Happy New Year+31

It’s been a month since we crossed over into 2023.  Are you still saying Happy New Year? I am. How long did it take you to declare it just another year, and with that, maybe even not a happy one? Nine days in, a Monday, I already had to strain to hear it from anyone. …

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Episode 40: Talk To Me!

Is it just me or are you regularly unable to find emails that have turned into conversations? Here’s a simple, easy and sometimes frightening way to evolve your email conversation…

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Fumblerooskie

“Hey Joe – I see you’re based in Florida. Heard a lot of people are moving from California to Florida. You’ve probably seen that happen first hand the past couple of years, right? Wanted to know if you’re interested in how I can create 15 branded social posts for Soul Patch Hippo: Success Coaching? I’ll…

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Episode 39: The Real Difference

Learning “things”, competencies, is not the secret to differentiation and longevity with a company or any organization for that matter. The real miss here is in-person communication and interaction. This is where the secret sauce is to your success.

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Ready [ in-duh-vij-oo-uhl ] [kuhn-trib-yuh-ter] 1

Individual  [ in-duh-vij-oo-uhl ] – a single human being, as distinguished from a group. Contributor [kuhn-trib-yuh-ter] – a person who contributes money, assistance, etc. Let’s put them together shall we?  A single human being, who contributes money, assistance, etc…, feels under appreciated don’t you think? I originally began writing on this subject with the sales professional…

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Episode 38: Person v Thing

There’s a lot of chatter out there right now about Discovery. The proper way to “Discover”. And most of it, nay, all of it is misguided. Even the sharpest tools in the drawer reflect back to one basic premise: their own agenda.

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iNOT Robot

Issac Asimov, in his sci-fi classic I, Robot said; “You just can’t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.”  Well, Issac, I dug the book, and on this part I will disagree.  Are we ready to give up being human beings already?   Richard Branson once said “We are human beings, not human…

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Storm of the Century

Meet Ian.There have been many famous ones.  The most famous Ian of course is Ian Fleming.  This according to several websites, not just my adoring fanship for all things 007.  Many are actors like Ian McShane and Ian McKellen.  And there are the musicians like Ian Anderson and an obscure college fave of mine: Ian…

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