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A Holiday Greetings Card for You

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:11:00 +0000

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The Peak Performance Circle

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:39:00 +0000

Performance Architecture is a systematic approach that facilitates the alignment of your knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits to help you attain and sustain Peak Performance. It’s based on training principles used by world-class athletes and teams to win in sports, which can be applied to achieving excellence as a business performer.

The Peak Performance Circle is a workshop that applies Performance Architecture to help you integrate these three key “value design” factors: Focus, Energy Management and Breakthrough Design. The process facilitates the formulation of your personalized action plan (your Peak Performance Blueprint) to go beyond your “personal best” and achieve exponential results as a leader.

I’ve created a Yearly Program to develop with a stable group of 8 to 10 executives over 6 months and also a Weekend Retreat Format for a 2 ½-day program. Please download the PDF Outline to read the curriculum and decide if you want to become a participant or organizer.

The 2009 CEOs Edition is due to start in February, endorsed by BIG - The Business Innovation and Growth Council in Charlotte, NC. For more information, please contact me.

[Download the Peak Performance Circle Outline]

Design Your Inspired Transformation for 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:32:00 +0000

So, here's the metaphor for the current times: we're holding on to the towel rack in the Titanic, contemplating our choices for survival in a frozen ocean that surround us and limits our possibilities. Now is a time for new thinking, for inspired transformations. What will help us stay afloat? What will keep us engaged? What will give us a chance to reach a better state?

One thing I've learned from tennis is that you can be match-point down and you can still win. The key is to embrace the challenge and look at it as a problem solving opportunity before you run out of time. Once you get two or three points in your pocket, it's possible to regain your confidence and get back into the match. Giving up is not an option, but many people do, just when they could have found the way out. Peak Performers never quit.

I believe that in 2009 we will discover the threads from which we can pull "Inspired Transformations" out of the jaws of defeat. Yet, we have to design them for ourselves and help those who can't come up with strategies. I've decided to share with you a Transformation Blueprint to get you started. In tough times, being resourceful might be the most important skill. Putting one foot in front of the other leads to high positive energy and certainty up in Mt. Everest or at your office desk.

Here's to your productive 2009.

The Innovation Institute - McColl Center for Visual Art

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:44:00 +0000

The Innovation Institute is a new initiative at McColl Center for Visual Art that adds another facet to the Center's core values of creativity and the value of artists to society. The Institute is a professional and personal development curriculum focused on creativity and innovation. The Innovation Institute is a six-day program led by artists with support from a professional executive coach and consultant in organizational development. The curriculum helps the participating individuals discover and unleash their own creative core, experience the challenges of creativity, harness their imagination, develop the capacity to recognize, influence, and support creativity in others, and apply these new abilities to their professional and personal lives.

The individuals being sought as participants for the program are senior level executives who are committed to their company, interested in differentiating their individual and their company's performance, committed to making a difference, who are risk takers and leaders, and want to add to the growth and market value of their company. The program is hands-on and experiential. The program size is limited to twelve participants to ensure a deeply personal experience while providing the dynamic of a group from whom to learn. The program takes place at McColl Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

For more information, you can contact Barbara Spradling, The Innovation Institute's Director

Leading Successful Change

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:38:00 +0000

In December 2005, I attended a Business Executives Symposium in Venice, Italy, organized by Promostudio, on the eve of The Nobels Colloquia in Venice, a yearly gathering of some of the best minds in Economics. One of the presenters was Professor Douglas Anderson (left), Dean of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, with whom I had the pleasure to share dinner along with his wife and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Professor Jean Paul Fitoussi and my colleague Klaus Regnault. During dinner, I had the opportunity to learn more about his viewpoints on how to lead towards successful change.

Professor Anderson says that the pain of change comes from not from the change itself but from the losses, the endings, the anticipations and the transitions they are resisting. Beliefs, fears and unmet needs shape behaviors and they in turn shape consequences. If we are going to encourage change, we need to deal with the mindset, the beliefs set. It's no use to talk about how great the outcome of change will be without addressing the psychological component in a very direct way.

Professor Anderson emphasizes that this story tells us that the pain we associate with change is not so much the new thing that we need to take on but is the old thing that we have to let go. Michael Beer of Harvard Business School offered a perspective on the issue of successful change in his classic book, "Organization Change and Development: A Systems View." He summarized a successful organizational change process with a simple formula:
Successful Change = (D x M x P) > C
D = Dissatisfaction with the Status Quo
M = A new model for how the Organization will be run
P = A planned process for managing the change
C = Cost of the change to individuals and groups

Beer's insight into successful change says the combined effect of the dissatisfaction, the new model and the planned process must be greater than the cost to people and groups (even emotional and psychological cost). The relationships among these three are multiplicative. If any one of them is missing, there will be a zero value and the cost will be far too great. Result: no successful change.

Since change is the function of leadership, being able to generate highly energized behavior is important for coping with the inevitable barriers to change. Just as direction setting identifies an appropriate path for movement and just as effective alignment gets people moving down that path, successful motivation ensures that they will have the energy to overcome obstacles.

Professor Anderson reminded his Venetian audience that, during transitions, we need to let the grieving process take place, just like Elizabeth Kubler Ross described it in her work: Shock - Denial - Anger - Depression - Bargain - Acceptance and Exploration of the New State. It's easy to get stuck in one of these stages and we might cycle back into one of them. In corporations, it's easy to see how leaders react to external changes in the market by forming a task force that will bring about change in the company to adapt; yet, very rarely they ask themselves: "What must I do to change?"

Learn how you can lead towards successful change

2009 Consumer Trends from trendwatching.com

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:03:00 +0000

trendwatching.com is an independent and opinionated trend firm, scanning the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas.

They have released their 2009 Consumer Trends Report, summarized as follows:
1. “NICHETRIBUTES” (Low-cost, practical tributes to the zeitgeist)
2. “LUXYOURY” (In 2009, you define what constitutes luxury)
3. “FEEDBACK 3.0” (Think we’ve reached full transparency?)
4. “ECONCIERGE” (Savings are the new green)
5. “MAPMANIA” (Why maps are the new interface)
6. “HAPPY ENDING” (The silver lining of each downturn)

To apply these six trends, the company suggests you ask yourself if they have the potential to:
1. Influence or shape your company's vision.
2. Inspire you to come up with a new business concept, an entirely new venture, a new brand.
3. Add a new product, service or experience for a certain customer segment.
4. Speak the language of those consumers already 'living' a trend.

[Link to the original source]

[Thanks to Tom Merilahti from SICU for the tip]

"NEVER SURRENDER" Workshop in Dusseldorf

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:49:00 +0000

"NEVER SURRENDER: Achieve and maintain Peak Performance under pressure"

Learn to apply the strategies of sport champions to maximize your executive performance under pressure by improving your Focus, increasing your Energy and designing your Breakthrough

One- Day Professional Development Course for Executives

Course Directors: Klaus Regnault (Germany) and Carlos Salum (USA) - Peak Performance Experts
Date: Monday, November 24 from 9:00 to 17:00 hours
Location: PowerPrinting GmbH Headquarters
Im Taubental 30 - 41468 Neuss - Germany
Language: English – with clarification in German, if required

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 14, 2008
Early Registration Fee: Euro 495 per person + 19% Tax before Deadline
Late Fee: Euro 595 p.p. + 19% Tax at the door (subject to availability)

Course Description
What do peak performers in sports and business do exceptionally well?
Why do peak performers overcome monumental challenges while others give up?
What keeps high achievers motivated after they have conquered their goals?
What do some of the world's elite athletes have to teach us as professionals?
How do the skills and routines they practice translate into helping us all achieve peak performance for ourselves and our clients?

As professionals, we are all performers. We all need to deliver results on demand and under pressure, just like world-class athletes do.
The global financial crisis has reshaped the corporate landscape for several years to come. To respond effectively to challenges and difficult situations, we need to train to become Peak Performers.
Peak Performers in sports align, integrate and monitor three critical factors: Focus, Energy Management and Breakthrough Design. We call this alignment “Performance Architecture”
As professional Peak Performers, we systematically use specific techniques to operate in our Ideal Performance State to remain fully engaged and increase our creative thinking skills. As a result, we are able to manage more effectively, help our clients in more responsive ways and improve our organization’s creative output.

Key Factors in Performance Architecture:
Focus: Identifying the Right Things to Do
Define your values, worldview, goals, objectives and inspiring visions.
Broaden your perspective and expand your possibilities.

Energy Management: Doing Things Better
Expand your physical and mental capacity to respond to challenges.
Increase your influence by instilling energy and purpose in others.

Breakthrough Design: Doing Better Things
Surpass existing parameters to mobilize others towards positive change.
Accelerate your transformation and generate exponential growth.

Who Should Attend
Any professional, corporate executive or entrepreneur of any background, culture, educational history or slate of personal experiences who wants to the opportunity to take the fullest advantage of unique, astonishing developments in human performance.

Overview
To enhance your "life's portfolio" and assure your long-term success as an executive, you must adopt a multi-dimensional training program, just like professional athletes do. The quality of your life as an executive is directly proportional to your ability to think better and to manage your physical, emotional and mental energy.

This course will teach you how to achieve and maintain your Ideal Performance State [IPS] by expanding your physical, emotional and mental skills through systematic training. Through peak performance training, you will balance your individual needs, your family responsibilities and your profession's demands. Your training plan will allow you to improve your efficiency in practical, measurable ways.

“Never Surrender” also teaches you leading-edge ideas and findings in such frontier sciences as evolutionary psychology and biology, brain research, game theory and theory of moves, complex adaptive systems, non-linear dynamics and numerous other post-postmodern fields of inquiry.

Course Goals
To provide a road map that will enable you to align their personal and professional goals
To help you understand and manage their behavior under pressure, which is essential to achieve and maintain the Ideal Performance State (IPS)
To empower you by making them aware of the power of the mind-body connection, so they can operate more effectively, both at the interpersonal and team levels
To provide you with lateral thinking tools that will enhance their capacity to think creatively and find alternative solutions in a variety of situations
To introduce you to effective performance design tools to refine their goals, overcome barriers and define action plans in the context of their individual, professional and social roles
To integrate the individual training process with the corporate culture, a sure way to consolidate the overall progress of an organization

Course Benefits
At the end of this insightful, comprehensive course you will:
understand how the mind-body connection influences your behavior under pressure
manage your emotional responses by using effective mental and physical strategies
design a personalized road map to achieve and maintain your lifelong performance goals
have more physical and emotional energy available throughout your weekly schedule, thanks to compact yet effective workouts
become more resilient and resourceful in the face of obstacles and disagreement
interact with others in the organization in a more effective and constructive way by developing new ideas out of solution-design instead of resorting to argument and criticism
transfer your peak performance mastery to your relationship with your colleagues and your clients

Methodology
Inventory: You will be introduced to the fundamentals of peak performance, followed by intensive analysis of your lifestyle and working patterns.
Training Plan Development: You will create a personalized training plan to increase your physical, emotional and mental energy overtime. The application to team training issues follows a specific model and group exercises. The Course Director employs a variety of training tools, such as: personalized inventories, questionnaires, tests, workshops, group discussions, flow diagrams, video examples, physical and mental exercises, role-playing, study binders, guide charts, reading recommendations and a personalized plan outline.
Commitments: You will commit to achieving measurable results, which you will monitor through specific charts.

About the Course Directors
Klaus Regnault is a Peak Performance Consultant based in Düsseldorf, Germany. In association with Josef Brauner, former president of Sony Germany, Board Member of Deutsche Telekom and CEO of T-Com. Together, they run Complex Coaching and Consulting, covering the areas of business, sports and the arts.

As a corporate trainer, he conducts workshops based on his "Complex Coaching" method, which unifies physiological, mental and emotional aspects of performance. Regnault also talks about his experiences with the Maasai Warriors in Tanzania. The Maasai are regarded as the most mentally tough native Warriors on Earth. Certain aspects of their training and sense of teamwork are applicable to the corporate world in Western countries, and Regnault helps organizations make the transfer in practical and effective ways.

As an international tennis coach, he works with professional players ranked in the top-100 in the world. He also trains golfers to help them become mentally tough under pressure. Klaus Regnault has been the European representative of Dr. James Loehr’s sport psychology speaking tours from 1988 through 1992.

Carlos Salum is the President of Salum International Resources, Inc., a management consulting firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Since 1993, he has focused on Performance Architecture applied to executive training and corporate events’ management.

His clients are located in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Salum regularly lectures on Performance Architecture for corporate audiences, which include HSBC Private Banking, Bank Julius Baer, ABN AMRO Private Banking, Benfield Group, The New York Knicks Organization, US Air Force Academy, Swiss Military Leadership Academy, Manres AG, Information Management Group, KPIT Cummins and The Neurological Institute, among others.

He has participated in ground-breaking research in peak performance training with some of the world's leading sport scientists, such as Dr. Jim Loehr, Dr. Nick Hall, Dr. Jack Groppel and Pat Etcheberry This work involved some of the world's top athletes. Salum contributed to the careers of outstanding tennis players such as Gabriela Sabatini (U.S. Open champion, 1990) and Sergi Bruguera (French Open champion, 1993-94) and the Italian Davis Cup Team, among many others. Salum has organized corporate events featuring world-renowned creative thinking experts like Dr. Edward de Bono, Richard Saul Wurman and Dudley Lynch.

He is currently developing a sponsored conference in Europe in association with Promostudio (Italy), which will feature several Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics and top Economics' professors from Harvard, Yale, MIT and Stanford. Salum is also an international tennis coach, a radio and television journalist, a produced playwright (London, Tampa, and Buenos Aires) and a documentary film producer.

INFORMATION and REGISTRATION:

Klaus Regnault
E-mail: kr@complex-coaching-consulting.com

Carlos Salum

E-mail: csalum@saluminternational.com

Leadership - Rebecca Merrill - "Living in Yes"

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:26:00 +0000

Salum International Resources has recently established a strategic alliance with Merrill Leadership, an executive coaching and consulting company based in Durham, North Carolina focused on optimizing the potential of senior executives, senior management teams and boards of directors. Through the experience of executive coaching, clients learn to skillfully handle real-time leadership challenges, create more strategic leadership paradigms and develop fresh perspectives.

Rebecca Merrill, the founder, earned a bachelor’s degree with a double major in Psychology and Religion graduating magna cum laude with honors from Wellesley College in 1985. She earned a master’s degree in Education from Harvard in 1989 and a second master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Smith in 1993. Rebecca’s first book entitled Living In Yes: Helping Smart People Make Good Decisions was published in 2003. Rebecca's excellent book includes "The Living in Yes Tool Box" to help us navigate life's toughest decisions by examining critical issues through nine lenses: Serenity, Energy, Attraction, Integrity, Generosity, Power, Honesty, Creativity and Happiness. The book is available through Amazon.com

[VISIT MERRILL LEADERSHIP'S WEB SITE]

Emotional Intelligence Mastery: Introducing EQmentor

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:23:00 +0000

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a highly acquirable skill critical to today’s rapidly changing workforce, workplace, and work-life trends. The most effective way to enhance your EQ is to learn from someone who has walked your path and to learn over a committed and extended period of time.

EQmentor unveils a powerful approach to mentoring and enhancing EQ. Working adults in general have four primary developmental areas: Physical, Intellectual, Spiritual, and Emotional. We have gyms, libraries, schools, books and places of worship, but where is “Life’s Gym” where an adult can safely explore experiences to harness knowledge and wisdom to make better daily decisions? EQmentor is the place for 24x7 emotional and intellectual exercising allowing the working professional to learn at the point-of-need.

EQmentor boasts the industry’s most rigorous mentor certification and matching processes, a cross-industry community of professional peer-collaboration (user-generated content), custom-built Web 2.0 technology and unique parameters of engagement. [

See why EQmentor is unique]

Salum International Resources has recently become a strategic partner of EQmentor, offering corporations and consultancies the opportunity to provide Emotional Intelligence training to their managers and staff.

>>If you are interested in EQmentor, please let us know

Edward de Bono 101

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:04:00 +0000

I'm confident you will enjoy watching Dr. Edward de Bono describe the key concepts of Creative Thinking in four short video clips on a YouTube Video Channel.

If you are looking for a deeper understanding on how to apply these concepts to generate new ideas in a systematic way, please contact us.

[WATCH THE VIDEOS]

How to present like Steve Jobs

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:03:00 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is well known for his electrifying presentations. Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses the various techniques Jobs uses to captivate and inspire his audience — techniques that can easily be applied to your next presentation.

[WATCH THE VIDEO]

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:01:00 +0000

One of the key markers of peak performance is the quantity and the quality of sleep we have every week. When your sleep patterns are disrupted, your performance drops significantly and your mood changes, putting your health and relationships at risk. Now, the BBC offers you a Sleep Profiler that you can take for free. The Profiler takes about 10 minutes and includes the Epworth Test - an assessment tool used by sleep experts worldwide.

[TAKE THE TEST]

Corporate Events - Team and CEO Challenges

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:58:00 +0000

CORPORATE TEAM CHALLENGES
Intelligent Sport® is the fastest growing team development concept, in the world - specifically designed for business. The concept is owned by Challenger World (an IMG company). It fuses high energy sports action with strategy and intelligence, specifically designed to inspire & motivate people and teams for business. Intelligent Sport® involves fun physical pursuits such as running, kayaking and mountain biking combined with important business skills such as: Teamwork - Time management - Decision making - Devising strategy - Logic problems - Communications - Strategic navigation - Scaled engineering

[CHALLENGER WORLD] [FRANCE CHALLENGE]

CEO CHALLENGES
CEO Challenges is the world leader in sport competitions designed specifically for CEOs. Its ultimate goal is to find the world’s best CEO in a number of different sports. It began in 2001 with the CEO Ironman Challenge, and now it has expanded to include CEO Triathlon, Golf, Cycling, Marathon, Fishing, Sailing, and Tennis Challenges. CEOs who take part in these events really do love to compete. They compete for business constantly, and love the feeling of accomplishment when they achieve success. These people have typically achieved any goal they have set out for themselves, and they like to be around people like themselves – goal-setting, high-achievers who let nothing get in their way.

[CEO CHALLENGES] [SPONSOR A CEO CHALLENGE]

Since 2001, over 300 CEOs have taken part in our events, and the total gross revenue of all their companies combined is $270 Billion. The average company size of the participants is $935 million, however this is heavily skewed by a number of CEOs that run companies with over $10 Billion in revenue. The majority of CEOs that participate own companies that are in the $50 - $100 million range. The events are open to CEOs, Presidents, or Owners of companies with over $2.5 million in annual gross revenue ($5 million for C-Suite Executives).

Brainware: Your ToolKit for Higher Achievement

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:50:00 +0000

In times of transition and uncertainty, high achievers and peak performers get ready to reengineer their skills, their thinking and their careers. To do this effectively, it helps to use Brainware developed by Brain Technologies Corporation.

We have selected the most useful tools to help you find Purpose, Direction, new Thinking Paradigms and your Values' set. The Brainware will also help you identify your Strengths and understand the games people play.

AssetReport is a unique tool to have a multidimensional perspective on your worldview, the way you process information and how you can improve your thinking and emotional skills. When you buy AssetReport, you can also engage in a Personal or Executive Coaching Consultation at a special rate.

[LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TOOLS]

[PURCHASE THE TOOLS]

Avoiding Death by PowerPoint

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:18:00 +0000

We are all guilty of inflicting countless hours of pain to many kinds of audiences with MS PowerPoint, "the tool de force" in business today. The world continues to hope for a PPT Killer and, until its arrival and triumph, we need to learn how to become better at handling text and visuals.
Here are a few interesting tips shared by Brandon Utteley, partner and president of Carbonhouse in Charlotte, NC.

[VIDEO 1]

[GUY KAWASAKI]

Read Biz Books in 15 minutes - Join getAbstract

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:06:00 +0000

getAbstract is the world's largest provider of business book summaries. We make you the best-read, most expert player on the business scene today.getAbstract's library consists of 4,000 business book summaries.
getAbstract produces 500 new business book summaries every year.

Each five-page summary is presented in a crisp, magazine-page format. You can read it in less than 15 minutes - the perfect length to deliver the book's key ideas. The no-fluff summaries are logically structured to get the maximum out of your reading time. The best way to see what a summary looks like is to read one.

Click for a free summary.

Select from more than 4,000 summaries. That's 10 times the selection of a typical summary site. Download the summaries you need right away.

>> Join Get Abstract and Access over 4,000 business book summaries

Best Restaurants in the World

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:17:00 +0000

Vortex readers usually do a lot of corporate entertainment and most of it is international. I recently came across a compilation of the 50 Best Restaurants in the World that might be worth bookmarking to compare with old favorites.

[SEE THE LIST]

Battle at Kruger Video

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:16:00 +0000

The "Battle at Kruger" video on YouTube has been watched by more than 30 million people and has over 30,000 comments. The National Geographic Channel is now showing a documentary. It's worth watching and diving into the analysis of the action, as it seems to go beyond a natural occurrence during a photographic safari. This event seems to trigger interpretations that spill over to areas such as:
* Survival of the fittest
* The power of the victims
* Power in unity
* Killer instinct vs the Herd and many others.

[WATCH THE VIDEO]

Performance Architecture Manifesto

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:09:00 +0000

Changethis.com has published my Manifesto on Performance Architecture.

You can read it here:

http://changethis.com/46.02.PerformanceArchitecture

or the direct link to the pdf here:
http://changethis.com/pdf/46.02.PerformanceArchitecture.pdf

I look forward to receiving your comments. Thank you.

Exclusive Video Interview with Dr. Jim Loehr, sport psychologist

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:24:00 +0000

Twenty years ago, while I was working at the Professional Tennis Registry with master pro Dennis Van der Meer, I met sport psychologist Dr. Jim Loehr. He was starting to get recognition for his approach to mental toughness training for tennis and had written "Mentally Tough," a book that had caught the media's interest as it dealt with winning in sports applied to winning in business. I saw an opportunity to develop Loehr's international speaking tours in Europe on a handshake and on my own dime. For eight months, I lived in my friend Klaus Regnault's couch on a very limited budget, yet I signed up six cities where Loehr delivered eye-opening presentations to tennis pros.

The speaking tours’ success was my ticket to join Loehr at the IMG/Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, where we worked with world-class tennis players such as Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Arantxa Sanchez, Mary Joe Fernandez and many others on how to achieve peak performance.

In 1992, we moved to Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, where Loehr formed LGE Saddlebrook Sport Science with Dr. Jack Groppel and trainer Pat Etcheberry. The company rapidly expanded and corporations started to request long-term engagements to help their employees become "corporate athletes."

Jim is the author of best-selling books such as "Mental Toughness Training for Sports," "Stress for Success," "The Power of Full Engagement" and "The Power of Story." He's the Chairman of The Human Performance Institute in Lake Nona, Orlando, where executives and athletes learn how to align their physical and mental skills to sustain their Ideal Performance State and becoming fully engaged. I'm honored to have received his mentorship and eternally grateful for having endorsed me to become an American citizen and being able to work with him.

I recently visited Jim in Orlando and he kindly sat down for a video interview that I'm certain you will find both fascinating and revealing.

VIDEO 1 - "What is Peak Performance?" - 6MB - 2.30 min.
VIDEO 2 - "Winning in Sports applied to Winning in Business" - 6MB - 2.30 min.
VIDEO 3 - "The Power of Story" - 7.6 MB - 3 min.

[Click here to Watch]

>> How to start a Peak Performance Program for you and your company

Skills Evaluations: What's Your Rating?

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:00:00 +0000

I have created three Self-Evaluations that will allow you to find out how you rate against standards developed by world-renowned specialists in the areas of Peak Performance (Dr. Jim Loehr), Emotional Intelligence (Dr. Nick Hall) and Leadership Skills (Steve Sullivan).

The results are given to you as percentages and you can immediately find solutions within our Services' Portfolio.

Go ahead, check how you are doing and find out how you can go beyond "personal best:"

Are you a Peak Performer?

Are you Emotionally Intelligent?

How strong are your Leadership Skills?

In Search of Meaning

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:29:00 +0000

I've always been fascinated by Viktor Frankl's approach to life and the teachings of his book "Man's Search for Meaning." It has certainly influenced my thinking and my life in many levels. His recollection of the Holocaust and what helped him survive the concentration camps against insurmountable situations stays with you forever.

Frankl's Logotherapy Institute offers video clips of interviews in its Web site. I've chosen to share with you a clip of an interview where he describes his key concepts and explains how we strive to find life's meaning while coping with our tendency to seek pleasure and power.

[Watch the Video] WMV - 8MB - 3 min.

>>Are you interest in discovering new perspectives in your personal and professional life?

Steve Sullivan's Leadership Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:33:00 +0000

Steve Sullivan has collected his most powerful quotes, which you can find in his best-selling books "Selling and Mach One," "Leading at Mach Two" and "Remember This Titan." He will be visiting Dubai at the end of May, presenting his Leadership approach in events organized by StratCon.

[Download PDF]

[Purchase Sullivan Books]

Image Power - Roberto da Carrara's Custom Suits

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:20:00 +0000

Roberto da Carrara, 202A Mott Street, NYC.

Mott Street has turned into a kind of select Savile Row, with a bevy of bespoke tailors and shirtmakers opening in the past few months. The newest addition to the Nolita neighborhood is Roberto da Carrara, a swank suit shop that has a hip Firenze feel. After two years as a wholesale operation, creators Robert Mazzucchelli and Victor de Leon embarked on this retail adventure to give more men the chance to experience their high-quality custom and ready-to-wear collections. Yet, despite the downtown locale, the prices are uptown—suits are in the $6,000 range, while shirts will run you $400. [Source: Fashionindie.com]

Memorable Experiences - Luxury and Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Carlos Salum) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:10:00 +0000

Customized Holidays in the Cote d'Azur
Vortex Referral (Luxury Activities)

Peak Performance for Golf Course
Vortex Event (Germany) (Spain)

Formula One - Monaco and Silverstone
Vortex Referral (Tickets and Hotels)

Specialty Cultural Events in Europe
Vortex Referral (Unique Concerts)

Tennis Lessons w/Robert Salum
Vortex Referral (Florida) (Cape Cod)

Rent a Villa in Cabo San Lucas
www.suncabo.com

Dive with Great White Sharks
www.cagedive.com

Sail as Crew on a tall Ship
www.picton-castle.com

Drive Ferraris (USA) - Ferrari Official Event
www.experienceferrari.com:80/

Drive Ferraris (UK) - Track Days Event
ferrari driving experience uk

Drive a Porsche-powered Baja
www.wideopenbaja.com

Fly a Real Fighter Jet in Air-to-Air Combat
www.aircombatusa.com

Rent a Harley Davidson and Explore
www.eaglerider.com

Social Responsibility Tours
explore and help pdf

Raft and Bike in the Grand Canyon
www.bikeraft.com

Extreme African Safari Adventures
www.lionworldtravel.com

Military Action and Adventure
www.incredible-adventures.com

Swim with Dolphins in the Bahamas
www.dolphincayatlantis.com/