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10 Paths to Accessing Peace
Accessing peace is essential to expanding our ability to receive and live fulfilling lives. Therefore, the quicker and more easily you can return to peace, the better. Below are 10 strategies to utilize when you would like to consciously increase feelings of peace inside of you, whether you are in turmoil or already at peace.

Lesson #1: Don’t Be Evil

“We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone,” says Page. “So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.” From its search technology to its advertising to its own charitable foundation, Page and Brin have striven to create Google after the fashion of their own morals. The company refuses to place advertisements for hard liquor and donates 1% of its profits to charitable causes all in an effort to not “be evil”.

Searching for Success: How Google Became Great

“When Sergey and I founded Google, we hoped, but did not expect, it would reach its current size and influence,” says Page. “Our intense and enduring interest was to objectively help people find information efficiently.” Indeed, for the past ten years, Google has been helping people navigate the Internet and find precisely what they were looking for. From providing people with life-saving information to helping breakdown global barriers, Google’s impact on the world is undeniable. How did two university dropouts transform their simple idea into a billion dollar company?

Sergey Brin and Larry Page Quotes
Sergey Brin and Larry Page Quotes

John Johnson Quotes
John Johnson Quotes

Lesson #1: You Have To Spend Money to Make Money
Steinbrenner may be one of the most famous faces behind the New York Yankees, but that is only because he has made it his mission to bring on board the best possible people to support him.

I’m back and feeling better!

When the Supreme Technician (that’s me) wanders around the world, speaking, shouting, screaming and whispering the mantra of extreme entrepreneurship and the Age of The Entrepreneur, exhorting everyone in sight to wake up and to see the roses (before smelling them), life takes its toll, oh yes it does, and my voice goes with it, grinding down to dust, to squeals, to scratchy itchings, and with it goes my imagination which says, oh, no, will I ever be able to speak again?

How to Deal with an Angry Customer
Every business encounters angry people. Not disappointed or confused, but actually angry. Here are a few steps you might want to try:

The Tale of the Toothache
"Think, then act" is the Mantra of "the strategy boys." I've long been an "act, then think" guy.

DAMN IT!
WHAT PURE CRAP! WALL STREET JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 9-11: "WHY WOMEN REFRAIN FROM PURSUING MBAs." ONE EXCEPTION TO "NORMAL" [#s HEAVY] APPROACH TO MBA IS UK's LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL. LANCASTER FOCUSES ON "SOFT SKILLS" THAT "PLAY TO WOMEN'S STRENGTHS." TOTAL, PURE, UNMITIGATED CRAP!

Failure Is An Option
My friend Dave sent me a hysterical Onion article titled Failure Now An Option. I hate the phrase "failure is not an option" - of course it is. Some choice quotes:

Bottom Line: This is Not the Bottom of the Financial Crisis
Thomas Barrack Jr. is a friend of mine who happens to be a brilliant guy. We’ve partnered on ventures and he’s the CEO of Colony Capital. He’s been following the financial crisis and occasionally sends me his thoughts about what is going on. He makes such good sense that I’d like to quote a few paragraphs from what he sent me a few days ago:

Book Review: How We Decide
Iâ€™ve always known that a marketing message should â€œconnectâ€ with your prospective customerâ€™s emotions. The traditional explanation has been that emotions truly rule the decision making process. This book explains why this mantra isnâ€™t quite right.

It is What it Is - And Why That's OK
Accepting that everything and everyone in your life is, simply, exactly what it is, is a powerful perspective. When you do this, you don't have to waste time wishing things were different, complaining about how things are or wondering how you might have stopped it. All you have to do, is see (accept) what is, decide how you want things to be moving forward, and get on with your life.

Keys To Reinvent Your LIfe
Need practical tools to reinvent your life? Reinventing your life is really about discovering who you really are. Use these five tools every day and watch how your life changes.

To Grow Your Business Requires Closing the Gap Between Sales and Customer Service

For many businesses, there is a distinct line between sales and customer service. To ensure that the sales process is executed without problems, separate departments have evolved addressing what are perceived to be sales issues and customer service issues. Yet is this really effective given the research about customer turnover, the time to earn a signed commitment and how quickly sales leads become cold?

Kraft Buys Into the Mirage of Vendor Rationalization

In yet another example of the "when will they ever learn" category, About.com's Martin Murray's article "Kraft To Rationalize Vendors" reported that the company "announced that it is planning to cut its supplier base in half, affecting more than 30,000 businesses, but possibly saving Kraft more than $300 million a year." Putting aside for a moment that enterprise-wide rationalization strategies rarely deliver the sustainable savings that are expected - it would be interesting to see how the $300 million per year number was actually calculated - history has shown that the "sifting" process usually results in a supply base composed of the least desirable vendors.

Independent Consulting: Applying the 80/20 Principle to Your Business
The 80/20 principle applies to everything in life, including growing your consulting business. It comes down to managing your limited time so you’re doing the highest value work, and how to outsource the lower value work. One warning: There is something I believe you should never outsource.

How To Get Through Your Work Day When Sleep Deprived

In this world of continually wanting to do more and more in less time, rest is still regarded as a luxury or an interruption to the long list of daily to-dos. If you are not burning the midnight oil trying to beat a deadline many other things can conspire against you in your quest for some elusive slumber. Snoring partners, restless children and your own mind that won't switch off generally ensure that you will join the masses of the sleep deprived. Even when you have a poor night's sleep you are often greeted by a full schedule for the following day. So how can you get through a busy day in an efficient and productive manner when you are feeling flat from not having enough sleep? Follow these three tips that can boost energy for anyone at work feeling the effects of sleep deprivation...

Slow Down to Make MORE Money

If you are sick of twittering till your thumbs fall off, facebooking and blogging until you have a headache, and networking neurotically, you have to read this article! I can't tell you the number of entrepreneurs I speak to who will tell me all they are doing to "chase success" and then ask, "What else should I be doing?" While I admire their stamina, the truth is that their schedules are already staggering. They already have so much going on, it made me tired just listening to it! But we are ALL busy these days. And if we are NOT experiencing success, doesn't it make sense that we should ADD something to the equation? Not always. Sometimes (most of the time) MORE is simply too much! Sometimes (most of the time) we need to slow down... to make more money, to accomplish more, to succeed wildly!

Overcoming Corporate Disconnect
Corporate disconnect is the major contributor to every one of your challenges, problems or negative issues that undermine your growth, profitability and effectiveness as an organization.

Quit Swinging the Bat and Start Hitting the Ball
Correct technique can assure favorable outcomes. But focusing on technique alone can become a distraction.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies - How To Stay Positive In Today's Market
Have you been struggling with all the negative energy around you, but not sure how to eliminate it? This article gives you some great tips on how to remain positive.

(Guest Post) Optimizing Value in the Economic Downturn [and Recovery]

This article is the second in a three-part series of guest articles on optimization by Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, with Emptoris, the supply and contract management solutions provider. As we push on through the troubled economic environment, corporate leaders are laser focused on bringing supply chain management under tighter financial guidelines. An article I recently read in Supply Chain Digest highlighted the typical urgency felt by procurement managers to cut supply chain costs.

Why most managers aren’t up for the job

If you’re a business owner, try answering this question: What does it mean when your company is experiencing lots of turnover, a sharp drop in performance or revenues, people calling in sick all the time, and a general sense of malaise and crankiness? Although you may attribute these problems to the employees themselves, or a few bad apples among them, the reality is that all of these symptoms indicate serious trouble at the top. Without the right kind of leadership, individual business units and the company as a whole will suffer. But the blame cannot be placed entirely on the manager. Poor managerial performance is often a result of a poor selection process. I call it bad jobs happening to good people. Well, it’s not so much that the job itself is bad, but that it is the wrong one for that particular person.

The Super Achiever Stuck

"Strive for excellence" was the mantra in the alternative school my children attended. It was a high priced, beautifully appointed campus made up of the best and the brightest. Sounds good, huh? Not so fast. Now, years later I see the damage that stress and over achievement cost. You see, all the kids who went there drove themselves crazy being excellent. The translation of the word really meant, did you get all A's and how many fancy Ivy League schools accepted you into the rarified air of the privileged few.

Breakdown, Breakthrough: Overcoming the 12 Hidden Crises Professional Women Face
Are you a professional woman longing for a radical change? You are not alone.

Cancer Conqueror Speaks to Inspire

This inspiring story of Professional speaker and author Matt Jones. On September 11, 2002 Matt received a life changing call from his doctor telling him, "you have cancer." After going into remission the cancer came back twice and would spread to his brain. After slipping into a semi-coma doctors did not think Matt would live. Against all odds he recovered. From that experience Matt was inspired to share his story with others.

Selling In A Recession
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are going to the World Series this year. How in the world did that happen and what can salespeople learn from it.

Your Elevator Speech: The Most Important Few Words in Your Business Life
When opportunity presents itself, those with a well-crafted "elevator speech" are in the best position to seize the moment.

Take Action And Ensure Your Career Is Successful
Success in any entrepreneurial endeavour is conditional on a simple truth: Learning does not always require thinking. Actually, thinking often hinders learning. Hinders learning?

The Newest Case For Human Capital
Find ways to have extended, meaningful interactions which allow people to voice concerns, feelings, opinion, ideas, and questions.

Getting In Control
Advice from an expert in work/life balance uses the acronym C.O.N.T.R.O.L. to help you get some balance in your life.

Is Brick and Mortar A Passing Fad
During the dot-com boom the mantra was “Brick and mortar is dead!” Then when most of the dot-com’s crashed like an elephant sitting on a wicker chair, the mantra suddenly changed back to “The Internet is dead! Long live brick and mortar!”

Is Brick and Mortar A Passing Fad
During the dot-com boom the mantra was “Brick and mortar is dead!” Then when most of the dot-com’s crashed like an elephant sitting on a wicker chair, the mantra suddenly changed back to “The Internet is dead! Long live brick and mortar!”

Listening within!
Finding Intuition

Deep Breath
This morning, as I cranked through my 5am – 7am routine (which ends at 6am today because I have to leave the house at 630am to get to CU Boulder to give a keynote at the 2011 Boulder Economic Summit) I kept thinking to myself “deep breath.” If you do yoga you know exactly what I’m talking about – it’s part of Amy’s mantra for each of us to relax, slow down, and concentrate.

I’m Not a Salesman
Yes you are...

Making it Work!
What will happen when you start to make things work in your life? Would you like to join me and start “making it work” in 2008?

Women: How to Optimize Your Inner Leader
Or, Why Women Need to be More Like Men…

How does policy either motivate or undermine employee performance?
In an excerpt from a November 20th post in the Procurement Insights Blog titled "How Leadership Repeatedly Under-Mines Their Most Valuable Procurement Asset" (see below), I discussed the impact that current procurement policies and environments have on purchasing professionals within their respective organizations.

A Business without a Business Plan achieves everyting in it
Yet....why do they have so little impact..... The one-Page Business plan that works and works and works...

What is Your Data Quality Gameplan
This article states importance of having a solid data quality gameplan in place. This way, you're getting the most out of your direct marketing dollars and not wasting valuable budgetary resources.

Carving Corporate Slogans
‘Love all. Serve all.’ The Hard Rock Café slogan sticks like taffy on our minds upon our enthusiastic exit from the rock-themed restaurant. The anecdotal origin of this slogan was that the founders of HRC asked the late-spiritual guru, SB for some kind words and the latter scribbled these words on a piece of paper.

Dreams Come True Series 4: 5 Attract Your Wealth Strategies

These 5 Manifesting Strategies are based on the Law of Attraction, Setting Intentions and the Art of Allowing. As you practice focused intention combined with energetic alignment, you will propel the manifestation of your desires. For these attraction exercises, it is essential that you get into a highly charged energetic state - feeling gratitude, joy and a sense of completion. Often the exercise automatically creates this high vibration; other times, you may need to help this feeling state gain momentum ahead of time.

Change More Than the Calendar
If you are waiting for the calendar to change your life or your business, you are kidding yourself. My own observation is that these false start dates are nothing more than excuses and actual obstacles to not face reality and take action. No matter your intentions, I think everyone has been guilty of false statements at some time.

Addressing Political Activism in the Workplace
With the 2008 Presidential Election swiftly approaching, learning how to treat political debate and actions in the office is the best way to prevent any future problems.

5 Manifesting Strategies to Realize Abundance
These 5 Manifesting Strategies are based on the Law of Attraction, Setting Intentions and the Art of Allowing. As you practice focused intention combined with energetic alignment, you will propel the realization of your desires.

Attitude Have It Hire It
Attitude is one of the most important traits you need to develop and one of the most important traits to look for in hiring and promoting people. It is virtually impossible to fix a bad attitude.

The Art of Effective Listening
Listening is a very attribute for all of us to have or at the very least be working on. Listening is especially a key skill for individuals in a Leadership role because of the complexities of today's work environment

YOU Are Your Businesses Greatest Asset:

Whether you're in the early stages of creating a business or have been in business for a decade, it's a good idea to revisit the basics and make sure you have a strong personal foundation for your business to thrive upon. It doesn't matter how good your products or services are if you don't stay in good shape, mentally, emotionally and physically eventually, you're out of business. Statistics tell us that most small businesses fail in the first 5 years due to lack of capital. While this is true, in my experience the other reason businesses fail is from owner burnout!

4.5 Improving the performance of public services and formal sector enterprises: Working Out of Poverty

In many developing countries, pay and conditions in the public services have deteriorated badly over the long years of austerity associated with structural adjustment and the debt crises. This has seriously damaged morale and performance, led to the loss of some of the most talented public servants to the private sector, increased the risk of public servants resorting to “charging” citizens for services by demanding under-the-counter payments, and weakened confidence in the function of government.

Believe
It was the mantra in Boston for October and should be the mantra for each of us every day.

Taking control of your IT&T career - June 2004
Implementing a successful career management strategy in the IT&T industry has been anything but easy in the last few years. Changing market conditions, mergers, acquisitions, redundancies, retrenchments, and pay reductions have become the common mantra.

5 Ways to Improve your Visibility
Be Seen and Heard is your business mantra. Improve your communication skills and watch your home business grow. Increase your visibility quotient with some inexpensive tried and tested techniques.

SEO Copywriting - Why Content is King
The Google mantra is quite popular with any webmaster who wants to succeed online. Hiring a professional SEO copywriting service could be the key!

Change for Good...What You Leverage and Measure, You Get!
Planning for change is a key phrase of the day. We all know why...we have to get better, be more productive, drive more customer loyalty, make less errors, do more sales, achieve more employee engagement. "You can't manage what you don't measure" is a companion mantra, acknowledging the value of meaningful change metrics.

How public safety professionals are shooting themselves in the foot
“Things will continue to be normal” mantra is a charade that must stop. Decision-makers and the public need to be educated about the trade-offs that result from allocating fewer resources than required to maintain service levels.

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