Released on = January 3, 2006, 10:50 am

Press Release Author = Mustard Seed Investments, Inc.

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = Can a book take the place of a leadership skills training
course? Author and educational entrepreneur, Bill Thomas, confronts this challenge
by stuffing his latest Handbook with chunks of leadership skills training courses.
Yet the question remains, can leadership skills be broken into little pieces and
then be absorbed into personal streams of actions?

Press Release Body = Pueblo, Colorado--January 3, 2006 Can a book take the place of
a leadership skills training course? Author and educational entrepreneur, Bill
Thomas, confronts this challenge by stuffing his latest Handbook with chunks of
leadership skills training courses. Yet the question remains, can leadership skills
be broken into little pieces and then be absorbed into personal streams of actions?

Historian, Henry B. Adams, once commented, \"Nothing in education is so astonishing
as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.\" \"Education is
never effective unless it\'s transformed into an effective, substantially potent
activity\", agrees Thomas.

According to the, \"Life at Work in the Information Economy, World Employment Report
2001\", published by the Geneva-based, International Labour Office (ILO), \"The
process of formal education and training is becoming less one of passing on
information - as there is too much of it in today\'s world - and more one of
individuals learning to learn so that they can find out for themselves.\"

Thomas interprets the ILO\'s findings to mean, \"Knowledge can be recognized by its
relevance, applicability and usefulness in the particular situation confronting
those who need the know-how to effectively deal with those circumstances.\"

He explains, \"In a word, you have knowledge when you have the information you need
to analyze, evaluate, plan for, speak about, understand, handle and influence or
control the situation at hand.\"

His \"Leadership Power Handbook: Mastering the Dynamic Drivers of Legendary Leaders\",
provides readers with useful knowledge while giving them an engaging sense of
relevant, applicable, practical connections to the material. Learn more about it
here: http://www.leadership-toolkit.com/leadershiptrainingbook.html

Those ends were achieved by tapping into the contextual experiential knowledge base
of legendary leaders - what skills, attitudes, principles, strategies and processes
did those famous people need to apply to successfully deal with their problems?

Thomas, who is Managing Principal of the Leadership-Toolkit.Com, declares, \"Readers
searching for a warm fuzzy story or myth about some personality will be quite
disappointed with this book - names and facts and figures are hardly ever mentioned
in this book.

I simply used quotations to perform the heavy conceptual lifting and let those
quotes indicate the direction and supply the momentum for the book\'s major themes.\"

Contact Bill Thomas for more on this topic.
Direct line: (973) 519-1902
Email: Editor [@] Leadership-Toolkit.Com
http://www.leadership-toolkit.com
Mustard Seed Investments, Inc.
Office Phone: +1-719-544-9949
140 West 29th Street, PMB-161
Pueblo, Colorado 81008 USA
Book URL: www.leadership-toolkit.com/leadershiptrainingbook.html

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