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

Global Upheaval: Take Change by the Hand Before it Grabs You by the Throat

A one-day participatory seminar in two parts tailored to your company or organization

What You Will Learn

You will examine huge worldwide changes impacting your operation and employees for better or worse. What difference do the following crises and upheavals make?

9 Ways Our Entire World is Changing

Industrialization of millions of people
Drought encompassing huge parts of the earth and the earth's people
The use of cell phones and internet technology virtually everywhere.
Climate change on a scale not seen since the twelfth century.
Political change.
Financial upheaval.
Population increase.
Energy crunch.
Food crunch (starvation along with inflation of food prices and a scarcity of food in the face of growing consumption).

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November 19, 2008 Posted by Dr. Larry Losoncy | Untagged | Comment (0)

Make Thanksgiving More About People Than Things

The original thanks givers did not make much distinction between thanking God for things and thanking God for one another. Remember, it was widely believed in the Puritan tradition that prosperity was a sign of God's favor, indeed of salvation from the jaws of Hell. Leadership in that tradition was also considered part of the divine order of things. Translation: do what the leader ordered.

Suggestion number one, therefore, is that you not get overly theological about Thanksgiving but simply make it more about people than things. People, not things, are your customers, your workers and your associates. Let the people you appreciate decide for themselves what they are thankful for and how they will go about giving God the credit - or not. It is worth noting that not everybody is thankful. Make the emphasis on what you are thankful for, namely those who are closest to you. And do not be tempted to act as though your leadership position

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November 13, 2008 Posted by Dr. Larry Losoncy | Untagged | Comment (0)

The VELOCITY of Money: Mattress Hoarding in a Reeling Economy

Definition of Velocity

The rate at which money circulates, changes hands, or turns over in an economy in a given period. Higher velocity means the same quantity of money is used for a greater number of transactions and is related to the demand for money. It is also called the velocity of circulation.

Simply put, velocity is the movement of money in the economic system. It is ESSENTIAL to the health and vitality of our system that the money moves. The faster the better. A healthy economy is one in which there is a lot of activity, with its citizens buying and selling goods and services. There are plenty of fancy equations and wordy theories for this, but it all comes down to "activity."

If, for example, in a very small economy, a farmer and a mechanic, with just $50 between them, buy goods and services from each other in just three transactions over the course of a year:

Mechanic buys $40 of corn from farmer.

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October 31, 2008 Posted by Jack Wilkinson, G.R.I. | Untagged | Comment (0)

There Are Leaders And Then There Are Leaders

Skill or character, which matters most?

When it comes to business leadership the question is false because the answer is that both matter. One without the other is a formula for disaster.

And then of course it also depends on what we mean by leadership. For example, in case of a fire somebody might lead others to safety through a burning smoke-filled building. A guide might lead people to where the fish are biting. An usher leads people to their seats. To follow another is to be led. Such leadership does not necessarily require all that much character or skill. In a burning building the first person to figure out where is the nearest exit will head for that exit. Others will follow: no skill and no character required. On the other hand, for a fire fighter to save people trapped in a fully involved structure there is required both skill and character. Of such stuff are heroes made and many of these heroes receive their commendation posthumously.

The ent

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October 31, 2008 Posted by Dr. Larry Losoncy | Untagged | Comment (0)

Book Reveals Red Flags for Businesses

Barring last week's reprieve by the Federal Trade Commission, more than 10 million small organizations nationwide would have been required to comply with the Red Flags Rule on November 1. The FTC announced that compliance will be delayed six months until May 1, 2009 because many businesses were not only unaware of the compliance date, but unaware of the Red Flags Rule. Dr. Joseph Campana, a privacy and information security consultant who focuses on helping small enterprises says "small businesses are generally uninformed when it comes to today's legal and ethical requirements to protect sensitive information. I wrote a do-it-yourself guide for small businesses to raise their awareness and show them how to come into compliance quickly and inexpensively."

New website

Please explore new website:

richardcampagna.org

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

October 19, 2008 Posted by Richard Campagna | Untagged | Comment (0)

Tips for Self Care in Communication

1. Recognize when you are in reaction, then

2. Know that you are in reaction, then

3. Take responsibility for your reaction, then

4. Pause, then

5. Pause, then

6. Pause some more, then

7. Ask yourself, “What do I need in this moment?”

8. Slow everything down

9. When you hear yourself criticizing or complaining about someone (including you), ask yourself, “What do I really want in this moment?”

10. Practice receiving

11. Practice gratitude

12. Trust your body—it’s designed to help you release stress (laughter, tears, shaking, blinking, sleep, exercise)

13. Breathe fully

14. Share eye contact with someone

15. Look out the window or step outside

16. Maintain a nurturing spiritual practice

17. Celebrate

18. Keep your dre

Working Smarter Not Harder

The status of our economy is on the minds of everyone. Most are wondering what to do and how to survive. Corporations and business owners are facing major challenges as economic pressures rise. Likewise, non financial personnel face the same challenges as they seek to become more productive and valuable to their companies.

Cost containment and cash control are keys to survival in these dire economic times. These are also critcal in times of prosperity but are doubly important in these economic times.

Now is the time to pursue a strategy of working smarter rather than harder. I don't mean to minimize the need to work harder during the economic crisis. I am suggesting the need to work smarter as well as harder is critical.

Working smarter places a premium on understanding new and improved tools , techniques methods and models to manage your business. In my sessions I emphasize how non financial mana

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October 17, 2008 Posted by Carl Young, MBA | Untagged | Comment (0)

Marketing Does Not a Leader Make

There is much to be learned about business leadership from politics. "The making of a president" might better be phrased as "the marketing of the president". Political campaigning for federal office has evolved from personal dialogue to the use of media to reach millions of people every day. Most of us will vote for candidates we have never met. In presidential elections more than eighty millions of us will vote based on our evaluation of somebody's character and capabilities for leading a nation of three hundred million people. We will not have the opportunity to do a job interview of the candidates. We will not have the results of pre-employment screening, letters of reference or prior performance reviews.

What we will have are impressions provided by a variety of media.

These impressions are generated with an eye towards marketing the candidate. They are carefully crafted pictures, speeches and messages designed to convince us

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October 16, 2008 Posted by Dr. Larry Losoncy | Untagged | Comment (0)

What is Personal Branding?

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 Beliefs, Representing those beliefs, staying in control of your brand (Autonomy), Networking your brand and Differentiating yourself from others. This is The B.R.A.N.D. System.

I will touch on each of the steps in future Blogs.

October 6, 2008 Posted by Tom Gosche | professional development, personal development, Branding, brand | Comment (0)