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The Scariest Hallowe'en Ever
What's more frightening, fantasy or reality? Is it any wonder that people naturally prefer to get scared by their fantasies? But, it's the realities that are out to get you!

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Serial Entrepreneur: How Cowell Produced Success
When Cowell was once asked what the secret to success was, he replied, “Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instinct and don’t compromise.” It is by following this recipe that Cowell has shot to fame and earned a reputation as not only a great record producer, music executive, and television personality, but also as an astute and successful entrepreneur.

United, we stand. Divided, we fall.
Most of us need other people. Whether it is a good friend, a lover, or an astute business colleague, most of us need to maintain relationships with others.
Using Assessments with Coaching
The astute coach helps the person examine gaps between what they believe they do and what they actually do. This is fertile ground for personal growth and development, but is also the area where people become defensive and resistant. Assesments are a great tool to help identify real needs.

Managing Growth
When we look back at the excesses of a few short years ago the risk of rapid expansion becomes apparent. We are now paying it back. It didn’t take an astute businessman to question the seemingly endless development of cookie cutter strip malls that made any drive seem like the movie “Groundhog Day”. It wasn’t de javu but rather redundant development.
Making Companies Thrive Today
I’m an observer and I read a lot. Why would a pastor care about such things? Frankly, some days I miss the business world and so thinking about it keeps me connected. Plus, much of my ministry is to people who live in this world every day, so keeping up with it makes me a better minister to them.

Tips on Cost-Cutting for Your Non-profit
Non-profit organizations have been under as much financial pressure as any other business organization in the prevailing global economic slowdown. Cost-cutting in such times is an astute strategy for survival. The following are some useful tips that you can use for cutting costs at your non-profit:
The 6 Perceptual Styles, What We Value and How We See the World: The Adjustment Style
In the second of a series of articles detailing the 6 innate Perceptual Styles of the Perceptual Style Theory, the authors detail the style known as Adjustments: a keen and thoughtful observer of the world for whom life offers a complexity that can only be known by gathering knowledge and the understanding that comes with it.

Ten Things You Can Do To Read People Quicker
Understanding people means being able to notice how they operate in conversatons, meetings and interactions. This means becoming like a video camera or detached observer; in the conversation yet hovering above it and noticing what's happening in the space between you. Skilled questioning, listening and observing helps you build a much deeper understanding and increases your opportunity to engage and influence.
In Search of Executive Wisdom
Every person in an executive role aspires to be wise and is expected to exercise wisdom in their decisions. Unfortunately, far too often senior leaders are more concerned with meeting the numbers and fail to come close to being astute.

The Motivation Myth
After six years at Universal Pictures, Harry Cohn formed Columbia Pictures in 1924. During the following decades he ran the company with an iron fist. His image as a tyrant was reinforced by the riding whip he kept near his desk to crack for emphasis. Cohn's form of "motivation" led to the greatest creative turnover of any major studio. At his funeral in 1958, one observer suggested that the 1,300 attendees "had not come to bid farewell, but to make sure he was actually dead."
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