Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Laura Goodrich: Seeing Red Cars - Blog Business Success Radio
Acclaimed radio and television host, internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, co-owner of On Impact Productions, and author of the inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Futures, Laura Goodrich, describes how when you buy a red car, you see red cars everywhere. Laura shares how this is seeing and getting more of what you focus on in business and in life. Unfortunately, she points out that people spend too much time and energy focusing on what they don't want instead. Laura offers ideas and techniques to help you stop fixating on negative thoughts, and rewiring your brain to focus on positive results. Laura demonstrates how this concept can transform a company culture where employees ply to their passions and strengths, focus on what they want, and achieve breakthrough results and innovations.
Laura Goodrich is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, June 30, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Acclaimed radio and television host, internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, co-owner of On Impact Productions, and author of the inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Futures, Laura Goodrich, describes how when you buy a red car, you see red cars everywhere. You will learn:
* Why we tend to see things that we focus on
* Why people focus on what they don't want instead of what they do want
* How to transform your focus to what you do want
* How to change workplace culture to focus on what people do want
Laura Goodrich (photo left) is like Suze Orman meets Katie Couric with a splash of Dear Abby and a Meg Ryan smile. Whip-smart and vibrant, but also down-to-earth and approachable, Laura is an internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships.
Energetic and enthusiastic, she has over twenty five years professional experience; sixteen of which she has spent as a speaker, organizational trainer, coach, and consultant. Her business stories and experience from all over the globe have earned her the reputation as someone who can create positive circumstances and relationships in even the most challenging workplace dynamics.
My book review of Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future by Laura Goodrich.
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with acclaimed radio and television host, internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships, co-owner of On Impact Productions, and author of the inspirational and very practical book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Futures, Laura Goodrich, as she describes how when you buy a red car, you see red cars everywhere. Laura shares how this is seeing and getting more of what you focus on in business and in life. Unfortunately, she points out that people spend too much time and energy focusing on what they don't want instead. Laura offers ideas and techniques to help you stop fixating on negative thoughts, and rewiring your brain to focus on positive results. Laura demonstrates how this concept can transform a company culture where employees ply to their passions and strengths, focus on what they want, and achieve breakthrough results and innovations on Blog Business Success Radio.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Put Your Mindset to Work by James Reed & Paul G. Stoltz - Book review
Put Your Mindset to Work
The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love
By: James Reed, Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D.
Published: May 11, 2011
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1591844088
ISBN-13: 978-1591844082
Publisher: Penguin/Portfolio
"You can multiply your chances of getting the job you want and enjoy uncommon success at work while enriching your life immensely along the way", write recruitment and resiliency experts James Reed and Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D., in their eye opening and essential employment traits developing book Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love. The authors describe how specific mental traits not only help the job seeker more desirable to employers, but also how those traits make the individual more likely to succeed and be more engaged on the job once hired.
James Reed (photo left) and Paul Stoltz understand that employees need strong skillsets to complete their assigned job tasks. In most jobs, skills are critical to performing the employment responsibilities. The authors point out, however, that skills alone are not an assurance of being hired, or of being a success in the new employment position. The authors emphasize the importance of what they call mindset for the employee to set themselves apart from the other job applicants and co-workers. A superior mindset includes such traits as integrity, resilience, tenacity, and perspective. For the authors, skills are what a person does, while the mindset is what a person sees, thinks, and believes. The authors describe these mindset qualities as being ever more important as the nature of employment changes, and as the economy becomes ever more globalized in scope.
Paul G. Stoltz Ph.D. (photo left) and James Reed consider mindset to be crucial to not only landing the job, but for being successful in the position following the hiring process. The authors consider mindset to be the lens through which a person views and perceives the world. The power of the mindset creates opportunities for personal growth and the learning and application of the success tools shared in the book. The authors offer the insight that mindset is what employers are really seeking when they hire new people.
Evidence is presented in the book that employers overwhelmingly prefer mindset to skills. They see skillsets as being something they can teach new hires, while mindset is not something they can teach to their employees. In other words, the authors provide strong evidence that for employers, mindset overwhelmingly trumps skillset, when hiring new employees. The authors narrow the concept of mindset even farther to a certain type of important mindset they call the 3G Mindset, based on the premises of:
• Global: openness and big-picture perspective in a global market
• Good: positive force with a firm moral compass
• Grit: tenacity and resilience to achieve success despite adversity
For me, the power of the book is how James Reed and Paul G. Stoltz combine their theoretical framework for the 3G mindset with practical advice for putting the concepts into practice. The book is well structured with each chapter ending with a recap of the ideas presented for review and continued study. The authors also provide hands on self assessment tools, including access to their 3G Mindset site. The book provides the concepts and techniques for gauging, developing, and strengthening these crucial traits. The authors not only describe mindset as critical to being hired and successful once on the job, but they also demonstrate how to put the power of mindset into action.
I highly recommend the insightful and talent management building book Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love by James Reed and Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D., to anyone seeking a definitive guide to discovering the critical personal strength of mindset. This book changes the talent and leadership search and success emphasis, away from skills toward the more important lens of mindset, better suited to a globalized marketplace.
Read the essential career strengthening book Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love by James Reed and Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D., and discover why mindset is more critical to the hiring process and career success than skills. This book provides the background and positive steps toward capitalizing on the power of mindset.
Tags: Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love, James Reed, Paul G. Stoltz, Ph.D., career management, business book reviews.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Kevin Davis: Slow Down, Sell Faster - Blog Business Success Radio
President of TopLine Leadership, Inc., and author of the groundbreaking and sales transformational book Slow Down, Sell Faster! Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales, Kevin Davis, describes how fast sales presentations don't lead to more sales. He recommends slowing down to get in harmony with the customer's buying process. Kevin Davis points out that customers don't care about your sales process. Instead, they care about their own buying process, and their concerns usually don't match how most salespeople sell. The good news is is that that Kevin Davis and his eight-step method slows down the process, asks more questions, identifies the real needs, and supplies real solutions. Learn how people really buy to increase your sales.
Kevin Davis is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Tuesday, June 28, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
President of TopLine Leadership, Inc., and author of the groundbreaking and sales transformational book Slow Down, Sell Faster! Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales, Kevin Davis, describes how fast sales presentations don't lead to more sales. You will learn:
* Why faster sales presentations don't lead to more sales
* Why a focus on the buyer rather than the seller is critical to more sales
* How to determine the type of buyer to match the sale with the buyer's own process
* How to create more sales by slowing down the sales presentation and sales process
Kevin Davis (photo left) s the president of TopLine Leadership, Inc., a leading sales and sales management training company serving clients from diverse sectors. TopLine Leadership, Inc. shows companies how to dramatically increase top line revenue growth by implementing a consistent sales process based on a deep understanding of how customers buy.
Kevin has more than 30 years of experience in every aspect of sales, sales management, and sales training. Early in his career, Kevin was a sales representative, account executive, sales manager, and district general manager during a distinguished career with Lanier Worldwide, a Fortune 200 company. Frustrated with the lack of customer focus on most sales approaches at the time, he founded his own company in 1989. Since then, Kevin has delivered sales and management/leadership training to tens of thousands of tenured salespeople and sales managers.
Kevin has a second book, Slow Down, Sell Faster! Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales that breaks one of the most entrenched myths of selling: that a faster sales pitch leads to a faster close. It follows in the path of his first book, Getting Into Your Customer's Head: 8 Secret Roles of Selling Your Competitors Don't Know, which was selected one of the top 30 business books of 1996 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries.
My book review of Slow Down, Sell Faster! Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales by Kevin Davis.
My written Q and A author interview with Kevin Davis.
Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with President of TopLine Leadership, Inc., and author of the groundbreaking and sales transformational book Slow Down, Sell Faster! Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales, Kevin Davis, as he describes how fast sales presentations don't lead to more sales. He recommends slowing down to get in harmony with the customer's buying process. Kevin Davis points out that customers don't care about your sales process. Instead, they care about their own buying process, and their concerns usually don't match how most salespeople sell. The good news is is that that Kevin Davis and his eight-step method slows down the process, asks more questions, identifies the real needs, and supplies real solutions. Learn how people really buy to increase your sales on Blog Business Success Radio.
Tags: Slow Down, Sell Faster! Understand Your Customer's Buying Process and Maximize Your Sales, Kevin Davis, enhanced sales techniques, Blog Business Success, Blog Talk Radio.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Who Will Drive the Bus? by Gerard J. Donnellan - Book review
Who Will Drive the Bus?
Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise
By: Gerard J. Donnellan, Ph.D.
Published: April 2, 2011
Format: Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1456379909
ISBN-13: 978-1456379902
Publisher: CreateSpace
"This book is meant for all those family businesses currently dealing with or about to deal with major transitions in the leadership of their firms", writes family business adviser, psychologist, and president and founder of Big Leap, Gerard J. Donnellan, Ph.D., in his very practical and engaging book Who Will Drive the Bus? Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise. The author describes how to create an effective strategic plan, for the successful transfer of leadership in a family firm, from one generation to the next.
Gerard Donnellan understands the critical importance of a smooth inter-family transition to the short and long term viability of a family owned and operated business. Because family owned businesses are confronted with challenges of change on a daily basis, it's crucial for the company reach a level of sustained stability. The author focuses on the vital role of a well planned and successful leadership transition strategy for the family owned enterprise. For many entrepreneurs, the realization and admission that a transfer of business leadership is a difficult one, fraught with challenging family dynamics, personality issues, and very often a lack of trust in the next generation. Gerard Donnellan guides family businesses in achieving a successful leadership transition, that maintains family harmony, and avoids the all too frequent and tragic ending of the company after only one generation.
Gerard J. Donnellan (photo left) recognizes that many successful business founders are reluctant, for various reasons, to even consider examining business succession issues. At the same time, the author points to the importance for business owners to embrace the idea of a leadership transition as an ongoing and long term issue. Gerard Donnellan presents a very comprehensive outline of potential strategies, that respect the wide range of business and family cultures involved, and honors the overall long term goals for the company. Succession plans are essential for any business, and as the author makes very clear, that without careful preparation and planning the business could cease to exist in a very short time. Gerard Donnellan guides the family members through the planning and preparation process, open discussion, the benefits of outside coaches, and the development of leadership within the family itself. The author helps the family business begin and continue the transitional process, and to avoid the mistakes of doing nothing, not establishing priorities, and not having a plan in place that addresses the business and family priorities.
For me, the power of the book is how Gerard Donnellan presents a logical, and action oriented series of ideas for developing leaders for the generational transition of family businesses. The author combines practical leadership development skills with a rich understanding of the family dynamics involved in the discussions, planning, and preparation for the business transfer. Along with the actionable advice for a smooth transition of leadership, Gerard Donnellan provides a series of stories that illustrate the many complex and often emotional issues that surround family business transition.
Gerard Donnellan demonstrates that transfer of leadership roles need not be a disaster for both the business and for family members. Instead, the preparation for a successful transfer can be a time of bringing new ideas into the company, ensuring a thriving long term business, and even strengthened and deepened relationships within the family itself.
I highly recommend the approachable and essential book Who Will Drive the Bus? Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise by Gerard J. Donnellan, Ph.D., to anyone who owns a family business, who is part of the future leadership of that enterprise, or who is an adviser to family businesses, who seeks a deeper understanding of how to prepare founders and family members for the inevitable leadership transfer. This book is an excellent guide to understanding and working to solve the most common issues and problems that arise in the family business transition. The author shines the spotlight on developing future leaders as a solution to the transfer dilemma.
Read the valuable and insightful book Who Will Drive the Bus? Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise by Gerard J. Donnellan, Ph.D., and discover how to ease and improve the inter-generational transition of any family small business. With family owned companies forming the backbone of the economy, this book is both timely and crucial for both individual family enterprises and for the economy as a whole.
Tags: Who Will Drive the Bus? Guidance for Developing Leaders in the Family Enterprise, Gerard J. Donnellan, Ph.D., inter-generational business transition, business book reviews.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast by Michael V. Pantalon - Book review
Instant Influence
How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast
By: Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D.
Published: May 9, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0316083348
ISBN-13: 978-0316083348
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
"Instant Influence is the only scientifically proven method for motivating people in seven minutes or less. It gets people to take action by encouraging them to find their own reasons for doing what you are asking of them", by motivational coach, consultant, therapist, and faculty member at Yale School of Medicine, Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D., in his transformational and inspirational book Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast. The author describes how to overcome resistance ti help people change their behavior for their own reasons.
Michael Panatlon understands that people will not make changes in their lives, actions, or behavior because someone else tells them to change. Instead, they will push back with even more resistance and refusal to alter their behavior. The author turns that problem upside down with the Instant Influence technique. Instead of telling people why they should change, the concept helps people to discover their own reasons for taking action, even for something they didn't want to do at all. Michael Panatalon demonstrates how to ask people why they might like to make changes, resulting in effective and lasting improvement in their work or lives, for reasons of their own. As the author makes clear, people do things in life for their own reasons, and not for those recommended or demanded by other people.
Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D. (photo left) recognizes that people act for their own reasons. As a result, the author suggests that the influencing person reinforce the other person's autonomy. This preparation gives the person needing the change the inner motivation to uncover their own reasons for fresh behavior. Autonomy forms the foundation of the first Instant Influence principles:
* No one absolutely has to do anything; the choice is always yours
* Everyone already has enough motivation
With the autonomy recognized and respected by the influencing individual, the six steps of the Instant Influence process can be utilized to facilitate change. The six questions to be asked of the influencee are:
* Why might you change?
* How ready are you to change on a scale of 1 to 10?
* Why didn't you pick a lower number?
* Imagine you have changed. What would the positive outcomes be?
* Why are those outcomes important to you?
* Whats the next step, if any?
For me, the power of the book is how Michael Pantalon presents the concept of Instant Influence in an easy to understand and actionable format. Along with the exercises and step by step lessons for putting the techniques into practice, are some realistic dialogues that illustrate how the process works, and how people's resistance evolves their own reasons for change. Perhaps, even more importantly, the author shows real respect for the autonomy and self esteem of the person making the changes within themselves.
This important empathy for personal dignity, and individual right to choose one's own outcomes, is an integral part of the entire Instant Influence process. Helping others make their own choices, and changes on their own terms, is more lasting and effective than any forced change. At the same time, people are genuinely empowered to make their own decisions on how and why they seek to make changes in their own behavior. The author presents the value of the process for working with people at home and work, but also shares additional methods for achieving behavioral change in strangers.
I highly recommend the empowering and real change facilitating book Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast by Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D., to anyone seeking to utilize these effective change creating techniques to help others improve their lives. This concept requires only seven minutes to achieve positive results, making it not only effective, but time saving as well. Th ease of use makes the system much more likely to be embraced, and its real benefits put into action.
Read the empowering and very practical book Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast by Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D., and put these life changing concepts into practice in improving your life, and the lives of others. Whether the behavioral change is needed in the workplace, at home, or in encounters with strangers, this book provides the strategies necessary to motivate anyone to create a better life for themselves and other people.
Tags: Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast, Michael V. Pantalon, Ph.D., overcoming personal obstacles, business book reviews.
Prosecuting The Public
By Jim Kirwan
6-22-11
Rochester Woman Arrested After Videotaping Police From Her Own Front Yard
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/emily-good-arrested-videotaping-police-rochester_n_882122.html
NEW YORK -- In May, the Rochester Police Department arrested a woman on a charge of obstructing governmental administration after she videotaped several officers' search of a man's car. The charge is a criminal misdemeanor.
The only problem? Videotaping a police officer in public view is perfectly legal in New York state -- and the woman was in her own front yard. The arrest report of the incident also contains an apparent discrepancy from what is seen in the woman's own video.
That video, uploaded to the Internet this week, more than a month after Emily Good's May 12 arrest, begins by showing a black male being questioned by a police officer at about 10 p.m. The red and blue flashes of a police cruiser illuminate the scene on Aldine Street.
"I just got out of the house, man, I'm sick, man," the man who has been pulled over says. Other police officers search his car.
Then one of the officers, identified as Mario Masic in the arrest report, turns to the camera and asks, "You guys need something?"
"I'm just -- this is my front yard -- I'm just recording what you're doing. It's my right," Good replies.
"Actually, not from the sidewalk," the officer replies, incorrect about the legality of Good's actions.
"This is my yard," Good says.
"I don't feel safe with you standing behind me so I'm going to ask you go into your house, you understand?" Masic says.
From there, the conversation escalates into a confrontation, with Masic alleging that Good is threatening his safety, and that she expressed other, unspecified anti-police statements before the videotaping began.
"Due to what you said to me, before you started taping, I think, uh, you need to go stay in your house, guys."
Good's public defender, Stephanie Stare, told HuffPost she believes from her conversations with several neighbors who were present that Good made no threatening comments before the tape begins.
Ryan Acuff, a friend of Good's who witnessed the exchange and picked up the video camera after she was arrested, agreed.
"None of us was talking to them until they came to us," Acuff said. "The first contact was definitely on tape."
For more than a minute of the video, the officer and Good argue about whether she is threatening his safety. Finally, it appears, Masic has had enough: "You know what, you're gonna go to jail. That's just not right."
Acuff claimed that he and Good were complying with the policeman's order to return to their porch when she was arrested.
"The real reason they arrested her was because she was videotaping," Acuff said. Both he and Good are activists who have previously protested foreclosures in the area.
Acuff has posted his own account of the arrest on Indymedia. He said he and Good were videotaping the traffic stop out of concern about police misconduct.
The police report of the arrest contains another apparent discrepancy from what appears on the video: Masic writes that the traffic stop targeted three individuals who "were all chalkem south gang members."
"This gang is known for drugs guns and violence," Masic notes, underscoring the danger of the situation.
The video, while dark, appears to only show one man led out of the car. Good's public defender says that as far as she has been able to determine, only one man was pulled over.
The Rochester Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a statement released to the press, Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard said that while he had "researched" the incident, "With the case still pending and my unfamiliarity with the specific details, any assumptions at this time would be premature."
The police department has launched an internal investigation.
Good is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, where her public defender hopes the case will be dismissed.
If that doesn't happen, Stare said, she was not afraid of bringing Good's case to a jury trial.
"She was well within her rights."
The U.S. Federal Reserve Plan For QE3 – And Why It's a Done Deal
Let me answer that for you: QE3 is a done deal - although Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke & Co. might well give it another name.
Let me explain ...
$2.3 Trillion ... And Counting
Since December 2008, when a worldwide credit crisis threatened to take down the global financial system, the U.S. Federal Reserve has had a starring role. It has held the benchmark Federal Funds rate at historic lows between zero and 0.25% to keep the U.S. economy from stalling. And it's pumped more than $2.3 trillion into the American financial system, mostly by purchasing securities on the open market.The key to these asset purchases has been two "quantitative easing" plans. The second of the two, known as "QE2," was a $600 billion initiative that was rolled out in November. It's supposed to wind down when the second quarter ends next week - which is what the Fed promised at the end of its last FOMC meeting in late April.
When the Fed's policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting breaks up at around noon today, pundits are expecting Team Bernanke to announce that it's holding rates steady, and is winding down QE2 as promised.
But I'm just not buying this.
But, even worse, it could tip the U.S. economy into a double-dip recession, ignite widespread layoffs and drive unemployment skyward, and hammer this country's standard of living - especially in households that didn't prepare for this eventuality.
So when Bernanke takes the podium for his press conference this afternoon (his second so far this year - the only two, in fact, ever held by a sitting Fed chairman), this one question is likely to be the first one that gets asked: "Mr. Bernanke, will you, or won't you, bring on QE3?
After all, the stimulus propped up the global financial markets once before, so why won't it work again ... or so goes the reasoning.
You can certainly understand the intense interest in this element of the current Federal Reserve plan for the American economy.
Here at home, U.S. stocks just concluded a six-week losing streak, and now face the so-called "summer doldrums." The American housing market seems to be getting worse. And inflationary pressures are building even as the U.S. economy appears to be slowing down - forcing investors to face the possibility that we'll see a double-dip recession that's infected with a virulent case of stagflation.
The overseas outlook isn't that much better. In the near term, the potential for a Greek debt default seems to soar one day and plummet the next and there seems to be a general belief that it's going to happen - the only question being when. And there are long-term issues, too, including the so-called "death" of nuclear power, which promises to cause energy prices to spike in the years to come.
So what about QE3?
Given this complicated backdrop, I think it's already baked in. The Fed just won't call it that. And I think they'll play a bit with the timing.
The Federal Reserve Plan for QE3
Here's what I see: Instead of printing more money, the Fed is likely to start reinvesting the proceeds of maturing debt. Ultimately, that won't reduce our government's bloated, toxic balance sheet. But it will change the makeup of that balance sheet - and not for the better.I believe the Fed will also attempt a freeze of some sorts that effectively removes pressure from the U.S. Treasury markets that would otherwise crater it.
At the same time, I can easily envision continued demand for U.S. Treasuries from abroad that will confound such well-known Treasury bears as Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO) star Bill Gross, who has been wrong on Treasuries before.
The European euro is in real trouble - and so are the institutional investors who have parked their money there. This, in turn, means that the so-called "PIIGS" of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain truly do run the barnyard - a fact that will help sustain U.S. Treasuries, as well.
As for the so-called "nuclear option" that is so popular on the late-night chat boards sponsored by card-carrying members of the tin foil hat club ... don't waste your time worrying about it. China can't dump U.S. dollars, and neither can Japan. Nor can either country dump U.S. Treasuries en masse. The reality is that there is simply not another alternative on the planet capable of absorbing the proceeds if they did so. So both nations are effectively stuck.
The final reason that I'm sure that QE3 is a done deal is, ironically, a political one. Despite the fact that so much is wrong with this country on so many levels, the fact is that we're heading into an election year and that means the status quo is likely to remain in place until the new guy reaches the White House. And the status quo speaks to the inevitable Federal Reserve Plan for QE3 - even though it's in the "stealth mode" that I'm predicting.
Be Free of Your Rights, Even Liberated From Life: Agenda 21 Comes Calling..
Activist Post
United Nations Agenda 21 – Blueprint to Advance Sustainable Development . . . doesn’t that sound nice? Who could be against sustainable development? Who doesn’t care deeply about mother Earth? Let’s save the world.
There’s a catch. Many catches, actually, at least 22 of them, but one is worst of all: The redundant theme in official documentation that human population must be reduced by 90%.
Development of this New World Order (NWO) plan for Dark Ages Redux has slithered along in plain sight (for those who look) since 1987. But in the Obama Show, it’s coiled and hissing.
Indispensable allies of the NWO are distraction, numbing, and dumbing-down of the mass American mind (MAM). For many people the Georgia Guidestones fundamentally convey the Ten Commandments of the NWO. Superficially fuzzy and warm, and smarmy to the core, the “commandments” do a reasonable job of cloaking the venom contained within. (1) And there’s the massive concrete tombs in Arizona and California as well.
Agenda 21 is swaddled in euphemisms so warm and fuzzy that few Americans seem concerned about its fangs. In the simplest terms, Agenda 21 means total centralized global control over human life. No rights of property ownership . . . no rights at all. And exactly how 90% of the population will be liberated from life is rather hazy; the only clear aspect is that it must happen.
Caskets stockpiled in growing millions by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are nothing to be ignored . . . though somehow, they almost are being ignored. With the Agenda 21 “blueprint” unfolding so matter-of-factly in broad daylight, that seems unbelievable...unless you consider crucial things about what the MAM tends to prefer to see....
In the most general terms at least, it could be said that Large minds think about ideas; Medium minds think about events; Small minds think about people. Or, a slightly different angle might suggest that Large minds think about solutions to problems while Medium minds mire in problems themselves, and Small minds watch TV and play with their gadgets.
On the basis of these generalities, things are not looking at all sizeable in terms of the MAM. Current mainstream obsession with things that congressmen do with their weiners is bad enough. Perhaps even worse is the apparent newsworthiness of the Wasilla loose moose, Alaskan reload mama and her Rolling Blunder East Coast bus tour. You know, where Paul Revere is Yosemite Sam in disguise...ring-a-ding-ding(bat)—KaPow! KaPow! KaPow! Back off, Redcoats! Hardly good indicators.
Damn embarrassing, actually.
The gravity of Agenda 21 makes it hard to write about without sounding alarmist, or eliciting groans and shouts of "conspiracy theory." But NWO alpha psychopaths are obsessed with power; ultimate power concentration, centralized control over all aspects of human life, mass murder . . . such is the grit behind the silky euphemisms like “Sustainable Development”, and the decoys, “Save the Earth” and “Green”! Agenda 21 warrants about a million times more public scrutiny than it seems to be getting; I hope to encourage more people to become aware of the program.
Of course it’s much easier to hide behind, “Oh, they’d never do that!” or shout “conspiracy theory!” or to simply play dumb . . . or be, dumb. But I think many Americans might be surprised, even shocked to know how far this thing has progressed, and they might be glad to read about it in the UN’s own doublespeak.
Again, specifics regarding how billions of people are going to be liberated from life never surface, but it doesn’t take much looking around to see what profound help the NWO has in achieving its goals.
Consider Fukushima.
If you think the official reports even approach the actual severity of the ongoing catastrophe, well, that’s what mainstream corporate media (CorpoMedia) is for -- spreading official B.S. Perhaps the most important thing CorpoMedia teaches us is, as W.C. Fields liked to say, “There comes a time in the affairs of man when we must take the bull by the tail, and face the situation.”
Fukushima is certainly, in the words of Dahr Jamail, the “Biggest industrial catastrophe in history.” It’s estimated that, with the three meltdowns, plus exposed “spent” fuel cores, the potential radiation release into the environment could be twenty times that of Chernobyl (Tokyo Electric Power Company officials have finally admitted to more radioactive release than Chernobyl, so imagine what has actually been released already). Almost 1000 square kilometers near Fukushima have been rendered uninhabitable, effectively forever. Some scientists warn that the whole country may become uninhabitable. Mutant rabbits and radioactive whales are already being reported.
It’s been estimated that, following the explosions at Fukushima, the average person in Seattle was inhaling ten “hot particles” per day. It really only takes one hot particle shooting bullets at the chromosomes of nearby cells to sooner or later cause cancer.
At the same time there’s been a 35% spike in infant mortality in such cities as Portland, Boise, San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, and Seattle. As far as being an ally of Agenda 21 population reductions . . . Fukushima is a gift that will just keep on giving, forever. And Fukushima has numerous partners in death.
So many major threats to life on Earth now simmer that a comprehensive listing is challenging. Seems any decent list should also mention that Hydra, Monsanto, and threats to global food supply posed by their genetically modified organisms (GMOs). That’s right, Frankenfoods. Most of us eat them every day and don’t even know . . . yet.
Also on the list . . . the next stage of global economic collapse, originally set in motion by such “high-finance” parasites as Goldman Sachs, that “...great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” (thank you for the realism, Matt Taibbi, and Rolling Stone). And there’s the endless, expanding and accelerating imperial wars for dwindling resources—contained therein the hideously biocidal use of “depleted” uranium munitions (DU). Check out the explosion of birth defects especially around Fallujah since we gave freedom to the Iraqis. Remember “OIL” (Operation Iraqi Liberation)?
Deadly piles of nuclear waste around the country are a mountainous safe disposal problem—but lucky US! “Depleted” uranium not only makes superior armor-penetrating projectiles, but we’ve dented the disposal problem by shooting DU weapons all over areas inhabited by people we aim to liberate, and relieve of their resources. Two birds with one stone.
Clash of religions, staged “revolutions”, vaccines and designer diseases, dumbing-down of populations . . . Agenda 21 is amassing many allies; might we call these death apparatuses “the coalition of the willing”? Or is that term under patent?
A potential new member of the coalition is the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant about twenty minutes from downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Record flooding of the Missouri River caused “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of the plant’s spent fuel pools on June 7. Apparently a “Level 4” emergency ensued—which would make it one of the worst nuclear accidents in US history. A fire at the plant prompted the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to declare a “no-fly ban” over the area. Sadly, current information regarding the "event" is sketchy since the Obama Show appears to have ordered a “total and complete” news blackout on the situation. Hardly a peep from CorpoMedia on this one, so far.
Tying the concept of environmentalism to this whole NWO agenda from hell seems preposterous enough, since realistically, Agenda 21 is about as far from true environmentalism as anything could possibly be. So, enriching the very concept of preposterous in classic NWO style would take something as shocking as . . . let’s say, the primary devotees of Agenda 21 being the same psychopaths that annihilate the biosphere for profit more savagely every day—nothing less diabolical would do.
Well, they did it, gave the very term preposterous fabulous new scope—YES, the psychopaths routinely profiting their way toward ruining the biosphere are top trumpeters of Agenda 21! Yet, astonishing as it may seem, “Oh, they’d never do that” peals, if not loudly, plenty clearly from the MAM. Rather reminiscent of 9/11....
Indeed, the same power-mad alpha reptiles most responsible for our DEAD END fossil fuel economy are the teeth, scales and claws behind “Save the Planet!” Agenda 21. Their maniacal consumption of resources, especially energy, cannot be maintained with so many people on their (the “elite’s”) planet competing for their resources. Only a liberation from life of 90% of the human population can safely preserve elite comfort zones. You know, those sprawling “gated communities” (secured compounds) sprinkled with golf courses and castles that seem the main nests for vulgar amounts of private jet and helicopter traffic. Appetite for actually healthy food, pure water, and elite-only consumables often demands more than cumbersome things like trucking. And of course the overclass is bursting with places to go, things to see and exploit.
Takes obscene amounts of starvation, polluted water, disease and liberation from life to support just one billionaire. Disgusting lengths of people misery. But, on the other hand, how could mere people ever relate to the suffering and despair upper millionaires endure over being less than a billionaire?
Something has to give. Sure looks like it won’t be elite comfort zones. But frankly, the elite are behaving . . . scheming, manipulating, destroying the competition—they’re doing exactly what they always have and always will. No surprise here whatsoever. Psychopaths have no conscience, no “humanity”, only will to power. What is a surprise, though -- maybe it shouldn’t be -- is that we people outnumber them nearly a million to one, but we won’t wake up and smell the tyranny. The ultimate power is ours, yet they are ready to liberate from life 9 out of 10 of us primarily to perpetuate their pathetic and regressive comfort zones (humans should evolve, not devolve) . . . and through it all the MAM is sleeping.
The difference between what humans are capable of with visionary leadership, and the feudal, regressive, power-blinded ends hammered home by our entrenched pathocracy seem symbolic of heaven, and hell.
Rand Clifford lives in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and the intellectual Chesapeake bay retriever, Mink. Rand and Mary Ann kicked television many years ago, and recommend others try it...a good way to help live life instead of watching moneypower's version of life. Reading is best for the mind. Four of Rand's novels, Castling, Timing, Priest Lake Cathedral, and Voices of Vires are published by StarChief Press, and will soon be available as e-books.
Pentagon gets cyberwar guidelines (Waves at the Navy watching blog in Cali)
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
David Fraser: Relationships Made Easy - Blog Business Success Radio
Entrepreneur, project manager, Certified Engineer, and author of the insightful and inspirational book Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else, Dr. David Fraser, describes how so much in life depends on how well we get along with other people. David points out that the good news is that this is a skill that can be learned by everyone. He shares the step by step techniques for improving interpersonal relationships at home and at work. The methods presented by David Fraser also help with conflict resolution, increase personal confidence, enhance networking ability, and increase success levels. Learn how to get along with people in every social or business context.
Dr. David Fraser is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, June 23, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Entrepreneur, project manager, Certified Engineer, and author of the insightful and inspirational book Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else, Dr. David Fraser, describes how so much in life depends on how well we get along with other people. You will learn:
* Why getting along with others is so critical to personal and business success
* How to know if your personal interaction skills are not as effective as you would like
* How to improve your own social interaction ability
* How to assess your own personal interaction skill level
Dr. David Fraser (photo left) pioneers new approaches to old problems. One such focus is our ability to relate successfully to each other, whether at work, at home or anywhere else. Some attention to this often neglected area can turn out to be a life-changing experience, as it was for David himself and is regularly for his clients. David has continued his study of this field over a number of years and through the highs and lows of professional and personal life.
David’s background is as a professional engineering manager and he has delivered major projects for government and private sector clients in complex and challenging situations and set up a number of entrepreneurial ventures. He is a company director and Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours degree and a PhD from Glasgow University and an MBA from Strathclyde University. He is a qualified commercial mediator and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner and has trained with leading proponents of these disciplines.
David applies his unusual blend of expertise as a project manager and relationship skills specialist to support disparate groups working together in complex circumstances, including major collaborative projects and matters of national importance. He has also found the approach set out in his book Relationships Made Easy for the Business Professional to be extremely helpful in his home and family environment. David runs workshop and coaching programs for both organizations and individuals, both on-line and off-line.
With his breadth of knowledge, an engineer’s talent for organizing systematic and reliable solutions, and an ability to write and speak in an interesting, direct, and approachable way, David is well positioned to address the age-old problem of how to build effective relationships with other people.
David frequently contributes to print media, blogs and live radio.
David lives with his wife and three children in Glasgow, Scotland. When time permits, he sails among the islands of the West Coast of Scotland.
My book review of Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else by Dr. David Fraser.
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
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Let's talk with entrepreneur, project manager, Certified Engineer, and author of the insightful and inspirational book Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else, Dr. David Fraser, as he describes how so much in life depends on how well we get along with other people. David points out that the good news is that this is a skill that can be learned by everyone. He shares the step by step techniques for improving interpersonal relationships at home and at work. The methods presented by David Fraser also help with conflict resolution, increase personal confidence, enhance networking ability, and increase success levels. Learn how to get along with people in every social or business context on Blog Business Success Radio.
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Relationships Made Easy by David Fraser - Book review
Relationships Made Easy
How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else
By: Dr. David Fraser
Published April 8, 2010
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1906316538
ISBN-13: 978-1906316532
Publisher: Hothive Publishing
"Most of us could have much more success and happiness at work and in our personal lives if we paid a bit more attention to the skills we use in our relationships and the state of mind we bring to them", writes change agent, broadcaster on business and personal relationships, and engineer Dr. David Fraser, in his insightful and inspirational book Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else. The author describes the career, business, and life benefits to improving interpersonal relationships, and shares practical techniques and exercises that anyone can use to change their lives for the better.
David Fraser understands the critical importance that being able to get along well with others plays in a person's professional and everyday lives. The author points out that the individual who is confident in their ability to work well with other people has a distinct career advantage over someone who struggles with developing good rapport with people. Not only is the better relationship builder more likely to have more friends and colleagues, but will also be a better manager and leader of people in all aspects of their professional careers. David Fraser offers refreshing hope for people who struggle with developing either close personal or strong professional relationships in the form of ready to apply techniques for transforming personal attitudes and behavior.
Dr. David Fraser (photo left) recognizes that all too often, people who fail to establish good relationships with others fail to understand their own attitudes and self control. This lack of self-awareness often manifests itself in the way others are approached, in the choice of language and tone, and a lack of understanding of how others see themselves. This self-awareness deficit manifests itself further when failure to develop good relationships leads to a loss of confidence. A vicious cycle ensues that continues the behavioral problems throughout the individual's personal or professional lives. As an engineer, David Fraser compares the lack of action to improve the ability to develop good interpersonal relationships with entropy. Any system will deteriorate and wind down unless it receives a fresh boost of energy. Relationships at work and at home are no different from other systems. This book provides that additional boost of energy to renew an individual's interpersonal relationship building skills.
For me, the power of the book is how David Fraser combines a deep understanding of the importance of developing and maintaining good interpersonal relationships, with a very useful series of steps, for enhancing a person's relationship building skills. The author presents the concepts in a logical, and easy to learn format. The techniques are established in each chapter through a rationale for their inclusion, and the steps necessary to achieve success in putting them into practice. Along with the external strategies to apply when interacting with other people, in both personal and public life, the author includes critical self examination exercises to change one's own attitudes and behaviors. This two pronged approach, that is both internal and external, provides a rich and dynamic dimension to the author's concepts and overall approach.
I highly recommend the transformational and career boosting book Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else by Dr. David Fraser, to anyone who is serious about developing, maintaining, or improving their ability to get along with other people in any social or professional setting. This book will not only cause real change in how a person relates to other people, but will also create a transformation in the individual themselves.
Read the social interaction improving and very practical book Relationships Made Easy: How to get on with the people you need to get on with...and stay friends with everyone else by Dr. David Fraser, and become better at developing your social skills, and the confidence to use them well. This book will cause your career to skyrocket, help you resolve more conflicts, and live a fuller and richer life in every way.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Beverly Macy & Teri Thompson: THe Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing - Blog Business Success Radio
CEO and Co-founder of Gravity Summit, Beverly Macy, and President of Rocky Peak Enterprises, LLC., Teri Thompson, the co-authors of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World describe how to use sophisticated social media interaction with customers to build your brand. The authors share how Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other free social media tools are changing the way that customers and brands share conversation and feedback. The authors point to the success of both non-profit organizations and major brands in enhancing their online marketing by embracing social media. Instead of simply broadcasting a controlled message, these successful brands and causes listened, conversed, and built relationships, Learn how to use social media the right way to strengthen your organization, company, and brands.
Beverly Macy and Teri Thompson are my internet radio show guests on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Tuesday, June 21, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
CEO and Co-founder of Gravity Summit, Beverly Macy, and President of Rocky Peak Enterprises, LLC., Teri Thompson, the co-authors of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World describe how to use sophisticated social media interaction with customers to build your brand. You will learn:
* What the real-time web means for social media and brands
* How to create an effective and flexible social media marketing strategy
* How to measure social media effectiveness in the real-time web context
* What the future holds for social media and the real-time web
Beverly Macy (photo left) is a unique thought-leader in the new “real-time” web. Beverly Macy draws on her experience as author, educator and expert on social media marketing to help businesses, brands and individuals leverage social media’s speed to create buzz, strengthen brands, listen to customers and effectively measure results.
Beverly is the co-author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World, a critical new business book for understanding social media to strengthen a start-up or redefine an existing brand, listen to what your customers think, need, and want, and effectively measure your efforts. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Gravity Summit, the premier series of social media marketing conferences that educate, inform and empower businesses and organizations with these new communications tools.
Gravity Summit’s mission to educate is also the foundation of Beverly’s role as teacher of Executive Marketing courses for the UCLA Business and Management Extension program, where she was recognized as “Distinguished Instructor of 2010” by the dean of the program.
Beverly is also a respected professional speaker and consultant with senior executives on real-time social media marketing for global non-profits, leading government agencies and Fortune 500 such as Toyota, The Walt Disney Company, Xerox Corporation, United Healthcare, Qualcomm, and Boeing. Macy also spent 14 years at Xerox Corporation, where she received top honors for sales and marketing efforts.
Teri Thompson (photo left) is Creative Director - Marketing, Media and Innovations with Gravity Summit Consulting Services and President of Rocky Peak Enterprises, LLC specializing in new technology, entertainment, social media, and branding. She is also the co-author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World. Teri served on the Innovations team at Initiative Media/IPG where she scoured the globe for new platforms from 3-D interactive to electronic ink. She was Media Director for U2 Bono’s (RED) campaign with partners Apple, Converse, Motorola, Emporio Armani and Gap.
Teri has spent 25 years as a marketing executive at ABC, CBS, NBC, and launched Fox Sports Net. While at ABC she created the first on-line video game for a primetime series (”Alias”) with Executive Producer J.J. Abrams starring Jennifer Garner. She oversaw advertising for 210 CBS stations, promoted The Grammys and has created new media and sales campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. Her cutting-edge advertising has received many entertainment industry awards and been featured on national broadcast outlets.
My book review of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World by Beverly Macy and Teri Thompson.
Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for free download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
To call in questions for my guest, the number is: (347) 996-5832
Let's talk with CEO and Co-founder of Gravity Summit, Beverly Macy, and President of Rocky Peak Enterprises, LLC., Teri Thompson, the co-authors of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World, as they describe how to use sophisticated social media interaction with customers to build your brand. The authors share how Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other free social media tools are changing the way that customers and brands share conversation and feedback. The authors point to the success of both non-profit organizations and major brands in enhancing their online marketing by embracing social media. Instead of simply broadcasting a controlled message, these successful brands and causes listened, conversed, and built relationships, Learn how to use social media the right way to strengthen your organization, company, and brands on Blog Business Success Radio.
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