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Got Inner Peace? 5 Ways To Get It NOW
Image Credit: paraveda.hubpages.com When we stop our thoughts, we stop the world. When we stop the world we experience peace and mental clarity. According to the research of Dr. Fred Luskin of Stanford...
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Network Better Than Bill Clinton: 6 Ways To Build Bonds Faster
Image Credit: teacher.scholastic.com Do you like networking? Me neither. I often want to run screaming from cocktail parties. Yet I do like people–they are endlessly fascinating. And this, my friends,...
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The #1 CEO Mistake That Will Kill Your Company
Image Credit: vannevar.blogspot.com Bob’s business was growing by a consistent 30% per year. Then it stopped. Two of his key sales people had left, followed by his VP of Marketing. A handful of his...
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Secrets of Silicon Valley’s Coolest Cultures: How To Get And Keep Top Talent
Image Credit: Onedayonejob.com What makes a company culture vibrant, high performing, sticky? 4 young CEOs know… and in 5 minutes you will too. Read on. You Don’t Need An MBA, You Need A GSD (Get Stuff...
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Are There Ninjas in YOUR Boardroom? How To Prevent Being Blindsided
Image Credit: Wikipedia, Hokusai sketches A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan who specialized in unorthodox warfare. The functions of the ninja included...
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If You Aren’t Social, You’ll Shrink: 10 Steps To Becoming a Social Business
Vala Afshar, CCO Enterasys As one of the fastest growing networking companies in high tech, Enterasys has produced 3 years of consecutive top-line year-over-year revenue growth, and a net promoter...
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Innovate Or Become Irrelevant: 4 Ways to Use Social Enterprising to Drive...
Image Credit: InnovationManagement.se “Social enterprising and engineering give us the ability to innovate using many minds instantly, as opposed to using a few highly versed experts with unavoidable...
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Sink or Swim: A New Leader’s Guide To the First 90 Days
Image Credit: recruiter.com There are about 350 new CEOs at the world’s largest public companies right now, with 102 new CEOs in North America alone. And Booz’s data shows that almost 90% of the new...
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Cash Out or Hold Out: Is It Time To Sell Your Company?
Image Credit: wdt.edu Are you slaving away, building a business with no plan or process or path to one day cash out? If so, I think I know why: 1) You’re so busy running your business you don’t have...
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Change: The Social Change Adoption Path
Image Credit: Copyright 2011 Christine Comaford Assoc, LLC Company Z, a financial services firm with nearly $100 million in annual revenue, was changing their business model. It was a big change—they...
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The 3 Reasons Great Companies Stop Growing–And The Solution
What Happens At Inflection Points - Copyright Christine Comaford Assoc 2012 Why do great companies stop growing? Is it a sales or product issue? Does a key market dematerialize? Nope. It’s much simpler...
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Hijack! How Your Brain Blocks Performance
So there you are, when suddenly you hear that song that reminds you of that person. And you’re emotionally hijacked—just like that. Good or bad, the song interacts with your neural net and triggers the...
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The New Social Leadership: Move From Fear To Freedom
When driven by fear, human beings generally go to one of three places: 1) They get stuck. 2) They solve problems that don’t exist. 3) They focus on the wrong problem—which is low...
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How To Hack Your Brain – Part I: Trumping Cultural Triggers
In my recent “Hijack” blog we explored how an individual gets triggered and how your brain blocks performance. Now let’s look at how entire cultures get triggered—and how to recover plus prevent this...
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Stop Reacting! Start Responding: How to Hack Your Brain Part 2
Image Credit: macsoda.com Can you shift your emotional state at will? Can you shift your team members’ too? Most of us can’t—when we get emotionally triggered we’re toast. Our train has left the...
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Top 4 Stupid Reasons CEOs Get Sued — Don’t Let These Happen To You
Image Credit: DealerComplianceConsultants.com CEOs get sued entirely too often, and often they ask for it. Over dinner in San Francisco with one of my favorite securities law firms, Qian & Nemecek...
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Rev Up Your Ho-Hum Employees: Use Neuroscience to Win the Talent War
Image Credit: logoquizanswers.biz A new survey by the American Management Association (AMA) suggests today’s leaders have little confidence that their employees have the skills to excel in a global...
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The 3 Things All Humans Crave–And How To Motivate Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Maslow was right. As you probably know, once we have food and shelter, but before we can seek self-actualization—the Smart State—we must feel safety, belonging and mattering. Without these three...
View ArticleYes You CAN Buy Happiness–And It’s Cheaper Than You Think
Happiness can indeed be bought. But there’s no storefront, no web site, no vendors or purchase orders required. And the wealth isn’t wired—but it is transferred. If you want happiness for an hour—take...
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Do You Rule With Claws and Teeth? Try Leading With Engagement Instead
Image Credit: lionguardians.wildlifedirect.org We all know that influencing by authority—by command & control—is out. Influencing by engaging and enrolling is in. Yet too many leaders still rule...
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