challenge everybody to call their county commissioner and ask them what they learned their first year in office. Here’s how you can tell if that person is honest with you or lying.

“It’s was great. It was democracy in action,” is what the liar will tell you.

“It was an education. The party leaders would come in and tell us how we were gonna’ vote,” is something I’ve heard personally from the mouths of county commissioners.

Do you feel warm and fuzzy now? You shouldn’t. I don’t. Back to Leadershift. Once you read it, your reading isn’t done. You will have to follow up by researching Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America; the Federalist Papers (in particular Paper 51), 1913 in American history; Twilight of Elites by Christopher Hayes and anything about leadership.

Mises Institute's Blog Reviews LeaderShift

The Mises Institute's Blog recently reviewed LeaderShift. Oliver DeMille and Orrin Woodward share cutting edge political structures in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Furthermore, their explanation of the Five Laws of Decline ought to be required reading for every business executive attempting to turnaround his or her company. Here is the review.

It’s time for power to go back to where it belongs; to the people. With politicians and the business elite making all our decisions for us, we are losing our freedoms each and every day, and our standard of living goes down with that loss.

LeaderShift, by Orrin Woodward & Oliver Demille, is a call for people to stand up and become who they need to be in order to take back our freedoms and prevent it from being lost again. It in no way supports Republicans, nor does it support Democrats; it supports the American people (and Canadian if you read it from my perspective).

It is written in the form of a business parable about the United States, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this is just for Americans. There are a number of proposals put forth in the book that could drastically change the way we run our society, and the principles behind them can be applied to any country.

It all starts with the Five Laws of Decline; If these laws are not addressed in the frame-work of a company or a nation, they will become its undoing. LeaderShift will go through the details of how they apply to a nation, but the reasoning will become obvious as you go through them.

1. Sturgeons Law - 90% of everything is Crud (this includes workers, leaders, politicians…) This means that 90% of the people running for office (and being elected) can’t be counted on to do the right thing. Thankfully the other side to this law is that 10% of the people out there are good leaders. We just need to allow them to come forth.

2. Bastiats Law - People will do the least amount of work possible to satisfy their wants. This means that if someone can get what they want without doing anything or by getting someone else to do it for them, they will.

3. Gresham’s Law - When bad behavior is rewarded, more will occur; The good ones will be driven away. Through this law, If you need to be corrupt to get ahead in an organization (or country) those that aren’t corrupt will not even enter the field; if they are already involved, they will likely leave. They do not want to be bad people, and will not be part of something where they feel they will need to do something wrong. At the same time, Those that don’t mind doing something wrong will be much more likely to do so since they will be rewarded for it.

4. The Law of Diminishing Returns - There is always a point where increased quantity produces lower quality. If something grows too big, it will become very inefficient without any significant changes to cope with the growth. When a government gets to a certain size, anything more they do actually wastes more and more resources.

5. The Law of Inertia - An object at rest stays at rest; an object in motion stays in motion. This law ties all the other ones together. If the first four are in motion, it becomes very hard to stop them and even hard to turn them around.

There is no doubt that these laws are in effect in our nations today. It doesn’t matter who is in power, nothing ever really seems to change no matter what is promised during the elections. Whether it’s Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, or Conservatives, These laws are in effect.

Things keep getting worse because the people in power, or those in control, want it this way; it doesn’t get worse for them. Most people who want things to get better don’t know how to talk to people in a way that will make them understand – it often comes across as elitist and caring only for the rich. I have the same problem when I talk to people about this; they seem to think I don’t care about the poor because I speak in the same language as the books I got the information from, not in the language of the general population.

The book explains this idea very well:

“The problem is that business leaders are accustomed to using the language of elitism, so the people in the nation end up thinking that the 10 percent are trying to take away democracy and freedom. The truth is exactly the opposite. The 10 percent are really just caring, regular citizens who happen to have business leadership skills. But as long as they talk like elitists, many of the people won’t trust them.

The irony is that the real elites, the ones who want to increase the divide between themselves and the masses, have learned through history how to speak the language of democracy. They are actually more like aristocrats than elitists, but they are educated on how to sway things so they end up winning.”

What if we could get people interested in caring for themselves and their future? What if we could get people to see the truth, and not blindly be maneuvered by the elites; the 0.001 percent who actually control things?

What if we could significantly limit the power of our governments to tax? What if there were a set amount to be divided among the different levels of government; forcing them to take from each other if they wanted more instead of taking more and more from the people every time they wanted to do something? What if they could be limited to only doing what the people can’t do for themselves?

What if we were able to force the government to balance the budget and not hurt our future or that of future generations? What if an automatic election could be called if the budget wasn’t balanced? Would the worry of losing their position force them to do what ‘s right?

What if we were able to get rid of our fiat money system that lets the government print what it wants, with the burden put on the lower class who has no means to protect itself from inflation?

What if Senators were appointed by the states or provinces, helping to insure the federal government couldn’t encroach on their territory and responsibilities? What if most of the power and money were given to the cities and towns, to be spent in the areas that matter the most to that local population?

What if all non-military government meetings were open to the public, and broadcast on cable TV?

What if you could help make a difference?

Read LeaderShift!

LeaderShift Hits #2 on Wall Street Journal Bestseller List

Orrin Woodward's and Oliver DeMille's runaway bestseller LeaderShift hit #2 this week on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. LeaderShift describes how the Five Laws of Decline (FLD), first articulated in Orrin Woodward's Top 100 All-Time Leadership Book RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE, is destroying Western Civilization. In fact, every Western Society that collapsed did so through the effects of the Five Laws of Decline; therefore, any turnaround proposed by political leaders must account for and check the FLD.

Are you concerned about America, North America, and Western Civilization's liberties? If so, then read LeaderShift and learn the FLD and how to check them within free societies. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. Here is the latest WSJ top seller list.

LeaderShift Hits #2 on Wall Street Journal

LeaderShift: New York Times Bestseller

Congratulations to Orrin Woodward and Oliver DeMille for officially making the NY Times Bestseller list with LeaderShift. For Orrin, this is the second time he has made the NY Times list (Launching a Leadership Revolution co-authored with Chris Brady was his first) and it's Oliver's first time making the list. LeaderShift is receiving rave reviews from all who are concerned with the growing State and shrinking liberty of North America.

LeaderShift also made the bestselling list for the Canadian Globe & Mail, Publishers Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal. This is an impressive first week since the April 16th release of LeaderShift. If you haven't read the book, I encourage you to pick up a copy at your local bookstore or online from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

The booksigning tour from Orrin and Oliver was also a smashing success. With several locations surpassing 1,000 people in attendance, Hachette told Orrin it was one of the best book signing tours they have initiated.

LeaderShift Hits the New York Times Bestsellers List

Orrin Woodward: Adversity Quotient

Orrin Woodward, several years back, wrote an interesting article on Adversity Quotient. Some of this content made it into his All-Time Top 100 Leadership Book RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE. Orrin has co-wrote the NY Times bestseller Launching a Leadership Revolution, solo wrote RESOLVED, and now has co-wrote the soon-to-be-released LeaderShift - a political leadership book. It appears he is sharing leadership in the personal, corporate, and political fields. Enjoy.

Adversity Quotient (AQ) is the ability to persevere through numerous setbacks in order to achieve one’s dreams. Everyone has the ability to develop AQ, but winners through pupose, vision, and perseverance develop it, while the rest do not. The LIFE community is a great way to start learning AQ. Here is a portion of the Adversity Quotient chapter from RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE. Enjoy. Sincerely, Orrin Woodward

Another compromise that leads to failure and despair is an improper response to the pain inherent in the process of growth.  There are actually two types of pain: one comes from the inside due to the change process; the other comes from the outside due to criticism from those unwilling to make the same changes. Hope is the only fuel capable of burning through both types of pain.  Without hope, either of the pain versions will trump one’s willingness to endure, instead choosing to stop the pain by quitting the journey.  Author Robert Grudin writes, “One might reply that most people who surrender simply lack the ability to get very far.  But it is more accurate to say that ability and intelligence, rightly understood, include a readiness to face pain, while those characteristics which we loosely term ‘inadequacy’ and ‘ignorance’ are typically associated with the avoidance of pain.” When the pain reaches a certain threshold, everything inside of a person screams for relief, but champions, people with high AQ, persevere. Pain is overcome through the continuous focus on one’s purpose. Moreover, achieving greatness will require a faith that can move mountains, an AQ to endure the rising pain in the process, eventually reaching levels of success that more timid souls refuse to believe possible.

Grudin elaborates on the outside pain given to achievers as an unjust reward for their quest for personal excellence:

Modern society has evolved an idiomatic defense of non-achievement so subtle and elegant that it almost makes failure attractive.  We can equivocate with failure by saying that we could not stand “the pressure”. We can inflate mediocrity by calling cow colleges universities, by naming herds of middle-level executives vice presidents or partners, and by a thousand other sorts of venal hype.  We can invert the moral standard by defending a fellow non-achiever as being too sensitive or even too good for the chosen arena. This double rejection of pain—a surrender sanctified by a euphemism—has in our time achieved institutional status.  Because it includes its own anti-morality, it can be passed on with pride from generation to generation.  Other ages may have been as full of non-achievers as ours, but no other age, I believe, has developed so comprehensive a rhetoric of failure. To conclude, then:  those people in quest of intellectual dignity and independence in the late twentieth century must act in a cultural context that has done its best to annul or camouflage one of the key elements in the quest, the challenge of pain.  For this reason such people currently labor under a double burden: they must face the pains inherent in their task, and they must do so in a culture that has little appreciation for their suffering.

Today’s achievers then, handle not only the traditional pain associated with excellence, but the additional pain associated with the envious prattle of today’s internet age non-achievers. Champions understand that it’s better to be mocked and criticized by non-achievers, than to become a non-achiever themselves.

AQ can be developed, but only through discarding excuses, rejecting compromises, and choosing to feed one’s faith, not one’s fears. In order to achieve dreams, people must willingly surrender who they are, to become who they dream to be. One cannot have his cake and eat it too. AQ refuses to surrender personal responsibility (what one desires) to an impersonal environment (what is offered). Bestselling author Chris Brady, in his book Rascal, articulates what it takes to break free the herd, “It takes character to be different. It takes character to stand apart from the masses for legitimate, purposeful reasons. It takes character to be who God called you to be without succumbing to the pressures of others and their ideas of who you should be and how you should live. For those who embody this concept and live a truly authentic life, we will assign the name of Rascal.” People with AQ are Rascals, refusing to be lulled to sleep by comfort, choosing instead, to pursue their convictions over conveniences.  Rascals pay the temporary price of pain for success, rather than pay the permanent price of regret for failure.

Tim Marks: Self-Directed Education

Tim Marks has a doctorate in self-directed education. He has, for over a decade, invested his time and money into learning and growing. The results have been nothing short of miraculous. In his bestsellling book Voyage of a Viking, Tim shares his struggle with dyslexia. In truth, it was so bad that one of his teachers told him he would never be able to read. The good news is that it was a false prognosis. Tim not only reads rapidly, but has become an excellent speaker and writer. If you haven't read his book, pick it up through the LIFE Business. Orrin Woodward believes Tim is the fastest to change of anyone in LIFE and that is huge praise considering how many people are part of the compensated community. Here is Tim's article.

It’s amazing to me how many people say they believe in something but won’t defend it.  For Christians, this might include not defending their religion or their God.  For non-Christians, this may include not standing up for their business or their favorite charitable organization.  But as slow as some Christians are to defend their faith, they are quick to defend their beliefs about the importance of a college education.

After enjoying a morning run with my daughter, helping her train for basketball, we were sitting at the breakfast table discussing the topic of education.  We talked about how it is so odd that you have to have two years of algebra now to graduate high school.  Why is that odd?  Because most people are never going to use algebra for anything!  Now, I agree there are some careers where you do need some math, such as engineering.  For example, I worked in a plant with forty-two high-tech robots.  But did I use algebra?  Nope!  I got by with basic math skills on a daily basis.  In fact, I honestly can’t recall a time I ever used algebra in my career!

Most education today is like a conveyer belt, as described by Oliver DeMille in his book Thomas Jefferson Education.  It moves people along from one thing to the next while subjecting them to the identical treatment.  But we are not robots to be manufactured; we are unique beings and our career paths will be unique as well!  A lot of the things we are taught in the “conveyer belt” education system are just not needed in our normal, day-to-day life.  Please understand: I am not against college or education… in fact, in a sense I am probably more PRO-education than most people that teach at a college.  I just believe education should be self-directed and that we should give it some thought before we dive into a certain curriculum.

With this in mind, I want to share a powerful video with you on the subject of education.  (Special thanks to my friend Tony from Michigan for sharing this with me!)   As you watch this short video, my hope is that it causes you to think.  Some people might feel their blood pressure rise.  Some might feel offended.  Some people might even turn off this video.  But what I’d like you to do, if you wouldn’t mind, is to watch the WHOLE video, and then at the end just challenge your thoughts on education and WHERE and WHY you and your children are getting an education.

What I love so much about the LIFE business is our focus on a self-directed classical education.  For example, two of our founders, Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, are both very well educated in the “conveyer belt” education method.  Despite that, both of them have received more practical education in their first year of launching their business than in four years of college.  From there they’ve helped tens of thousands of people get a classical education, whether that person went to college or not.  And that’s what the LIFE business is all about: helping you educate yourself in principles that will aid you in everyday life.

Enjoy the video!

God bless, Tim

Live & Learn

Leave it to Chris Brady to tie in Divine Comedy with leadership. In this post Chris shares on the importance of living life to the full. The LIFE Business, led by Orrin Woodward, is changing the face of community building through its compensation plan. Whatever a person does, he shouldn't join the drearies and sit around waiting for something good to happen. Claude Hamilton speaks of courage and bravery in his talks and leadership demands this courage. Here is the article.

In Dante's Divine Comedy, in Canto III, Dante is guided by Virgil, the Roman poet of antiquity, to the gates of Hell.  The first beings they meet on this perilous journey are a group of lost

souls called the "Drearies," who linger around Hell's gate.  As Dante writes, they are "those who lived without blame or praise."  Author Thomas Cahill calls them "whining wraiths who never truly lived at all, the lukewarm, who are 'as hateful to God as to his enemies,' the people no one claims."

To me the Drearies are the very opposite of leaders.  They lived on earth for a number

of years, ate food, labored at things, and then died.  Their lives are entirely forgotten because they stood for nothing, fought for nothing, risked nothing, attempted nothing, and died as nothings. And, at least in Dante's imagination, their eternal life will be comprised of endlessly more of the same.

Leaders are passionate beings.  They attack the status quo, sometimes at great peril to their own peace and well-being.  But leaders can do no less.  They live while they are alive.  Their internal light shines bright for accomplishment, contribution, service, impact, making a difference, and leaving a legacy.  Leaders burn with a purpose to fulfill and never feel quite right when not in alignment with that purpose. 

Tragically, though, many people fall into the trap of the Drearies.  They don't do much wrong, but they don't do much right either.  In fact, they don't do much at all.  And if they do, they simply dabble.  A preacher was given some advice early in his ministry from an experienced and stately gentleman: "Don't be a dabbler."  That thought stuck with him and served to keep him focused on his biggest priorities.

Why are so many people complacent?  Why do so many dabble?  Why do so many frit away their days in nothingness and wake up at the end of it all and wonder, "what if?"  I wish I had the answers to these and all similar questions.  But I do know that life lived fully is better than life simply lived out.  We shouldn't tip-toe through life trying to get to death safely.  We should stand and make a difference with the gifts God has given us.  Through prayer, counsel, scripture, dream-building, service to others, and meditation, we should search for our life's purpose and then chase after it with everything we've got.  You will never regret the time you spent giving your all to a worthy purpose. 

So find it.

Give to it.

Live it. 

Seven Keys to Great Teaching

Oliver DeMille has become good friends with both Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. His understanding of today's educational challenges fit right in with the mission of the LIFE Founders. Oliver's book Thomas Jefferson Education (TJED) has seven keys for great teaching that he discusses in the book. He wrote an article on the seven keys that I will review in the next several blog post. In Orrin's book RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE, he shares the importance of a person discovering his purpose and TJED helps the process along. Here's Part I:

By Oliver and Rachel DeMille

There are seven principles of successful education; when they are applied, learning occurs. When they are ignored or rejected, the quantity and quality of education decreases. Whatever the student’s individual interests or learning styles, these principles apply.

And whatever your role in education—home, public, private, higher education or corporate training—the application of any and eventually all of the Seven Keys will significantly improve your effectiveness and success.

1. Classics, not Textbooks

No one can deny the value of a great idea well-communicated. The inspiration, innovation and ingenuity inherent in great ideas elevate those who study them.

Great ideas are most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers and prophets, and their original works. Great works inspire greatness, just as mediocre or poor works usually inspire mediocre and poor achievement.

The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

This first key means that in pursuit of a transformational education, in preference to second- or third-generation interpretations, we study original sources — the intellectual and creative works of the world’s great thinkers, artists, scientists, etc., in the form they were produced.

2. Mentors, not Professors

The professor/expert tells the students, invites them to conform to certain ideas and standards, and grades or otherwise rewards/punishes them for their various levels of conformity.

In contrast, the mentor finds out the student’s goals, interests, talents, weaknesses, strengths and purpose, and then helps him develop and carry out a plan to prepare for his unique mission.

Various types of mentors are present at different levels of a person’s progress and in different stages of life.

In education, the value of a liberal arts mentor cannot be overstated. Parents and teachers who apply the Seven Keys can be an effective part of the mentoring of a student in the early phases of learning, and help prepare the individual to fully take advantage of the influence of later mentors that will be formative for continued development and achievement.

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NYTimes Best Selling Author on Leadership Topics

First, Orrin Woodward is recognized internationally as an best-selling author by the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Weekly, USA Today, and Money Magazine.

How many of Orrin Woodward's critics or, those that claim Orrin Woodward is a scammer have as many best-selling books on leadership, team building and executive management?

Have any of Orrin's detractors taken their writing talents to pen something that lifts and edifies? No, they haven't.

He co-wrote the leadership best seller  Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence along with a number of other critically acclaimed leadership books.