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Lesson #2: Promotion is Your Company’s Best Punch
“Without promotion something terrible happens,” Barnum once said, “nothing!” A master promoter himself, Barnum understood the importance of making a splash and just how to do it. He first started his circus at a time when every Tom, Dick and Jane had their own traveling road show. Thus, he knew he had to make his just a little bit different than the rest in order to stand out. Indeed, it was by using showmanship and promoting himself to no end that Barnum succeeded where the others failed.

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Financing the Future: J.P. Morgan Takes Off
Following the American Civil War, Morgan decided to get involved in the railroad business. Taking what he had learned both from his father and his own investment banking experience, Morgan began to purchase railroad companies that he noticed were struggling to stay afloat. He used his shrewd investment skills to take control of the notable Albany, Susquehanna, Philadelphia, New England and other railroad lines. Morgan then began to promote them to European investors, famously managing to sell 87% of New York Central Railroad stock without driving down the price.

Resistance to Change and How to Deal With It
Sometimes the best planned change initiatives meet with resistance. Opposition to change can railroad a project, leading to much wasted resources, recriminations and exhaustion for all parties. What drives resisters and how can you turn them into supporters before your program goes off the rails? Find out the ways that people resist and some tips on what you can do about it.
Refining Success: Standard Oil Takes Shape
By the time Standard Oil was in business, Cleveland had become one of the five major refining centres in the country. By getting secret rebates from the railroads and supporting a new cartel aimed at stabilizing freight railroad rates in return for preferential treatment, Rockefeller was able to give his company an edge.

Luxury in 2007
In this short article, Stanley Moss tracks the evolution of luxury brands, and how they relate to current market conditions.
THE VALUES OF SUCCESS
There are many ways to reach our destination, but our values, our tracks, hold us on the right path as we move toward achieving our goals
But We CAN'T
When "can't" enters the room - progress stops dead in its tracks.

The Art of Being with Fear: Never Be Stopped By Fear Again
You are standing on railroad tracks when you begin to feel the vibration from the train on the metal rails. You consider running home. Then you hear the clatter of the rails from the oncoming train, the train horn, your heart starts to race, your body starts to shake and as you turn to run you are suddenly struck with terror. You begin to sweat and then suddenly you realize the train wasn't going to hit, but just pass you bay. You are still alive, but you have broken through to a whole new level of awareness and reality.

Tap in to China!
In 1995, the NASDAQ was trading around 1000. On 3/10/2000, it hit a peak of 5048. Such euphoria had not been seen since the railroad boom of the 1840s or the automobile boom of the 1920s. Now it is China’s turn
Detours are Delightful
Have you ever been lost? Do you sometimes feel, in your business, that you don't know where you're going - or, perhaps, you've had to change tracks?
The Global Significance of Art
As an artist, I believe that art lives. There is the spirit of the artist in each original piece of art. Of this I am sure. Does the spirit move also into each reproduction? This I am not so sure of. What I do know is that a piece of art can stop one cold in his or her tracks or a group of people cold in their tracks. You can see this yourself whenever you go to a major museum where they have the masters in their collections. And, of course, contemporary artists can also stop people in their tracks. Art is powerful. I love being an artist. I love that what Kant said about come comparing artists to God. Of course, it all comes from God. Where art is concerned, globally, it is a small world indeed.
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