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  The MSI Press managing editor recently wrote a review of our affiliated book, Certainty : Certainty: How Great Bosses Can Change Minds and Drive Innovation deserves reading—more than once. Here, Mike Mears, a highly experienced leader and leader-trainer with a unique and fascinating background, presents a clever, very well written, highly readable, and engaging mix of an imagined story of a prehistoric man along with anecdotes about real people from real life to deconstruct firmly held myths about how leadership works and what leaders should do—myths   resulting in practices that achieve the opposite of what they purport. The expansive diapason against which Mike sets his myth-busting suggestions (that really do work) ranges from years BC until years past today. Mike paints his picture with cartoons—simple, to the point, and eliciting a smile or ah-hah; tables and charts—clear and helpful; and appendices—useful for application to any leader’s work environment. What one disc...

  MSI Press announces a new, 5-star,  affiliated  book,  Certainty , by Mike Mears. Released today, the book is already in the top 100 of Amazon new releases. Book Description: Discover how great leaders draw out the best of human nature. The dilemma .  Our Stone Age brains are hardwired for survival and programmed to fear the unknown, yet the work world demands constant innovation. The enemy of better leadership is uncertainty deeply buried in the minds of your workforce. The solution .  In  Certainty,  Mears offers the answer: understand human nature. Work with it rather than pushing against it. Mears draws on neuroscience and psychology-plus compelling stories from his career-to offer practical leadership advice, including: - Entertaining, science-backed explanations of how our brains think and how our primitive brains are colliding with the demands of the modern workplace - New feedback, change management, and delegation tools to build an envi...