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While conducting training programs for leaders in several companies, Dr. Scoresby was able to identify what the truly great leaders were like. They were able to give a personal touch to their relationships with others and possessed several other personal qualities that made their leadership really effective. You can learn what they did and make yourself a great leader.

In one of the truly unexpected events of growing boys, it turns out that the stories they learn from parents and other leaders can increase their sense of self-reliance. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about how these stories help boys see what they can do to take charge of their lives and make themselves the most successful. Then these same boys offer help to the next generation just like great men do.

In former years, folklore wisdom grew out of people’s everyday experiences. Some of these were kernelized into phrases that have passed the test of time. Dr. Scoresby talks about how these two phrases can be used today and the effective forms of communication and teaching they represent.

Great leaders are very good at crafting a strategy designed to ensure that goals and desired outcomes are achieved. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about the four elements of a successful strategy and how to use this process to help those you lead make connections from the ideas they have to the actions necessary to achieve them.

When family-owned businesses do not succeed, the consequences might be found in both the business and the family. Dr. Scoresby talks about how to enable both your business and your family to be successful by selecting priorities and creating boundaries to ensure there are resources for both.

It seems like there is an increasing number of parents who protect their children from responsibility. They do this in several different ways, but the discouraging consequences are almost always the same for the children. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby will describe those consequences, the most common methods parents use, and what parents might do instead.

Love has many powers, one of which is the desire to change when we are loved and the motivation to love those who are trying to change. Some of the most dramatic changes in anyone’s life are the result of being loved or wishing to love someone else. Learn how to successfully use several genuine forms of love to promote change in yourself and others.

Our forebears didn’t have the same ease and abundance of communication that we do, so they had to put a lot of meaning into a very few words—and the words had to have the power to instruct and influence. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby talks about how people of yesteryear taught their children about being frugal and self-reliant.

Learn how emotional and mental processes collaborate to help us be certain about faith, which means we are certain about being uncertain. This provides the power to act when there is a need for charity toward others. Learning to be certain in this fashion will help us add strength to the ties that bind us and lift our spirits as human beings.

When people want to follow a leader, the effort they give and their achievement is usually greater. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby explains how the most successful leaders define the direction for all who follow and inspire great effort, which leads to remarkable success.