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Recovery or No Recovery? That is the Question.

James Dicks examines the discrepancies of what economists are telling us about a possible technical economic recovery and what the American public is actually experiencing.

Leadership Truth #1 - Great Leaders Operate from a Set of Values

Values are the underpinning of everything we do. Great leaders have a concrete set of values that they operate from on a daily basis. Where do these values come from?

Leadership Truth #11 - Great Leaders Do Better in a Crisis

A hallmark of great leadership is that these people do better when there is a crisis. They are more prepared going in and have a way of navigating during a crisis that instinctively finds the best path through chaos. How do they accomplish this?

Leadership Assessment #18 – Handle Crises Well

There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to handle crises well.

What Exactly Is A Generational Coach?

It’s easy to give you “technical” stuff about Generational Coaching . . . ~ That I help family members know what to do and how to do it so that their elderly parents will willingly do what’s in their best interest; ~ That I work only with the family members, never the senior; ~ That all Generational Coaching is by phone; ~ And that I work with one person – or several people – by conference call so they will work together to confront the issues – not each other.

Caring for Aging Parents: What's The Best That Could Happen?

How often have you done something that you really dreaded and heard yourself saying "that wasn't so bad"?

Communicate with the people you owe; it’s a win-win for everyone

James Dicks explains the benefits of being honest with your creditors, even when the answer is not what they want to hear.

Create a Personal Financial Survival Plan

James Dicks examines the need to prepare for financial hardships ahead of time.

Diversification is the Key

James Dicks explains the benefits of diversifying your personal financial investment portfolio.

Doing it Debt Free

James Dicks explains the importance of the US population paying off their personal debt as soon as possible.

Exceeding the Standards

James Dicks examines what it takes for business and individuals to make it in today's tough eocnomy

Facing Foreclosure? Listen Up!

James Dicks offers an eye opening account behind the reality of today's housing market as it pertains to foreclosures and banking.

Guarding Your Thoughts

James Dicks examines the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in today's tough economic times.

History Repeats Itself - Again and Again and Again

James Dicks examines recessions and depressions throughout American history. These are trending issues and will continue to happen over and over again. The point - things have a tendancy to worsen but they always seem to recover.

Is 5 Years Long Enough To Get Rich Quick?

James Dicks discusses of getting "rich" in the short term and the methods that have worked in his own life

Let's Give It All We Got

James discusses volunteer service in the US

Looking For The Bottom

James Dicks examines the current global economic situaiton and speculates on when a bottom might be reached and improvement may begin.

What Do We Do Now?: Options for Allocating Scarce Resources When You Haven’t Planned Ahead

Although advance planning for resource allocation is the ideal scenario, many organizations found themselves caught short by the severe constraints imposed by the economic downturn. What are the alternatives when organizations are operating in crisis mode and there is no “Plan A?” Given the need to make decisions about how to curtail their operations immediately, there are two options that can help in the short-run: (1) increase inputs or (2) decrease outputs - each with several alternatives

Crisis Leadership

Whether you are a politician, CEO or occupy any position with the title of leader; how you respond and fix a crisis will define your leadership style and capability. If you are seeking to maintain the confidence and trust of your constituents, clients, employees or the general public, you must respond quickly and effectively to the crisis and maintain executive presence.

The Magic of Entrepreneurship

James Dicks examines the benefits of creating your own small business.

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

James Dicks examines the need to make some critical decisions that will affect your future financial life.

Build a Financial Plan “as you see it”

My goal is to help you achieve that kind of discipline, so that you can move from where you are to where you want to be. That means slightly different things for different people-there's no "one size fits all"-but that is the fun and beauty of financial independence.

Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 1

I thought, you can go where you want to go and do what you want to do, when you want to do it. What I had to discover-and in fact didn't discover for many years-was that having the money wasn't as important as knowing what to do with the money once I got it. In reality, as it turned out, money was only a tool.

First Step-Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 2

To take your first step and set your mind on the course to financial success, you must begin to dream. You must begin to envision the kind of life you desire. For some of you, this will be easy, because you have dreamed all your life. For others, it will be more difficult. Why? Some people simply don't know how to dream-they've never tapped into their imagination deeply enough to let their thoughts run free.

Dreaming is fun, isn’t it? Part 3

Someone once said that what the mind can see, the body can achieve. I believe it. I go a step further. I believe that the mind must see it before the body is able to work for it. Look at another realm of human endeavor: sports. When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, he saw it long before he did it. Over and over in his mind, he later recalled, he visualized doing what had been deemed to be impossible. Interestingly enough, once Bannister did what no one else had ever done before, others quickly succeeded in doing it.

Principles of Wealth Creation

To accomplish your goal of becoming financially free, you will need to master specific principles of wealth creation. No, these aren’t some magical set of principles we found scratched in papyrus scrolls in the ruins of an ancient temple. They’re contemporary, commonsense principles. At the same time, though, they are magical, because they create the basis for a sound foundation of wealth creation.

A millionaires dreams

Financial freedom is your dream. As long as you can dream, you can continue to succeed. Show me a person who has no dream, and I will show you someone who is poor. A millionaire dreams, and then sets out to make those dreams real. Once you stop dreaming, you stop the magic. That’s because you have created the world you wanted. You stop moving forward, because your dreams have ended. Either you are content to live with what you have or you are constantly frustrated because you don’t have enough-or you learn to dream again.

Focus Your Dreams to Make Them Come Alive

What will you be interested in after you buy all of those lavish things you always thought you wanted? What’s beyond the bigger car, the faster boat, and the fancier house? Whatever they are, those are the really important things.

The Currency Transaction Levy: An innovative source of SMEs financing

James Tobin (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1981) was widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the "Tobin tax". This was designed to reduce speculation in the international currency markets, which he saw as dangerous and unproductive. He suggested that the proceeds of the tax could be used to fund projects for the benefit of Third World countries, or to support the United Nations. James Tobin and other economists, e.g. David Felix, Rodney Schmidt, Paul Bernd Spahn have examined the possibility of levying a charge on international monetary transactions as a means to reduce exchange rate volatility and promote international economic stabilit

Diminished Value and Gap Insurance “Know your Rights”

Did you know that if you are in an accident that you can get a second check from the insurance company for diminished value on your automobile? There are numerous financial strategies that can and will assist you and your family achieves financial success.

IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS ON CREDIT AVAILABILITY FOR SMEs WORLD WIDE

With a view at the global economic slowdown, it became apparent that economies in all regions of the world have significantly begun to lose momentum. In October and November 2008 extensive surveys have been undertaken as well in industrialised and in less developed Countries on the impact of the financial crisis on credit policy by lending banks and the wider impact on the near future of SME business, exports, investments and development. As a general result of such surveys approximately one third of the SME entrepreneurs briefed, stated that they are currently experiencing a tightening of credit policy by their banks (extreme restrictions have been decided e.g. in Iceland and in Central-and East- European Countries.

Millennium Development Goals need sound SMEs = More Jobs = Less Poverty

Due to the global economic crisis more than 60 million more people, among them millions of small- and micro entrepreneurs, primarily in the less developed countries will be in poverty in this year 2010.Many of the achievements in recent years made to facilitate business of SMEs in the world, to reduce poverty in less privileged economies have seriously been jeopardised by shrinking demand for SMEs export products, increasing prices for energy and food, falling commodity prices, significant reductions in foreign investment and a general liquidity shortage. The strong interdependence among the worlds' economies made this a literally global economic crisis and human tragedy.

Key Points To Consider When Managing A Crisis

Any business can find itself, without warning, having to deal with a crisis or issue. Such situations can have far reaching and long lasting detrimental effects, if not dealt with in the most efficient and controlled manner, deflecting as much negative response as possible. The process by which a company handles such situations is commonly known as crisis or issues management. Every organisation should have a procedure that is documented and established that is activated either as soon as a crisis occurs, or whenever possible, in advance of an issue or crisis arising.

Crisis Management - The Essentials

Protecting your reputation - your most valuable business asset - during a crisis is a major concern. But how do you go about it?

Dealing with adversity

Adversity! It sucks. Yet most of us experience it from time to time. Trying to run away from it doesn’t help – ultimately the hole only gets bigger until there is no way out. But by facing it and following some simple steps I’ve found that it can be dealt with. Hopefully the things that have worked for me may be of assistance to you, too.

UK and European currency debt

changing of the guard in Italy and Greece will cast long shadow over Europe and Euro.

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