One of the greatest traits a leader can have is their ability...just like a prize fighter...to take a hit.

Because if you're going to take a leadership role, you're getting into the ring...and your opponents aren't going to be taking it easy on you.

When it comes to launching or managing an organization, there is no sugarcoating this...it won't be simple. In fact, it will probably be the hardest thing you'll ever do in your lifetime. We wish this wasn't an exaggeration.

You will encounter unimaginable adversity along the way. Disappointments. Unexpected obstacles. A lot of injustice.

Yet, successful leaders are able to survive by leaning on the strong belief that when seemingly insurmountable difficulties arrive, they'll be able to confidently say, "This too shall pass."

Join Michael and Jim as they explore this critical topic.

As leaders and entrepreneurs...we are all about growth. In fact, some would say we are obsessed with growing.

We like to captain our ways to new revenue records and to reach new levels of profitability. That's natural for entrepreneurs, and in some ways it's the drive that is needed to actually keep us in business.

Yet, there are those times when you look out at sea and in the future you see darkening skies and you go, "Oh my!"

It's times like these when you need to batten down the hatches.

Join Michael and Jim as they share how to respond when the business climate gets tumulteous.

"I've got a strange feeling something bad is about to happen." Have you said to this yourself before?

If you've been in leadership for any length of time, you've probably experienced this feeling many times throughout the course of your career.

This feeling is actually something valuable to you in your leadership role. It is a sixth sense of a sort. The ability to discern what will happen before it eventually does.

The challenge is to not become paranoid while still maintaining an acute sense of awareness of anything and everything that could go wrong in the organization you are leading.

Join Michael and Jim as they explore how to balance a high level of leadership awareness without overreacting and causing more harm than good.