David Lim
About David Lim
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Lessons from Everest
In this presentation, David Lim shares not only a story of overcoming the odds, but also how anyone can apply practical steps to seize and stretch goals and bounce back from any setback. In this presentation, audiences learn how to:
Set goals, stretch goals, and achieve those goals
Improve your belief system to get results
Lead, not be led by change
Use the 1% rule
Take massive action for success
Speaking videos
Books by David Lim
“How Leaders Lead: 71 lessons in leading yourself and others” (2011)
Learn how to lead yourself and teams better. Based on over a decade of magazine features, and the Life Without Limits e-newsletters (subscribed by thousands of corporate clients since 2001) lessons on 'how to do it' better include: - Setting stretch goals - Goal getting - Creating Your Own Luck - Using the Wake-Up Test - Dealing with Dissatisfied Workers - Avoid the biggest mistakes leaders make as communicators - Redefining failure Leadership lessons include: - Why teambuilding doesn't work, and what does instead - The importance of doing absolutely nothing - Leadership lessons from the general elections - Having a sense of being - Creating a winning culture
“Against Giants: The Life and Climbs of a Disabled Mountaineer” (2003)
How many times times can a man cheat death? Surviving a rare, potentially fatal nerve disorder. Near cremation by invisible, high-intensity flames. Inches away from house-sized boulders screaming down from above. Negotiating hungry, man-eating crevasses on glaciers. Imagine facing all these and much more, as a partially disabled man. For most of us, such close encounters with mortal dangers 8000m above civilisation are experienced only in movies. For David Lim, it's a typical day at the office. AGAINST GIANTS is about confronting your deadliest nemesis, slaying dragons in your head, overcoming physical disabilities. And the triumphs reserved for those who would take their limits beyond the conventional definition of possible.
“Mountain to Climb: The Quest for Everest and Beyond” (1999)
MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB is a book by David Lim, leader of Singapore`s 1st Mt Everest Expedition in 1998. It is Singapore's top-selling adventure epic, now back in print after a sold-out first run. From 1994, David Lim planned and led a series of mountaineering expeditions in preparation for the eventual Mt Everest climb in 1998 which succeeded after a nail-biting series of setbacks and mishaps. One week after the team`s triumphant return, he was stricken with the rare and mysterious nerve disorder, Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Within days, he was near death as the disorder paralysed virtually all his limbs and shut down his respiratory system. Speechless, unable to swallow or move and racked with virulent forms of pneumonia, he endured a "hellish" six weeks in an intensive care unit before stabilising. He spent six months recovering in hospital, including a rehabilitation process in which the re-learning of simple tasks such as writing, dressing and walking were enormous challenges compared to the Everest climb. MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB is a first-person narrative of the story behind Singapore`s quest for Everest; the failures, heartbreak and sacrifices behind one of Singapore`s greatest sporting achievements. It is a study of, not only an Everest expedition, but also about how a team is formed, and goes from infancy to adulthood.
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