Personal Authority
The first question Douglas is usually asked is not about the human body’s innate ability system or antiquity’s greatest secret; it’s what his personal authority is for making these discoveries. The answer he gives may surprise you. His answer is none.
- Sure, he has earned a couple of college degrees, successfully reached the top of the corporate ladder, and held some of the most prestigious positions in his field and industry.
- Sure, he’s been published and wrote a book with whom many considered to be the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in his field.
- Sure, he’s lectured at major conferences, conventions, and universities, been retained to be the lead expert witness in two states’ largest civil lawsuits, and been on teams that have won numerous local, regional, and national awards.
- Sure, he was tapped to develop the turnaround strategies for the two multi-billion dollar underperforming business units in his industry.
- Sure, he developed an enterprise positioning strategy that resulted in the highest multiplier in his industry.
- Sure, he’s arguably developed the world’s leading strategy alignment and management system, the first successful new urban planning system in the US in over 100 years, the next generation in staffing platforms, and what appears to be the organizational design of the future.
- Sure, he’s identified the solutions to employee disengagement, finding enough good people, and enabling managers to achieve the objectives for which they were hired, inspire their employees, and create cultures of high productivity.
- Sure, his quest to unravel the mystery of extraordinary human performance in the workplace led to the study of twenty academic fields in search of the answer. That included biology, biosystems, neurology, genetic engineering, epigenetics, cultural anthropology, socioeconomics, ethnology, military personnel development, sports coaching, religious studies, and seven fields of psychology: Industrial-organizational, personality, educational, religion, sports, positive, and strengths-based.
- Sure, his quest to unravel the mystery of extraordinary human performance in the workplace led to the study of twenty academic fields in search of the answer. That included biology, biosystems, neurology, genetic engineering, epigenetics, cultural anthropology, socioeconomics, ethnology, military personnel development, sports coaching, religious studies, and seven fields of psychology: Industrial-organizational, personality, educational, religion, sports, positive, and strengths-based.
- Sure, he’s read the works of celebrated scientists, psychologists, sports coaches, authors, CEOs, religious leaders, and motivational speakers on the topic of how to perform at the highest levels in the workplace.
- Sure, he’s been around the world a couple of times in search of the answers to extraordinary human performance. From the desert of the Great Sahara to the jungles of Africa to the highest mountain ranges in North America. From the world’s most hallowed grounds and archeological sites to the halls of its most respected universities and museums.
- Sure, he’s studied the behavioral characteristics of thousands of top performers across the occupational spectrum, billionaires and over 20,000 millionaires.
- Sure, he’s run countless workplace experiments across multiple industries, tested each of the fourteen scientific theories on which antiquity’s greatest secret is based, and found them to be valid and reliable.
But none of this qualifies him or gives him the personal authority to have solved one of the oldest mysteries in history. What enables people to perform at extraordinary levels in the workplace and/or display knowledge or expertise in which they have had no formal training or education. Or resequence the most powerful leadership and human development platforms in history. It’s simple, really, because no one in the modern era has ever traveled this path or gone this far down the rabbit hole before. There is no one with the personal authority to have made these discoveries. These are above everyone’s pay grade, most assuredly Douglas.’
The bottom line
The bottom line is the validity of antiquity’s greatest secret lies not in any workplace experiment or, scientific study, or archeological find; it lies with you. In whether or not you believe in the three core beliefs or tenets on which our most ancient civilizations built their socioeconomic platform. And whether or not you believe it’s time to unlock the untapped performance potential that lies within the human elements of our economies and the nine pillars of society that support them.
Every day, around the world, people just like you, particularly in the workplace, are performing at levels over two times the average and, in some cases, with no college degrees, little to no experience, and virtually no training. There are people who express an in-depth knowledge of a subject matter and/or perform tasks at unusually high levels with little or no formal training in either. There are people who are genuinely happy just about every day, who love their jobs, are passionate about the work they are doing, and are surprised they are getting well paid for what they do. There are people whose lives are void of personal problems and unwanted feelings, emotions, and behaviors. There are people in inspiring and emotionally fulfilling marital relationships who have never had an argument with their spouse and who experience almost none of the child-rearing issues that everyone does. Whose children are destined to live extraordinary lives.
What do these people have in common? The answer to this question lies in the three tenets of most ancient civilization’s human development platform.
The three tenants
1. All human beings are born with innate abilities, a life task, and have an optimal career path
that is aligned with both.
2. All human beings are born void of non-instinctual life skills.
3. The tribe’s success is contingent on ten factors:
- The degree to which the tribe continues to operate on the leadership trilogy and subscribes to the belief the innate ability profiles to perform the roles of Wiseman, Great Hunter, and Tribal Leader at the highest levels are mutually exclusive.
- Its ability to raise whole and complete children. Children with complete sets of life skills and who have absolute clarity on what they were born to do, the innate abilities they were born to do it, and the optimal career path that is aligned with both.
- The level to which everyone understands the principles of optimal human performance.
- The degree to which everyone is clear on their innate ability profile, life task, and optimal career path with which is aligned with both.
- Everyone is in roles aligned with their innate ability profile and is on their optimal career path.
- Everyone understands the unique innate capabilities women have to make dreams come true, fulfill the emotional needs of others, raise whole and complete children, and the extraordinary role they play in the tribe’s success or failure.
- Ensuring everyone has the knowledge and the skills to have an inspiring and emotionally fulfilling companion relationship.
- The degree to which each workgroup is led by a “natural” workgroup leader with a complete set of leadership skills, abilities, and attributes.
- Everyone is working in environments that inspire and enable them to perform at their highest levels.
- The degree to which each of the nine pillars (of society) embraces, integrates and supports these tenets.