and he knew she was right. Everything was causing him to
stop blaming others and start looking at himself. He had
never thought about having an open or closed heart before,
though. He was just glad he hadn’t had a heart attack yet.
“And now it’s time for you to lead, George,” she de-
clared. “Not manage. I’m talking leading with positive
contagious leadership. This is what your team craves.
They want you to lead with heart. It’s the mission piece
you have been asking about. The heart is your power
center. It’s where contagious positive leadership comes
from and the more open, powerful, and positive it is the
more powerful you are.”
“She’s not kidding,” Marty spoke up from the back of
the bus. “This is not rah rah motivational stuff. It’s real peak
performance science now. In fact I found research pub-
lished in numerous scientific journals conducted by the In-
stitute of HeartMath, heartmath.org.” Marty picked up his
computer and showed George. The screen looked like this.
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The Energy Bus- The heart acts as an emotional conductor and radi-
ates how you are feeling to every cell in the body via
the heart’s electromagnetic field; this energy field
can be detected up to 5 to 10 feet away. - The heart’s electromagnetic field is 5,000 times
more powerful than the brain.