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Win Wisely by MythBusting
This short guide shows how successful people win more by not being seduced by management and personal development myths in midst of chaos. These few insights from over 15,000 CEOs help you discover bold new methods to debunk myths so you can win during disruptive times.
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Click here for PR pageWhat Is This Winning and Losing Thing About?
We’re told that everyone has to be successful, get a trophy,
But in the real world someone wins, someone loses.
We are here because winners and losers:
- Drive civilization to get stronger vs protecting the lowest common denominator.
- Create greater science, society, and organizations vs diluting everything.
- Make us faster vs going as slow as the slowest person.
It’s not a choice.
You’re hardwired to win.
What does winning mean to you?

But we're told that losing is bad.
Wrong.
Behind very successful people is a well-worn road of failures.
Ignore this and we shift our focus from owinning to keeping someone from losing.
I help make you a winner
. . . or a powerful loser

FOR CEOS
Executive Team
Winning Bootcamp
Take executive thinking to new strategic levels by busting myths causing the high failure rates of strategic planning and using scientific, evidence-based methods to produce superior results. Fresh insights discovered by Don Schmincke while at Johns Hopkins couples the latest sciences with the most ancient insights to produce a proprietary program developed with 15,000 CEOs in over 100 industries.

The CEO Winning Leadership Lab
A 6-week group-coaching cohort experience exposing CEOs to the latest applied research to:
- Increase revenues
- Enhance strategic growth and competitive advantage
- Resolve talent recruitment and retention challenges
- Reduce change resistance
- Improve accountability and execution speed

FOR EMPLOYEES
"Becoming Samurai" Winning Leadership Training
An online training program based on 700 year old archive and proven in over 2,000 workshops. Designed to:
- Increase career potential
- Improve personal leadership
- Enhance recognition
- Strengthen team bonding
- Achieve Extraordinary results
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Winning by mythbusting the lies, myths, and delusions of management gets you better traction in your:
- career
- sales
- talent
- culture
- competitive advantage
See what a MIT and Johns Hopkins researcher discovered.
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"With your programs, our revenues and profits increased dramatically."
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"The most revolutionary and transforming event in my entire career."
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