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Take Change by the Hand Before it Grabs You by the Throat

Larry Losoncy

ng>3 Big Benefits for You and Your Company

You will be equipped to make strategic changes to your business plan based upon employee needs, market forces, and cost analysis. The process, once initiated, can be replicated over and over, providing a reliable and quick method for staying current in this fast changing business climate. You will have a good ear to the ground as to how these changes are impacting employees and what can be done to assure employee retention and effectiveness.You will [...]

Make Thanksgiving More About People Than Things

Larry Losoncy

is from God.

Suggestion number two: consider serving or organizing dinner for some certain group of persons related to your business or your community, such are those who have retired from your company or those workers who live alone.

There was a beautiful custom for decades at one of the public golf courses in Tulsa, Oklahoma about Thanksgiving and Christmas. Each year the course professional would serve dinner to the old timers on these two days. Play was free to everyone on [...]

The VELOCITY of Money: Mattress Hoarding in a Reeling Economy

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Farmer spends $50 on tractor repair. Mechanic spends $10 on barn cats from farmer

$100 has changed hands in the span of a year, even though there is only $50 in this little economy. That $100 level is possible because each dollar was spent an average of twice a year, which is to say that the velocity was 2/year.

Velocity is, in fact, one of the greatest concerns in our current credit crisis. Specifically, the slowing of velocity. Credit is the fuel of an economy. The use of [...]

There Are Leaders And Then There Are Leaders

Larry Losoncy

ire world is now paying the price for the lack of character in high places in the world of finance. There has been an awesome display of skill on the part of those who are getting rich from leading large banks to ruin and on the part of those politicians and officials who allowed it to happen. But who would want them for neighbors? By the same token, most of us have suffered under bosses who lacked the skill and knowledge to be in charge but who insisted on giving orders. In some places such cha [...]

Book Reveals Red Flags for Businesses

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g>Privacy MakeOver, the first guide to help small businesses comply with state and federal laws including the Red Flags Rule, simplifies privacy best practices into four steps: (1) assessing risks, (2) adapting documentation, (3) educating employees and (4) periodic review to attain safe harbor--a defensive legal concept to help protect the business from liability and penalties should information be compromised.

Thousands of dollars worth of compliance documentation, which can be easily ad [...]

New website

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Please explore new website:

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These are challenging times and require bold new approaches and ideas with respect to every aspect of our existence

Tips for Self Care in Communication

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Working Smarter Not Harder

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gers can equip themselves with these tools and techniques to enhance their productivity and value to their company which may lead to improved job security. A real key in these economic times.

If you are looking to improve your focus and understanding of finance and accounting, I suggest you look at the course session I have listed on this site. I guarantee it will add value to your learning process and make you a much more valuable employee that is able to work smarter rather t [...]

Marketing Does Not a Leader Make

Larry Losoncy

that the candidate is honest, capable, talented, successful, personable, good with people, wise, decisive, motivational, loyal, good at communicating and team building and so on and so forth: in other words, everything anyone could ever want in the most wonderful of all leaders.

The candidate is "made real" to us without our ever having met, talked with or observed him or her except through the lens of a camera, the filter of a recording, a printed report, a picture or a televisi [...]

What is Personal Branding?

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Personal Branding is YOU!

What do people think about, when they think about YOU? Your qualities and charactoristics are what people have in mind when they think about you. These could be good OR bad qualities.

You need to develop your brand as positive, giving, and professional before others brand you. You can imagine the branding of a steer and what that must feel like.

I organized developing your personal brand into a 5 step system of recognizing and developing your Beli [...]

THE GREATER FOOL JUST LEFT TOWN: Evolution of A Cash Crisis

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However, there is another way this can work. The bank or S&L, as the primary lender, can sell the loan in the secondary market, thus getting its capital back and funding another loan, and earning the fees attendant to the process. The circulation is widened and the lender can make money on both the interest spread and the fees charged. It is a good system and works well.

In the 1980's, when the RTC (Resolution Trust Company) was charged with selling all of the property it had take [...]

Too Efficient For Our Own Good

Larry Losoncy

success for those who have and those who have not is always there: those who have can become selfish and those who have not can become hateful. There is nothing new under the sun. Greed is a killer.

The current financial crisis highlights what has been happening in our country for a long time. People are stressed about money and all that goes with having money such as jobs, health care, homes and education. Greed and hate are on the rise.

You who own, lead, or manage com [...]

Existentialism, Libertarianism and Judicial Realism

Butchito

I continue on the road doing book signing sessions, teaching in more traditional classroom settings and conducting seminars integrating the three above-mentioned approaches into all of my work. From my viewpoint, these three philosophies and theories best explain the economic, political, legal and cultural milieu in which we find ourselves.

They tend to bring a spiritual optimism to my audiences, particularly the under "30" crowd. &n [...]

8 Qualities of Good Leadership or What it Takes to Cut the Mustard

Larry Losoncy

to achieve it.

Realistic

There is only one way for a leader to be realistic, and that is to be a good listener, a good observer, a person who puts high value on hearing both good news and bad.

Determined

No one wants to follow a Wishy-Washy!

Principled

Some people refer to principles as what makes us tick. Without core convictions the person in a leadership position will be overly influenced by a need to be accepted, popular or affirmed. One example of how thi [...]

Managing Stress Comes Naturally

Larry Losoncy

r loved ones or the doctor or an attorney. The denial of death in order to live each day is not total and airtight, but rather it is just enough to do this day well: very practical and efficient, this denial mechanism.

Managing the many other stresses that come to all of us each day simply follows the pattern already in place regarding the denial of death: focusing, compartmentalizing and being in the present moment. So why is it so difficult to manage stress? Because we have so many [...]

What are your Strengths?

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ffee house. She arranged all the appointments via email (Sending the same email to multiple people, but with different time choices.) She found she closed more sales and really enjoyed herself more.

It is ok to recognize any weaknesses and team up with others who have that as strength. Then you are bringing out the best in others. You usually end up helping them out as well, because their weaknesses are usually your strengths. I asked that same client to find part-time help to make t [...]

Adapt the Game Plan When Getting Beat

Larry Losoncy

a sea change underway all across the world, if we can let ourselves hear it. Some of the components, each mammoth in their own way but also contributing to global change on a scale unlike any others include:

Industrialization of several billion people.Drought encompassing huge parts of the earth and the earth's people.Instant communication as cell phones and internet technology spread virtually everywhere. Climate change on a scale not seen since the twelfth century.Political change.Finan [...]

Building Business Relationships

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orefront of their minds through friendly reminders, newsletters, and thoughtful gifts.

Continue to study your business and keep abreast of what your potential competitors are doing. Keep your products and services up to date, utilizing the most current and cutting edge knowledge, training, technology, and leadership styles.

Remain flexible and open to the possibility for change - of product, services, attitude, delivery - whatever is needed to keep up wit [...]

Leverage and Liquidity: A Simple Comparison in the Post-Bubble Real Estate Market

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ime to buy? A bad time to sell? Is real estate even worthy of investment consideration? There are many people saying that it is over for real estate and one should invest in liquid assets, such as gold.

I put real estate and gold in the same class of investing, in that they are both hard assets and reflective of value. In 1980 gold went to $850 per ounce. Then it dropped to $260 an ounce. Now it is close to $900 per ounce. Will it stay there? I rea [...]

Executive Leadership Worry Is a Three Dimensional Art

Larry Losoncy

is nothing we can do about the past or the future. Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. So why waste all that effort? Sufficient for the day are the trials thereof.

Executive leaders, to be any good to their companies and organizations, must indeed worry about the past and the future, not just the present. The company track record is vital for good credit. How that past is documented, protected and presented is a vital dimension of good business. The company's safety recor [...]