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Jim Clemmer is a bestselling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, workshop/retreat leader, and management team developer on leadership, change, customer focus, culture, teams, and personal growth. In addition to his many radio and television interviews, Jim has written hundreds of magazine, journal, newsletter, and newspaper articles and columns on these topics. During the last 25 years he has delivered over two thousand customized keynote presentations, workshops, and retreats, as well as consulted to and coached executive teams in hundreds of major companies, the public sector, universities, family businesses, and healthcare organizations.

Jim has holds the prestigious Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation. This is the highest earned designation in Professional Speaking. Based on rigorous criteria and Client ratings, CSP is awarded by the International Federation for Professional Speakers to less than 3% of the estimated 15,000 speakers in the world. His is also a director on the national board of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

"The VIP Strategy: Leadership Skills for Exceptional Performance" was Jim's first book. It became a Canadian bestseller and was published in Europe and Japan. His second book, "Firing on All Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for High-Powered Performance," was both a Canadian and an American bestseller with over 100,000 copies sold. Jim's third book was "Pathways to Performance: A Guide to Transforming Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization." His next book – focused on personal growth/leadership – was "Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success." Based on the popularity of the approach and leadership framework in "Growing the Distance," Jim's most recent work is a companion book entitled, "The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success." Leadership guru, Warren Bennis, says "If you're looking for a book that illuminates the topic of leadership in a useful, readable and lively way, this is it."

Jim writes and speaks from plenty of "hands-on" experience. Applying the improvement and effectiveness principles he teaches, Jim co-founded and led The Achieve Group to become Canada's largest training and consulting company. Both were purchased by Times Mirror and merged with Zenger Miller, Learning International, and Kaset, to form AchieveGlobal. Prior to developing Achieve, Jim established a very successful performance record with an international water treatment company. Starting in sales, he quickly became sales manager, trainer, and the company's youngest general manager.

Jim lives in Kitchener, Ontario with his wife, Heather, and their three children, Christopher, Jennifer, Vanessa, and cute little Riley their cavalier spaniel. He and is listed in half a dozen Canadian, American, and international Who's Who directories.

From Publisher

Leadership is a popular topic today because it's so central to personal, team, and organization success. This has lead to a confusing multitude of leadership grids, charts, formulas, jargon, fads, charismatic stories, and buzzwords. Drawing on decades of research, extensive experience coaching and developing thousands of managers, and previous bestselling books, Jim Clemmer distills today's leadership information overload to its core essentials. The result is a series of insights and bite-sized briefings on the timeless principles of leading people, "The Leader's Digest."

Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback for his previous bestseller, "Growing the Distance," Jim Clemmer wrote "The Leader's Digest" using the same "leadership wheel" framework. By popular demand, he continues with the unique format interweaving pithy quotations, anecdotes, and insightful commentary.

Jim Clemmer is a leading North American thinker on improving personal, team, and organization performance. He's a popular keynote speaker, management workshop/retreat leader, consultant, and executive coach. He's delivered over two thousand presentations and given hundreds of media interviews on leadership. His international bestsellers include "The VIP Strategy," "Firing on All Cylinders," "Pathways to Performance," and "Growing the Distance."

Leadership is central to your organization's success. "The Leader's Digest" can help foster and reinforce key leadership messages for all your supervisors and managers, as your organization wrestles with balancing technical, processes, and people issues.

Provide your management teams with the core essentials: a series of insights and bite-sized briefings on the timeless principles of leading people.

This book was written to be distributed in quantity by executives, managers, and training professionals attempting to help build leaders throughout their organizations:

- provide a strong base for leadership development programs
- build a common foundation of values around its timeless principles
- bring management teams together with a common language and set of values
- embrace personal leadership development as a key to dealing with continuous and unpredictable change
- help develop managers into leaders

Drawing on decades of research, extensive experience coaching and developing thousands of managers, and previous bestselling books, Jim Clemmer is a leading North American thinker on improving personal, team, and organization performance. He's a popular keynote speaker, management workshop/retreat leader, consultant, and executive coach. He's delivered over two thousand presentations and given hundreds of media interviews on leadership. His international bestsellers include "The VIP Strategy," "Firing on All Cylinders," "Pathways to Performance," and "Growing the Distance."

"Growing the Distance" inspires powerful personal growth for everyone in your organization - from the senior management team to the frontline employees, by creating "leaders in action." Today, more than ever, companies look to everyone, at all levels, to think and act like leaders. The key, as Jim Clemmer demonstrates, is to first create inner self-leadership, which ultimately will determine how people perform in their roles and help move the organization forward.

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