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People Skills - Two Areas To Develop For Networking

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Leaders, Consultants, Coaches, Strategic Planners and Entrepreneurs - Your interpersonal skills (i.e., your ability to deal with others in various circumstances and contexts) and the broadness (breadth) of your knowledge base (your ability to speak about and identify with people across a vast spectrum of diverse interests) are a great deal more important than your technical skills or your native business acumen . You must become a student (and eventually a master) at behavioral psychology (everyone you deal with will have emotional issues that you will have to either address head-on or to navigate around), and you must not be too specialized or captively focused in a narrow field of work or study , because you will be unable to relate to or converse with the larger network of people -- potential contacts, clients and friends -- that surrounds you. If you are too narrowly-focused, you tend to isolate yourself from many business and social opportunities for self-growth, professional...

Creativity: Unlimited and Unleashed - But From Where?

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" Creativity is the spark which ignites and incites innovation, entrepreneurship, invention, scientific and social breakthroughs, the creation of great works and all of society's progress. To find the wellspring of creativity and to be able to access it at will is every thinker's dream ." DC Where do brilliant ideas come from? Those ideas which produce insights, breakthroughs and inspiration for inventors, entrepreneurs and leaders? For great Mathematicians and scientists? For Artists? I have heard numerous references to the " Akashic Records ," " Cosmic Consciousness ," the "One Universal Mind," " Spirit Guides ," " Guardian Angels ," and "Masters." I have yet to endorse any of these individual terms, or the theories which underlie them, but I will admit that there is something there . Perhaps the source of it is subconsciously internal (within us), or perhaps superconsciously internal (within us, but sparke...

Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Project Managers - Welcome To The Interrogation Room.

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Welcome to The Interrogation Room , located at http://wordpress.com/TheInterrogationRoom . This newly-minted blog will feature exercises, games and challenges to make you into a powerful, more effective decisionmaker and a natural leader. Become the master of your fate. Sharpen your problem-solving skills. Increase your efficiency and management abilities. This is a wonderful complement to my Braintenance Blog (at http://braintenance.blogspot.com/ ), my Taking Command! Blog (at http://takingcommand.blogspot.com/ ), and my Sending Signals! Blog at http://sendingsignals.blogspot.com/ ) . You'll want to visit... Faithfully, Your Host , Douglas E. Castle [ http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ ] Topics. Labels, Tags, Categories and Terms : Predicting Outcomes Survivalism Torture The Stockholm Syndrome Forming Interpersonal Bonds Making Demands Douglas E. Castle Subliminal Messaging Hypnosis NLP - Neuro-Linguisitic Programming Building Psychological Strength Building Psychic ...

Business And Social Leadership Choices - Team Selection and Teamwork

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Dear Braintenance Buffs, Visionaries, Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders, Community Activists, TNNWC Members , Douglas E. Castle Followers (I Love You, yes - I Do), managers, and professional athletic coaches: Teams exist because of the potential for complementarity and synergy. Finding, organizing and leading good team members as a cohesive group focused toward a common or shared objective --- these are challenges . I've identified several of the challenges. This is NOT a survey. Just take a look at the components of team-building and team-working and determine the following things: 1. Which are the most important challenges to meet? (rank them) 2. Which are the most difficult challenges to meet? (rank them) 3. Which are the challenges which consume the most time? (rank them) 4. Which are the challenges which scuttle or sidetrack most team efforts? (identify them) 5. Given a choice, would you rather work with a small team of extraordinarily talented people, or a larger, more diverse...