Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Poorer Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and the coming MARKET CRASH.

Note: This article was written by Douglas Castle and was originally published in the blog HUMANITAS MAXIMUS. The author does not offer financial, investment, accounting, tax or legal advice, and the article which follows should not be construed by the reader as such. This article may be reproduced or republished without permission, provided that full attribution to the author and original publication are given, and the the article is reproduced in its entirety, with all pictures, hyperlinks and copy left fully intact.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Poorer Dad - Robert Kiyosaki and the coming MARKET CRASH.


Dear Friends:

Hope is a great elixir -- it is every bit as powerful as faith, but requires less "waiting around" and permits you to be a bit more proactive in determining your fate. Purveyors of hope in any arena of the Human sport, tend to make people feel better -- at least for a period of time. Some of the more successful purveyors of hope make a darn good living at it, as well. They tend to thrive in the worst of times.

Do they thrive because they are brilliant, visionary investors? Generally not. They profit because they can provide the general populace with one of the last remaining legal euphoriants...HOPE! They sell hope at a profit.

When it comes to Hope, as a precious commodity in short supply, what separates those who are cold-hearted opportunists taking advantage of Human frailty from those who are truly leaders is whether or not they actually have a destination in mind for their adherents and believers -- a vision beyond book sales and carnival tents.

Hope must be given responsibly, and with good intent. If you traffic in Hope, please be kind enough to take your followers to a better destination instead of merely taking them for a very overpriced cab ride right back to nowhere.

My editorialized version of the Kiyosaki (of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" fame) ad follows for your viewing pleasure. If the picture is either cut off or unclear, you may try 1) increasing the screen magnification (on your computer), or 2) clicking on the picture to see if doing so (this is always experimental) will lead you to a different screeen with a higher-resolution, larger version of the same.

Thank you.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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Best Blogs Of The Week - In Search Of The Finest, Most Interesting Blogs and Posts.

Best Blogs Of The Week - In Search Of The Finest, Most Interesting Blogs and Posts: All Subjects, All Fields, No Limits.

Dear Readers and Friends:

I promise you a wonderful, intellectually-rewarding experience with http://bestblogsoftheweek.blogspot.com/ .

I believe that the written expression of great thoughts, interesting stories, and brain-straining wordplay is in danger of extinction. It is my mission, with this blog, to comb the annals (which does sound a bit distasteful) of citizen journalism to find the best examples of the written word. We, as members of Humankind (I am behind in my dues, but I'm going to get current next month, I swear...) have a sacred obligation to promote free thought, the science and art of written expression, and literacy.

Join me here, and help to prevent an endanged species from becoming extinct.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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The noted (and occasionally notorious) DouglasCastleBlogosphere has, this 14th day of February, 2011 given birth to a new blog, titled, "Best Blogs Of The Week." Be on the lookout for some excellent ideas and writing from the deepest reaches and farthest realms of cyberspace. The subject matter will be highly varied -- but always interesting.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Faithfully,

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A Hard-Wired Culture Of Fear And Ignorance Keeps Humankind Trapped In a State Of Perpetual Unrest

A Hard-Wired Culture Of Fear and Ignorance Keeps Humankind Trapped In A State Of Perpetual Unrest


We must transcend our fears and overcome our ignorance if we are to survive and advance as a species. We need less class and ethnic warfare and more open dialogue. Humanity cannot continue along its current course. -DC



Note: I have a friend overseas who is a fellow Internationalist and a great enthusiast at the prospect of joining the TNNWC Team and working to build TNNWC Group’s International Connections Service Division. He recently had to cancel a Skype conference due to civil unrest in the region of the country he calls home. This state of affairs frightens me – not just for the well-being of my friend and future teammate – but for the horrifying fact that this type of civil unrest (an oxymoron) is actually prevalent throughout most of the world. It wreaks special havoc on emerging economies. My letter (with some edits for reasons of security) follows for your information. I felt compelled to share my feelings about this matter with everyone willing to take a moment to read this letter to him.
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Dear M:

Please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you, and for the safety and security of your loved ones. Please get in touch as soon as you are able, either by telephone or via email to let us know your status.

We are eagerly awaiting an opportunity to combine forces and resources with you and to resume our discussions for furtherance; but your safety comes first.

It would seem that the world needs better communication and more collaboration - we will never advance as a species while we still persecute and brutalize each other. There must come a time in this world when we seek, as Human Beings and evolved souls, to explore and celebrate the things that we share in common, i.e., those great things that unite us, instead of battling over those lesser things that divide us.

Until such time as our level of social evolution can somehow "catch up" to our level of technological advancement, and until such time as our empathy can exceed our all-consuming avarice and paranoia, we will be conducting ourselves like frightened children lost in a forest.

In the spirit of peace and friendship,

Douglas



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Above and Beyond - Do You Have What Is Required To Be Part Of An Entrepreneurial Team?

Note: If you click on the picture above, and blow it up to its full size (with incredibly poor resolution), you'll note that the fellow wearing the armor is either saying or thinking, "Man! It's getting awfully hot in here!" -DC

Above and Beyond - Do You Have What Is Required To Be Part Of An Entrepreneurial Team?

Dear Friends, TNNWC Members, Fellow Entrepreneurs and Frustrated Leaders of Emerging Enterprises:

One of the first, but most challenging jobs of championing an entrepreneurial enterprise is the dilemma of choosing and assembling a team. Assuming that you have some brialliant and commercially viable ideas, and the ability to articulate them, you are going to have to sift through hordes of "helpful" people in order to find the right players. The qualifying questions that will be running through your weary and wary mind will include some of these:

1. Does this person have a skill which we require? Is this persons level of skill adequate? Is this person capable and complementary to the team's objectives?

2. Is this person trustworthy, honorable and reliable?

3. Is this person purely a "talker - i.e., a member of the philosophical and cerebral elite" or is he or she a "roll up your shirtsleeves and get it done" person? If everybody on the team is working the soil, is your prospective team member "above it all," either because he or she is lazy, too egomaniacal, or too obsessed with enjoying the harvest that is being sown and reaped by his or her teammates? Someone who likes to stay away from all of the dirt and detail, small-time operational problem-solving, and things that are not included in his/her "Executive Job Description" is not so much an entrepreneur as an opportunist.

4. Is this person willing to be an active participant in the venture, and take the journey with you and your team?

5. Is this person socially skilled enough that he/ she can truly become an integrated part of the team? Does this person know how to communicate, to listen and to openly share?

6. Does this person have a hidden (or obvious!) personal agenda that he or she is merely using your team to help him or her to achieve? Does it conflict with your team's agenda, or does it coincide and harmonize with your plan for the team?

7. How would you feel about introducing this person to a third party as your partner or teammate? This question goes straight to your gut. You can either build yourself up or destroy your own reputation by those people whom you choose to keep company with -- you are judged by the company you keep. [This is sad, but true]

Your choice of teammates is actually your choice of Human Capital - the most important assets in the world. If these assets aren't truly adequate, you're going to fail. Tainted assets and attitudes will destroy or dissuade your very best Human assets if you put them together on the same ship. Choose your team members well.

Each team member should not only be a helpful addition to the team's collective competence and synergistic potential, but should be interested in the success of the whole venture and in the success of all of its participants.
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NOTE: An aside to those of you whose skill sets are truly centered around any or all of the following "personal and professional assets":

1. You want to wait for the best opportunity for yourself, and you want to join the team as one of your options. After all...it might get funded, and your stock could be valuable if you just hang around;

2. You are good at proposing ideas for others to execute, but do not like to participate in the raw sweat work of getting things started;

3. You do not really believe in either the team's objective, your teammates' abilities, or the leader of your team;

4. You are ggod at delegating and instructing, but you do not want to "put yourself out on a limb" to negotiate as necessary and to recruit capable people to delegate this work to;

5. You generally have a "let's wait and see attitude."

My message to those of you (the vast majority of the population) who feel a resonance with the five characteristics listed immediately above should not be entrepreneurs. If you are fortunate enough to have a high-payiong trade or profession, stay with that. If you don't have either of those advantages, put on your best smile, polish those shoes and prepare a batch of resumes at Kinko's - some company might have sufficient funds to expend on sustaining you, and you might be hired! (too bad about the rough economy though). Some government "employment opportunities" and even financial aid might be worth looking into.

On a personal note, if you are a member of the vast majority of the persons described above, please do not waste your time, or anybody else's, on trying to take up space on an entrepreneurial team. You are probably not an entrepreneur, or a true team player.

Most importantly, please don't attempt to engage me in conversation -- I am far too busy working to create value for my teammates and myself. I might even be out there in the field helping my teammmates work the soil. As a leader, my job is to serve my team. As a teammate, each member of my team is working to serve all of the other team members.

Nothing less would be acceptable to either my teammmates or myself.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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"Desperate times do not call for desperate measures. They call for focus, analysis and fast responsiveness" - Douglas Castle

"Desperate times do not call for desperate measures. They call for focus, analysis and fast responsiveness" - Douglas Castle

p.s. Would someone kindly mention this to the world's government and business leaders?

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Persuasion By Insinuation - How I Got Onto A Fully-Booked Air Flight - Douglas Castle

Persuasion By Insinuation - How I Got Onto A Fully-Booked Air Flight - Douglas Castle


Marketing is about getting attention -- but it also requires delivering a message which contains a demand for action. Your must be pursuasive not only by using descriptive language, but by actually letting your quarry's imagination do the rest. Politicians, spin doctors, and teens wanted to spent the night somewhere where they probably shouldn't have all used some variation on this approach.

Summary:
It uses an incomplete, but not untruthful story to stimulate the imagination of the audience, prospect, nosy mother, victim or (in this case) the airline ticket agent.

Lingovation - What I've Named This Technique:
"Persuasion By Insinuation"


Real-Life Example:

Because of massive winter snowstorms by flight from Florida to my favorite airport in Westchester County, New York had been cancelled.

Flights were being cancelled, postponed and redirected because of the inclement weather.

I went up to the ticket agent (a kindly-looking woman, who looked like a hybrid of Angelina Jolie and Aunt Bea), and asked if there was a chance that I might get onto the next flight going to my favorite airport. She indicated, sadly, that the next flight, scheduled to leave in five hours was fully booked, with passengers on standby. She then added that the next flight would not be until the next day! What to do... What to do...

I first asked her if she could re-check the next flight to see if something might have changed or somebody might have cancelled, leaving a seat available. She sympathetically nodded, checked her computer manifest, and told me "No sir. I'm so sorry. Every single seat is taken."

Suddenly, inspiration struck me. I looked directly into her eyes (she had two), with a slightly panicked expression, and with my hands trembling slightly, and said, "Oh my God. I'll miss my treatment!" I then wrung my hands, looked down at the floor, and then met her eyes again. She responded, "Let me see what I can do." I said, "Thank you so much, Miss. You're a lifesaver."

She attacked her keyboard with inspired ferocity, and smiled at me, saying, "It appears that I can get you a boarding pass for one seat that IS available on the next flight, Mr. Castle." Without hesitation, she printed out a boarding pass, and handed it to me with a compassionate, Florence Nightingale/ Mother Theresa expression on her face.

I thanked her profusely.

Yes. I still feel guilty. I didn't have any "treatment." I wasn't in pain. But I am convinced that she had bumped some faceless passenger from the flight because she had seen me as a vulnerable person needing her help, and that she had the power to do something righteous. Many people like to be saviors. I had touched her personally, and had, in a few minutes, become a Human Being in need of her help.

It was the confluence of Persuasion and Compassion that served as her call to action.

What does this have to do with marketing? Everything.

Apply what you've learned here using your conscience as your compass, and only to the extent required. Don't make a habit of abusing people by utilizing the sins of implication and omission - but don't stay one more night in Florida than you have to if you need to get back to New York. Amen.

And now I'm off to my local house of worship to pray for forgiveness...

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Mobile Apps and Texting - BRAINTENANCE

Mobile Apps and Texting - BRAINTENANCE

Dear Fellow Thinkers, and Those Who Are Currently Thinking About Thinking:

Firstly, a quick saying about life for the day:

"We sank, therefore I swam" (with apologies to Descartes)

Secondly, a Bit Of Commentary:

With mobile applications and text communications tools becoming more plentiful, more capable and more accepted by the public daily, we actually have less time and space to get our messages across than ever before. An exceedlingly long message might now consist of 140 characters (including spaces)-- a more reasonable one might be: RU? ("Are you?").

We have to learn to master the art of minimalist communications. While annoying and largely ineffective (as well as corrosive of the very foundations of civilized discourse), we can have fun with them.

Here, for example, is a dialogue between a prospective diner patron and a waitress (Flo) at breakfast time, as it might be done via texting or mobile app mobilization. Your mission is to decode it:

He: FUNEMNX?

She, Responding: SVFMNX!

Translation:

He: "Have you any ham and eggs?"

She: "Yes, we have ham and eggs!"

We are indeed entering a brave new world. RUOK? IM.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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