If you're looking for a way to bring more meaning into your busy life, this book may have the answers. Growing the Distance discusses how to bring out the leader in each of us. Covering personal growth, motivating others, achieving dreams and success, this book has a simple message and the strategies to attain rewards. Streamline your life and learn what's really important with the help of Jim Clemmer's inspirational book.

Change is happening all around us - in the family, the workplace, and society as a whole. Which leaves us with two basic choices. We can be victims of change. Or we can meet the challenges of today's rapidly changing world by changing ourselves. We can advance from where we are right now to where we want to be tomorrow. We can grow the distance.

As bestselling author Jim Clemmer demonstrates in this highly readable book, personal growth is all about developing the qualities of leadership that each of us has, regardless of our position in society or the workplace. With his unique blend of humorous quips, anecdotes, and insightful commentary, he has taken decades of experience in organizational leadership development and created a remarkably easy-to-read guide to living and growing that will benefit anyone who reads it.

Jim Clemmer has been described as one of North America's leading transformation and improvement thinkers. He is the author of a number of international bestsellers, including "Firing on All Cylinders," "Pathways to Performance," and "The Leader's Digest." In his presentations, workshops, seminars, and retreats, he has shared his insights with hundreds of leading corporations and organizations, as well as tens of thousands of individuals.

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.

Many people don’t read leadership and personal development books (even though they may own a few) because they are turned off by an academic, detailed, or preachy approach. That’s why, with " Growing the Distance ," we decided to present this collection of timeless growth and leadership principles in a new and uniquely approachable format.   Here you’ll find each chapter — and each section within that chapter — structured with “layered” headings, summary paragraphs, and subheadings. The text is set in distinct modules, any of which can be read in just a few minutes.   What that means for you, the reader, is an opportunity to read this book in exactly as much depth as your time or interest allows. So you can browse the book and gather just the essential principles. Or you can enrich that information with all the quotes, anecdotes, and commentary that you’ll find in " Growing the Distance ."   Leadership and personal growth isn’t a step-by-step formula. It’s not a linear “begin here and end there” process. It’s as individual as we are. " Growing the Distance" uses that philosophy to provide an inspirational guide that each reader can tailor and make their own for years to come.