All Entries in the "Business and Management" Category
AAHSA & ABHOW Advocate Making Homes For Your Mother & Fathers
Get involved in aging- yours and others. Advocating, working, and serving in the industry for the aging is rewarding work and because I (Dr. Joel Martin, the one in the middle) am an aging Baby Boomer, there is a bit of a self-serving aspect to it. My sphere of influence is the ABHOW Corporate [...]
You may hate this message! But if you manage people read it anyway! Plz.
Dan Pink’s articles on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wired. He worked previously as Vice President Al Gore’s chief speechwriter from 1995-97, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (Source)
Recently Dan Pink gave this talk at TED. If you [...]
Creating New Jobs. Who Does This? The Good News.
True or false? “Small Business is What Creates Jobs”. Some of the hurdles that are placed on entrepreneurs are things like:
Loans: If you are starting a business that requires “blue collar” workers, which may be many people out of work these days, banks may not be keen on lending money for this type of enterprise. [...]
A Leader’s Clarity: Conviction, Perspective, Purpose, Vision
Words for leaders from Brian W. Kenney, Human Capital Performance Consultant, Austin, Texas: All successful leaders have a strongly held set of core beliefs and values that act as a lens through which they view the world around them. They have no doubts about the importance of these values and it is our value [...]
What Is A Human Being?
Perhaps this is an odd question because we think that the answer is self evident, like water is wet. What we’ve been told is that one of the elements that helps to distinguish human beings from most other creatures are the set of connectors in our brains called mirror neuron. Identifying this system in the [...]
Think Bold, Act Bolder
Thinking of bold ideas is no solution if they are not followed by bold actions. Imagine three birds sitting on a fence. Three decide to fly away. How many fly away? The answer? None. It takes more than deciding, it takes action. Actions speak louder than words.
Here is something I remind people about when I [...]
George Fraser: Networking Powerhouse
Networking works when you fully understand that there is inherent value in every human being and every human relationship regardless of title or position. Only when we mature enough to stop prejudging people as to their worthiness of our assistance can we truly give without expectation. When you give first, without expectation, you are networking [...]
Who Revived The Electric Car
Leadership in our view is void of dogma. Leadership is about cutting new paths. The Viewpoint of skeptics are firmly locked in a past that no longer exist.
Two Points! Coaching + Feedback.
Can you imagine learning how to ski without a teacher? Bowling and not knowing how many pins you knocked down? Flying a plane without any instruments? Being in the basketball playoffs without a coach and without knowing whether the ball was going into the hoop? How frustrating that would be!
Lebron needed to know that that [...]
Create Extraordinary Results in a Global Community
“If you can make it here you can make it anywhere” is an expression native NYers love and they may be right. New York City is dynamic, exciting, results-oriented, competitive, “gutsy and heartsy.”
Here’s exciting news for anyone who wants access to the technology for creating extraordinary results in a global economy (and who doesn’t these [...]
