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Your Circle of Influence: What is their impact on your life?
As human beings, our lives are shaped and influenced by a myriad of factors, and relationships is at the top of the list. Think about how much of "who you are today" was influenced by a specific parent, sibling, relative, teacher, coach, neighbor, author, speaker, boss, co-worker, spouse or friend. Values, habits, behavior, knowledge, skills, passions, hobbies, tastes and attitudes are typically learned through association with others. Yet, as influential as relationships are, most people haven't consciously chosen their greatest "circle of influence".
Poison To Entrepreneurs
There is a poison out there that effects entrepreneurs and everyone is susceptible to it.

Become Massively Competent
Any feeling of incompetence we have, may be an alarm of realization that change is needed. We may not believe it’s required but it should still be considered. Competency can be improved many ways and will always benefit us.

Leadership Traits of the USMC
James Dicks examines the importance of leadership development in today's business environment.
Things Leaders Do Part 5
There are five activities leaders do daily that are required to make their business grow. These actions are proven to be essential to the building and flourishing of any successful enterprise. There is no substitute for any one of them and they must be done daily.

All The Training in the World will not Improve your Business
With the number of online business opportunities available today, I see more and more people just trying to get as much knowledge as possible thinking that the more they know the more successful they will be. There is a reason why the smartest people in the world are not the riches people or the happiest. So all the training in the world will not help you if you don’t practice what you’ve learned.

Everyone is an OUT
There are four types of people and we all fit into one of these categories. Where we are can be caused by various conditions and thankfully we aren’t bound in that situation. It is our choice to stay in our place or move to another yes, our choice.

Top Must Have Assets to be a Sought-After Leadership Speaker
What can you do to be a sought-after leadership speaker? Work hard on it! Are there some professional and personal attributes that you can develop to set yourself apart in a crowded field of speakers? Here are the major ones that can't be faked.

Select Seminars and Workshops with Purpose
Recently, one of my clients asked me about a seminar offered by a competitor. His questions to me were, “Howard, take a look at this and let me know if you think I should go, and if you want to come with me?” Rather than answer the questions directly, I left him with these thoughts and some questions to ask himself.
Top 7 Leadership Lessons Learned From Gardening
Gardening has tips that can be applied in Gardening has tips that can be applied in leadership strategies, parenting and spiritual issues. My mother gave me a small plot to garden when I was ten-long before she bought me my first underwear and shoes. It was mine to cultivate, plant and care for my crops before harvesting them. Sugarcane was my crop of choice. I could harvest one at a time without asking for my parent's permission. At that tender age, I discovered a source of tranquility and moments for creative thinking that are rarely experienced in our fast paced world. Up to 1985, I gardened whenever schools were closed. What many consider manual labor was an interconnection of mental, physical, and spiritual aspects that always left a sense of significance words cannot describe.

Live the Example You Teach
How often do we listen to someone give instruction on a subject and later find out they don’t follow their own teaching? These instances are most often noted with ministers in religion but can occur in every area of life.

Learn from the Past
To learn from past is a valuable way to prevent repeating those mistakes. If we will take the experience of others and how they responded to their situations many of our problems will be averted.

Give your business a helping hand with a non-executive director
Growth businesses which find they are lacking in knowledge or expertise in a particular area may find that the answer is to bring an experienced non-executive director (NED) on board. A NED will have typically enjoyed a successful business career, and can bring a range of benefits to your board and executive team. They often have several directorships with companies of differing sizes and usually work part-time.
Improve Your Training Sessions with the Five Rights of Training
All trainers need to take stock occasionally of how they are going. Are your training sessions as effective as they could be? Use these Five Rights of training to help you review where your training programs could be missing the mark.
Training Employees: Stop Wasting Your Money
You send your people on expensive training courses. Yet your business performance does not seem to improve. Your problem may lie in how you look at training. This article considers two popular views of how training works. Hold the outdated view and you will continue to lose money on training. Act on the enlightened view and your business and people will prosper. Which view do you hold?
How Much Money And Time Do You Spend To Bring In A New Client?
What does “lifetime value” really mean? It’s pretty simple. Lifetime value (LTV) is the average amount of money that a customer spends (and the profits that you make) from the first time that the person buys something until his/her last purchase.
Stop Worrying about Sales
Someone once said that worrying is praying for things you don’t want to happen. What a great saying, and, like all sayings, there’s a lot of truth in it.
Why Professional Experience Hinges on Personal Value
The personal value attached to the people you do business with directly affects your professional experience. Treating others with the same respect and dignity you’d expect isn’t the bench mark in business. Try treating complete strangers as though they were your closest friends and you’ll immediately become valuable to them.

The Talent Exodus
The pending talent exodus is literally off the radar screen for Dan's company. He is the chief executive for a small company with a rich sixty year history. The niche markets and the specialty products he produces have created a comfortable living for the over four hundred employees and their families. He has veteran employees that have tremendous knowledge and experience in the work they perform. These sometimes thirty year employees have been the backbone of the company for many years. And truthfully, Dan takes the knowledge and experience for granted. No one on the team is thinking about the tremendous loss the team will experience over the next five to ten years.

Small- and Medium Enterprises: Better access to information management and knowledge networks
New factors of production and sources of competitive advantages such as various innovations drive the information and knowledge economy in the third millennium. Concerned are practically all industries and all enterprises independent of their size. For instance, a laptop, a car or a cell phone are not produced by one single person or company, cooperative networks are fast becoming the basic units or innovation and production, among them a huge number of Small- and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). They are embedded within information networks communicating with supply chains, technology transfer organizations, share holders, managers, investors, which all contribute to corporate information and knowledge.
Open Mind, Close Mouth
As you have more milestone birthdays-the ones that end in "0"-you come to learn the myriad of things you don't know. Life's experiences give us wisdom, but for every answer there seems to be two questions that pop up that are not answered. When you were a teenager or a young adult, everything was simple, easy, and fully understood by you. As time passed, the simple black-and-white world faded into complex shades of gray. We come to realize that people are products of their environment, their thinking, and their attitudes.

How to implement a Social Media Readiness Assessment of your company
Whenever a company wish to assess if they are ready for social media, there are 8 key categories of 42 Best Practices each to answer before using social media to connect with the public.
Knowledge is NOT power, practice is NOT perfection
The more you show what you know, and do so with perfection, then you inevitably become more valuable, more productive and more confident. So learning AND perfect application leads to change and success.

To Grow or Not to Grow There is No Question
Isn't it true that everyone has a goal? Some may dream of wealth, some of travel, some of dedicating their lives to service others, whatever the goal ... it is human nature to have something to "aim for." If you were asked, "How willing are you to take whatever steps necessary to achieve your personal and/or professional goals?" What would your answer be? Are you willing to change your perceptions, learn new things, and embrace new ideas? Are you willing to grow in order to grasp your brass ring?
The Relevance & Reality of Education
We cannot deny that education is important and useful. A good education is critical for navigating through today’s, often times, confusing world. A better quality education may spell the difference between more opportunities and missed opportunities. Education arms us with the knowledge and know-how, married with the know-who we will build and develop. Education helps eradicate ignorance, and the prejudices and discrimination that it breeds.
Cost of Ignorance
Several hundred years ago, many of our ancestors lived on farms. They raised livestock, grew crops, and produced the majority of everything they needed to survive. These ancestors possessed all the knowledge that was needed to perform each of the tasks on their farm.

Are you STREAKIN\' or SLUMPIN\'?
Up or down? Making money or working hard? On a roll or in a rut? Where do you fall today? What exactly is a SLUMP? In baseball, have you ever noticed that they call it a batting SLUMP when you are not producing, but they call it a hitting STREAK when you are on a roll? Why is that? Why don’t they call it a hitting slump? Why isn’t it known as a batting streak? It seems that a batting SLUMP has the connotation that you are getting poor results from lackluster efforts, whereas it seems that a hitting STREAK suggests that your above average results are based not upon efforts, but upon action! Let’s break down those two words to see what they truly are. By using one, we may combat and even possibly avoid the other.
Why Knowledge & History May be Killing You
Sometimes what you know may be more dangerous than what you don’t know. When it comes to business, you may mistake knowledge or experience as “truth”. There is only one truth about your business, and that is, "What you believe is what will come true\".
Wisdom
Wisdom is a state of knowing!
Dining at the Idea Buffet
Idea buffets, such as seminars, are a great way to acquire many new ideas. After ingesting a buffet of ideas, make sure to exercise your mental muscles and apply the new information so you don't become "idea obese."

A N.E.T.W.O.R.K. of Words to Help You NETWORK
Top 7 Things You Need to Know About Business and Social Networking
The world doesn’t pay for what you know, but for……….
Okay I’ll go ahead and finish the sentence: The World Doesn’t Pay You For What You Know but for What You Do. I guess we would all acknowledge the truth of that and yet I am amazed at the number of people I run into who are bogged down in analyzing, learning, planning and organizing when what they really need to do is take action. I think more than anything else that’s what separates winners from losers – the winners take action.

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Bridging the Victory Gap The 6 Steps to Success Conclusion
“To know and not to act is not to know.” Over the last few articles, we have explored a number of elements that are critical to grow your business. But the knowledge of those elements will mean nothing if you do not implement that knowledge. To implement that knowledge, it is vital to understand the formula for change.
Quick Access to Knowledge One Key to Success for Entrepreneurs
Knowledge used widely gains a leverage to obtain more resources and understand more viewpoints and accepted current norms. So, you have heard that knowledge is power. But have you heard that knowledge when planned and acted on properly can produce wealth quicker. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs know
The Knowledge Workers Concept
Knowledge, as a corporate asset, is the focus of much discussion. What constitutes knowledge and where does it reside? By some estimations, knowledge is a personal possession, something an individual has as a result of education and/or experience; by other estimations, it is a "consensually supported result of information processing and thus part of organizational memory, a publicly documented body of knowledge (Nevis et al., 1995). However, most would agree that, in a corporate sense, knowledge is the productive application of information(Bendaly, 1996).
Knowledge And The Intellectural Capital Of The Organization
In the new economy of the millennium, knowledge has emerged as an asset to be valued, developed and managed. The quest for knowledge is not new: in the fourth century BC, Aristotle noted "All men by nature desire knowledge." Now, 25 centuries later, knowledge drives the global economy. No longer is knowledge considered only an individual's personal wisdom; knowledge is a component of the intellectual capital of organizations (Stewart 1997).

The Value Of Knowledge To The Organization
Since knowledge is an intangible asset, it is difficult to assign a value to it. Its amorphous nature exacerbates this difficulty. Lew Platt, former CEO of Hewlett Packard, has acknowledged the dilemma: "If HP know what HP knows, we would be three times as profitable." Intellectual capital is collective knowledge, but who collects it and who disseminates it? Successful and competitive organizations are rich in knowledge, but whose knowledge is it and and who assigns value to it? Values assigned to knowledge may differ. For example, knowledge May have one value for the organization, another for shareholders, yet another for current and potential partners, and still one more for individuals within the organization.
Knowledge Tips One Key For Success for Entrepreneurs in 2007
Knowledge on it's own Knowledge used widely gains a leverage to obtain more resources and understand more viewpoints and accepted current norms. Knowledge with action of course, but what does this mean? Well how about when you buy mutual funds, do you buy them based on selection, type, company, personal information, fund information or did someone tell you which one to buy. So where did you find out this knowledge, was it a respected source? Is there, or what level of risk is involved.

Knowledge (Intellectual) Capital is a firm’s source of
“Today's most technologically advanced economies are truly knowledge-based” World Development Report, 1999. For countries in the vanguard of the world economy, the balance between knowledge and resources has shifted so far towards the former, that knowledge has become perhaps the most important factor determining the standard of living - more than land, tools and labor.

The Conspiracy Against Your Money
The key to beating the conspiracy against your money is knowledge. Knowledge is power. And today, financial knowledge, a solid financial education, is the most powerful kind.
Knowledge Is Not Power – It’s What You Do With That Knowledge, That’s What Really Counts
That’s right. Knowledge is not power. Nope. This is one of the biggest lies out there. Try this instead: “It is the implementation of knowledge that is the real power”. You see it isn’t what you know that matters, it’s what you do that counts. Knowledge alone won’t fix a thing. It’s what you do with that knowledge; that’s what will make the difference.

The Money Maze
The current turmoil in the financial markets has created more confusion and controversy surrounding money, wealth, and personal finance than ever before. Surprisingly, money is not the key to wealth. Knowledge is the key to wealth. People who are wealthy have a high degree of knowledge and understanding as it relates to money. They did not obtain this knowledge because they have money. They have money because they obtained this knowledge.

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