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The Porcupine Principles! How to Move Prickly People to Preferred Outcomes, offers a captivating parable that unveils a realistic and practical approach on how to influence people during times of difficulty and change. Through storytelling and a creative approach to strategic thinking, Steven Iwersen explores the most common challenge of leadership - negative thinking and uncooperative people.The story follows Carter, a new CEO of a regional business, as he faces his greatest challenge: leading his employees from an old business model to a preferred future. Even though he does everything in his power to be positive, he runs into critical attitudes and the resistance of people who would rather keep things as they are currently. How can he win them over? What can he do to keep their negativity from hurting company morale? A chance encounter with a helpful business mentor and an unexpected trip to a mountain town in Idaho opens his eyes to a winning strategy of persuasion.Iwersen's tale, based on the real World Championship Porcupine Races, reveals five simple principles that go to the heart of being a leader and working with prickly people. The Porcupine Principles! is an engaging message and strategy that applies to anyone in any role in any organization. It offers wisdom that is profound and can be used immediately in your experience.A leadership fable similar to books by authors Patrick Lencioni or Ken Blanchard.

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Steven Iwersen's influence as a speaker and writer in the field of leadership has been far-reaching. His ideas and approach to creating a leadership culture and navigating leadership challenges have helped leaders within corporations, associations, government and the military. He is the founder and owner of Aurora Pointe, LLC, a leadership development and training company. He started the company in 2006 after having served for 25 years in leadership roles within business and the ministry. His leadership tendencies were evident even as a child. A mentor once said that Steven had been a leader from the backyard to the boardroom, the playground to the platform. He is the author of The Porcupine Principles!, Personality Jazz: Creating Harmony at Work, and Unplugged: Mindfulness and the Law (2016), coauthored with Joel Oster. He was also a contributor to a management webinar series that featured his programs Developing a Success Mindset and Overcoming Barriers to Execution. Steven Iwersen is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and has been very involved with the National Speakers Association. He has served the association in many capacities including Chairperson of the National Chapter Leadership Committee and Co-Host for Voices of Experience, the association's audio & video magazine. Steven is the proud dad of three boys and a grandfather to six adorable girls and two outstanding grandsons. He and his wife Brandy live in the Kansas City area where they enjoy world-class Jazz music and the world's best BBQ.

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