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Personal and Professional Growth - Don't Go It Alone!

2011-07-18T10:49:00.002-04:00

Most people do not like to work alone, in isolation -- at least not for long expanses of time and when facing difficult decisions. Generally speaking, asking for advice (a kind of "virtual teaming") and developing relationships with mentors, advisors, and experts might solve two common career/ entrepreneurial problems at the same time:

1) Getting over the feeling of isolation, and engaging in too much unhealthy introspection and self-doubt;

2) Getting the help and advice you need for better decision making and growth;

Never underestimate the benefits, both psychological and strategic, of developing a support network. Two words? Friendly Support.

Read on...

You will always need help and advice for your business, as you will for your life and professional career advancement. With growth and with forward momentum, your needs will actually increase; but then, you will have greater financial resources to barter for what you need, and a better-established network of tried-and-true support and resource providers to provide you with help and advice

If you are a smaller but rapidly-growing business, or a professional at the beginning of his or her career, there are many sources from which to choose -- the trick seems to be just how to ask for the advice or help that you need.

The resources can generally be found by doing a series of simple Google searches under a number of general search terms. A great number of these services are provided through various government agencies (at different levels...city, state, industrial district, province, national) at little or no cost. More of these can found by speaking with departments of commerce, business development offices, economic development offices, free trade zone administrations, embassies and consulates (especially for import or export ventures), and through participation and inquiries in a number of social media groups. There are often professional associations or societies which specialize in the type of guidance or resources which you need.

Some very valuable mentors, advisors, prospective directors, co-venturers and even investors can be found through properly-focused networking.

Once again, the issue is how to ask.

Here are some very general guidelines:

1. Before engaging in any discussions, prepare a list of exactly what types of help you need, and in what capacity;

2. Try to make inroads to sources of advice and help before your situation becomes urgent.

3. Be extraordinarily polite, straightforward and honest about exactly what your needs are. Show your appreciation and gratitude for the time that any prosective advisor or helper is prepared to spend with you. Personalized thank you notes (via email, with your communication coordinates, company name, and a brief reference to the nature of your company's business included).

4. Choose your words with diplomatic precision when asking. It is far better to say "I know that a person with your background and in your position must be extraordinarily busy, but I'd be very grateful if you would lend me some of your expert insights into ... If this time is inconvenient, please let me know when I may call you so as not to disrupt your day...," than "We need somebody who...".

5. Do a thorough Google search on the person with whom you will be speaking so that you can show that you took the time to learn about his or her education, experience, expertise and achievments. People are flattered (unless they are in the Federal Witness Protection Program) to learn that you cared enough to invest some of your time getting to know about them;

6. Be prepared with an executive summary, a comprehensive bio, or a PowerPoint business profile which you can easily attach to an email and send to the persons with whom you speak. If you host these on a fileserver, provide a live hyperlink so that your newly-discovered ally may easily download them. Show that you are organized, prepared, enthused and likely to succeed in your efforts;

7. Take a brief period of time to interview your newly-developed contact -- to ask questions about his or her life's experience. People love to talk about themselves (with the exception of those suffering from catatonia and those working as undercover crimefighters). Be patient. Listen. Learn. Give sincere praise. Show admiration.

8. Always follow-up with these important Human Assets to let them know that you are taking their advice and that you are putting their suggestions into play. It will please them to know that A) you've taken them seriously, and B) that you are responsible and respectful enough to report to them.

If you are prepared, polite and demonstrate some humility, these people will quite often go out of their way just to be extra helpful.

Start Googling for the resources that you need. And use the telephone to establish contact at first. If they are too busy or unavailable, follow-up with an email inquiring as to their avialability, being certain to mention that you had first tried to reach them by telephone directly.

Faithfully,

Douglas E Castle
http://entrepreneurialadviceandinsights.wordpress.com/
http://humanitasmaximus.blogspot.com/
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"Political Posturing Versus Honesty - Domestic And International Sabotage."

2011-06-25T22:15:00.000-04:00

In the ritual of politics, the art of deceit (either through lying, omission or conflictory action) is, apparently a necessity. Politicians want to announce what they they believe their respective constituencies want to hear ("on the record"), but their actions tell much more about what they truly desire. I have discussed this type of two-faced conduct more than once in The Internationalist Page Blog, and with numerous other blogs which I author through the TNNWC Blogosphere.

An Illustrative case-in-point follows: An entire legislative body vociferously condemns a president's participation in a military incursion, claiming an "abuse of a certain 'War Powers Act' " -- even citing that the president's action is unlawful as well as distasteful.

Ironically, after condemning the president's action by an overwhelming majority, the same representitives of the populace agreed to continue funding the 'allegedly legal' activity. This would seem to be tacit support of a military action that this same hypocritical pack of self-righteous and pedantic prevaricators had just condemned in the most severe terms.

An excerpt from a New York Times article follows. Please read it, and come back here [ I'll be waiting impatiently...and come back soon because you know how much I worry]:

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, June 24, 2011 -- 2:51 PM EDT
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House Spurns Obama on Libya but Does Not Cut Funds

The House of Representatives dealt a symbolic blow to President Obama on Friday by resoundingly failing to approve a bill authorizing the contentious military operations in Libya. But the House stopped short of a total desertion of a war-time president by also rejecting a measure to limit financing to support the military operations.

Read More:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/house-takes-up-a-rebuke-to-obamas-libya-policy/?hp&emc=na
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Entrepreneurs, conducting their businesses globally (refer to TNNWC's International Connections Service - "ICS") have no need to posture, position and lie. They are truly the world's future "citizen ambassadors." And their greatest thrust will be in the areas of a) honest commerce, and b) the spirit of cameraderie. Some helpful links follow:

Communicate: Make Yourself Understood, and Listen To Others Carefully! [A Quiz Follows]

2011-06-20T16:57:00.001-04:00

"There is a science (and a component of art) to communicating clear instructions or directions. There is also a corresponding science (and a component of art) to following instructions or directions precisely. It is quite rare to find a person in whom either of these skills is well-developed; it is almost inconceivably rare to find a person in whom BOTH of these skills are well-developed." - Douglas E Castle

This delightful Braintenance offering is brought to you through the good offices (I haven't actually visited them, so I'm merely being polite) of Dr. Daniel Benor. Every project manager, management consultant, engineer, CEO, COO, attorney, physician, leader and entrepreneur should take this test. The paradox here is that very intelligent individuals have a natural tendency to be impatient, and to "jump the gun" to arrive at answers. In this particular test, the performance advantage is on the side of the more studious and methodical among us.

Fact: The most obvious things tend to elude even the most clever minds.

The best aspect of this test is not what it measures -- it is that in taking the test, itself, you will receive a valuable lesson in how your mind works. Think of the educational efficiency of this device: You actually learn by the act of taking a test. Elegant, eh?

It presents a wonderful opportunity to test your Practical Intelligence Quotient in the form of several quick questions. Read the instructions carefully before you begin.

Hint: Do not assume anything. Utilize all of the facts presented to answer the questions, one after the next. Your growing (cumulative) knowledge base will help you to answer each question in the sequence correctly. When you've finished, you will likely want to forward this article to several friends and colleagues, as well as some of your family members, if you are actually on speaking terms with them.

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There are 4 simple questions. Don't miss one.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

Stop and think about it and decide on your answer before you scroll down.

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

2 How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator?

Wrong Answer.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions..

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend .... Except one. Which animal does not attend?
Correct Answer : The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory. Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.

4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer:? You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

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According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, approximately 90% of the Professionals whom they tested got all of the questions wrong, but many of the preschoolers who were given the same test arrived at several correct answers.

Anderson Consulting Worldwide says this conclusively proves the theory that "most professionals do not have the brains of a four-year-old."

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TNNWC believes that the above conclusion is a bit ridiculous, overly generalized and poorly-worded (I personally detest the part about the "brains of a four-year-old": because A) someone is apparently confusing the plural with the singular and the notion of intelligence with brains; and B) depending upon your interpretation of the Anderson conclusion, this does not preclude the lugubrious possibility that these tested professionals do not have, either in their offices or their homes, the actual brains of four-year-olds preserved in mason jars [ecch!].

But the one useful conclusion derived from this exercise upon which our TNNWC Experts and Advisors would agree would be that presumptions can be hazardous in effective decision making.

Did I hear someone say "Amen?"

Faithfully,

Douglas E Castle

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Maximize Personal, Professional and Business Creativity

2011-05-29T14:17:00.001-04:00

How do you maximize your value as a Human Asset, both to yourself, and to those around you? One way is to increase your creativity, Creativity is at the start of every process -- starting with Genesis. In the words of a great philosopher, "As ye think, and as ye will, so shall it be."
"Creativity is the spark which ignites and incites innovation, entrepreneurship, invention, scientific and social breakthroughs, the creation of great works and all of society's progress. To find the wellspring of creativity and to be able to access it at will is every thinker's dream." DC

Where do brilliant ideas come from? Those ideas which produce insights, breakthroughs and inspiration for inventors, entrepreneurs and leaders? For great Mathematicians and scientists? For Artists?

I have heard numerous references to the "Akashic Records," "Cosmic Consciousness," the "One Universal Mind," "Spirit Guides," "Guardian Angels," and "Masters." I have yet to endorse any of these individual terms, or the theories which underlie them, but I will admit that there is something there.

Perhaps the source of it is subconsciously internal (within us), or perhaps superconsciously internal (within us, but sparked by access to some giant, timeless outside body of knowledge and energy which we do not quite fully understand.

For the purposes of self-growth, professional achievement and business success, we are always looking for ways to tap into a reservior of creativity -- wherever and whatever it actually is. Some of us attempt to access this through groupthink and brainstorming sessions, meditation (transcendental, hypnotic, transmission, yoga, visualization, lucid dreaming, NLP, subliminal videos and tapes, listening to Mozart and the like) or other techniques.

What does matter is that we keep our minds open to some of these amazing possibilities -- perhaps we should even experiment with a variety of them to "open the door" to inspiration and energies that ordinarily seem elusive to us. I would urge you to experiment in the laboratory of your life.

In BRAINTENANCE, ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVICE AND INSIGHTS, REASON OUT OF RANDOMNESS and in numerous of my other blogs I have alluded to this...

Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Leaders: The Ultimate Creative Resource

On this subject, I received the following email today with an embedded video about celebrated author Napoleon Hill and one of his "secrets."

I do not endorse the producers of the newsletters or the video, either in terms of agenda, philosophy, content or product, but I definitely recommend that you give the brief letter and the video some serious consideration:

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Back in 1937, a man by the name of Napoleon Hill pissed off a lot

of people.

The source of this consternation was his book called 'Think and

Grow Rich'.

In this book was a mental visualization technique that Hill himself

was hesitant to even reveal - and that his publisher was this close

to axing, for fear of public backlash.

It was called the 'Invisible Counselor' technique.

What exactly is it?

Hill describes it as a visualization exercise that allows you to tap

into the imaginary minds of anyone living or dead, to source ideas

and inspiration.

Which means you could use it to have a chat with Gandhi. A coffee with

Churchill. Or a meeting with Socrates.

Weird? Fascinating? Impossible? You decide - check out this video:

>>> The Invisible Counselor technique (no sign-up necessary), or go to http://www.quantumjumping.com/special/counselors-technique.

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I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on the matter, if you would simply return to this page after watching this thought-provoking video abou the author of Think And Grow Rich.

Faithfully,

Douglas E. Castle, Chairman, TNNWC Group, LLC

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Behavioral Psychology
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Coaching and Mentoring
Collections
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Courage
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Creative Positive Visualization
Creativity
Credit and Collections
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Crisis Resolution
Customer satisfaction
Decisionmaking
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Delegation
Diversification
Drastic Measures
Eliminating Liabilities
Employee Benefits
Espionage
Expectation Management
Exploration and Experimentation
Focus
Forecasts
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Gathering Intelligence
Getting Answers
Getting Attention
Getting It Done
Giving Instructions
Hiring and Firing
Hypnosis
Identifying Your Assets
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Inbound Marketing
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Inspirational Quotes
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Organizational Structure
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Problem-Solving
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Reaching Agreements
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Reducing Unproductive Costs
Regulatory Issues
Rewarding Achievement
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The Critical Path
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Be Decisive - Settling Is For Dust, Not For Persons Of Achievement.

2011-05-13T20:44:00.000-04:00

Q: How many times have you heard somebody complain (paradoxically) by answering the age-old question, "How are you doing?" with "I guess I can't complain..."?

A leader minimizes the time spent complaining, and maximizes the time spent changing things by taking constructive, precipitous action.

Only three components are truly necessary to achievement.

The first one is the seminal moment in the evolution or discovery of an idea, a motif or a notion. You visualize it. You look at where you are, and where you'd prefer to be. If you merely stop at the point of visualization, you will never achieve anything, and you never will have even communicated yout thought to someone who might be driven enough, or inspired enough to act.

The second one is where you express it to another person or group of people. Sometimes, if time is of the essence, you merely mouth the words to yourself. But words give a sort of life to thoughts. Words can lead to change; but only if those words translate into physical action.

The third is the one that is seldom reached; and when it is initiated, it is very commonly abandoned, or subjected to procrastination -- it is relegated to a position of less importance, and it recedes into the distance of memory.

Three steps:

1. THOUGHT

2. WORD

3. ACTION

Sometimes it is advisable to omit the second step. Sometimes it is advisable to push forward hard on the third step -- sometimes action must be sustained to achieve momentum -- to get the Jeep over the hill; and, then again, sometimes you take an action that produces a counter-reaction which requires that you change your course of action again. The process is dynamic, and constantly requires fine-tuning.

But without action, all of the visualization and conversation in the world will never truly create change. Let your words always be a call to action.Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/
http://www.LinkedIn.com/company/tnnwc

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You must take action as soon as you know what needs doing.

There is always a point where excessive contemplation, consensus and growing inertia -- and that point is almost immediately after a brilliant idea is put into words.

Unless these words are put immediately into action, momentum is lost, and progress is actually reversed.

Here is something that I culled from a letter to me from Mark Joyner, the Founder of Simpleology (http://www.simpleology.com/):

Her name was Florence Nightingale, noted as the single most important pioneer of Nursing. She was born to a family of great privlege, but chose to spend her days tending to those wounded in battle. This quote bears repeating: "I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

p.s. "Action" is the very thing which differentiates entrepreneurs from dreamers, and leaders from followers. Think about it. Then say it (even to yourself). And then, while it is still in the forefront of your consciousness, before it is obscured by an accumulation of the mundane duties and thoughts of the day, and tucked away in the world of "almost," - take that action.

As they say at Nike - Just Do It.

Excuses are for cowards - people afraid of failure, afraid of success, or too indolent and contented with the cozy cocoon of politically correct and acceptable mediocrity to push the envelope, or open the shades and allow the light to come streaming in.

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The Frightening Journey To Being Successful

2011-05-03T10:35:00.000-04:00

Dear Friends, Colleagues, TNNWC Members, Bloggers, Entrepreneurs, Team-Leaders, Visionaries and Musicians With Their Songs Unsung:

"Fear is the pervasive fog that we must somehow walk through in order to see the clear, untarnished image in the mirror which shows us our gifts, our beauty, our opportunities and our best selves." - Douglas Castle

I am curious as to whether this greatness is within us at the start of our walk, or if the walk, of itself, makes us into the greatness that looks back upon us at the end of the dimensionless, all-enshrouding fog of fear.

My suspicion is that most of us see the fog rolling in and retreat, or we advance slightly, only to get lost wihin its indiscernible depths and remain there, prisoners in our own recognizance.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Business Building Workaholics and Thei Psychological Health

2011-04-28T22:44:00.000-04:00

"A famous hunk of statuary, and a frequent target for pigeons."

Dear Friends, Fellow TNNWC Members, DAZZ enthusiasts, collaborators, and Jeffrey:

A business leader, entrepreneur, a workaholic or even an idle person with too much time available and too much gray matter can actually spend incessant mental cycles thinking about thinking, wearing his noggin to the nub.

This is why entrepreneurs and workaholic business and professional persons should take up hobbies, find sources of healthy irrelevent distraction and take frequent breaks from their activities. Things of a physical and repetitive nature (which require minimal cerebration) seem to work best.

By the way, have I mentioned anything to you about my either of my blogs, BRAINTENANCE at http://braintenance.blogspot.com/ or IMAGES BY DOUGLAS CASTLE at http://imagesbydouglascastle.blogspot.com/? I had not actually intended to do so, but it's too late now. A bell, as they say cannot be unrung. Sadly this mention of two of my other blogs seems like self-serving promotion, and will probably give this posting a certain advertorial flavor.

Please accept my apologies for my having mentioned the two blogs above, which, along with http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/, I shall not mention again.

And now for an example of a dangerous pattern of paradoxical and iterative thinking which can occur when one thinks too much about thinking. This is a strenuous intellectual activity which can cause permanent brain damage in the event that the damage is not temporary.

Below, for your review, is a bit of correspondence, with some of the information changed in order to protect the identity of one or more parties:

Subject: TEST TO DOUGLAS

Douglas,

This is simply a test to ensure my mail is getting through to you sending it from gmail.com online site. Simply reply when you receive this email.
- Your Associate

Dear Sir:

I refuse to dignify your "testy" email missive with a reply.

Yet in saying so, I have in fact dignified this very subject correspondence with a communication which could be construed as a reply, which is precisely what I'd hoped not to do. I am further upset by your clever means of trapping me into dignifying that which I had wished to not to dignify.

If you would be kind enough to dispose of this email without reading it (and forever remain silent about your having received it, or about my having sent it), your email to me shall in some fashion remain undignified by a response which you have (ostensibly) not read -- in effect, it would be as if I'd never been ensnared into sending it to you in the first place.

But there again, you've got me. For if you discard this email, the mere act of your having done so will have been at my instruction, which you most obviously could only have received through a communication initiated by me or one of my minions.

I will likely remain awake all night trying to resolve this unsolvable dilemma, which is extremely saddening, considering that I have already ascertained that the dilemma is obviously not resolvable.

Somewhere a tree is falling in a forest -- and although I shall not have heard it, it shall have made a noise.

I think that I need a break from work.

Douglas ("Diogenes") Castle

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Douglas Castle Apologizes For An Annoying Technical Glitch.

2011-04-20T17:33:00.001-04:00

Dear Readers (Entrepreneurs, TNNWC Members, Colleagues, Business Leaders, Innovators, Project Managers, Commanders of Growing Companies, Braintenancers, Global Futurists, Internationalists, Marketers, Trend-Watchers, Trend-Setters, and Friends):

Subject: Douglas Castle Apologies for An Annoying Technical Glitch.

Q: Conspiracy or Catastrophic Compound Error?

It's simple. I am not certain whether it was due to a deadly conspiracy involving a collaborative effort among Twitterfeed, Hellotxt and Ping, or whether it was the result of an extremely unlikely catastrophic compound error (Do I sound paranoid? Are you talkin' to me?), but my status updates have been prodigiously posting themselves to many of my blogs without my knowledge or consent.

Since this began two days ago, I have had a "Blue Ribbon Panel" of "experts" working on solving the problem, and after much debate (mostly over who would be responsible to pay for lunches, and how much of a gratuity we should give the delivery kid), they have assured me that the mechanism has been repaired.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you, and I thank you for your patience and for reading me and my guest contributors.

Faithfully, and in the spirit of friendship,

Douglas Castle
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Crisis Management, Communications and Control

2011-04-09T09:57:00.001-04:00

Crisis Management and Communications.

This article written by Douglas Castle and originally published in Expert Advice And Insights From TNNWC, a publication of TNNWC and The National Networker Companies.

Every leader and team participant who plays an integral role in your company has an obligation to every colleague. If you are in an entrepreneurial enterprise or small business this obligation is all the more critical, in how it is handled and it involves observation, communication, messaging, problem-solving and reporting on the status of any anticipated or actualized crisis. While we'd all prefer to follow a strategic business plan and make incremental, expedient organized progress toward achieving our objectives, crises arise -- it is the nature of business (i.e., problem-solving to achieve an objective) to throw us the occasional crisis or catastrophe. Each one is a test.

If you either recognize or anticipate a crisis that you cannot immediately resolve yourself, you must:

1) Determine all parties within your company who may be affected, and how they may be affected;

2) Immediately notify the parties whose efforts could be a) damaged the most, and b) who are best equipped to handle the crisis so that those parties can make alternative arrangements, or attend to the critical issue. Information and intelligent, reasoned action can contain a small problem and keep it from being catapulted into a catastrophe. If the water is going to be turned off, if your web server is acting up, if the email system isn't going to be working, if payroll is going to tight, if a vendor is no longer qualified to supply your company or if an employee has been terminated, this message must be sent out to everybody affected with efficiency and immediacy;

3) Get the message out directly (yourself, without waiting for a committee meeting, or any other bureaucratic waste of precious time) via email, telephone, or text to all parties who will be affected or may be affected -- it is important, before a crisis ever emerges, that you have established multiple lines of communication to each member of your organization in case of emergency, and that you have a means of signalling that a crisis is in process, or that a crisis is anticipated;

4) Update all affected personnel of what actions are being taken to resolve the critical issue, what they can expect, and an estimated (conservative) timeframe for repair. This is what those folks in Human Resources refer to as "expectation management;"

5) Remember - early, honest notice of a crisis, and updates until it is resolved minimize the organizational and emotional trauma of the crisis, the ancillary damage that might otherwise be caused by a lack of information or by misinformation. A crisis should not be a big secret - it should be competently contained until it can be remedied and business can go back to "work as usual." [ahhh.....]

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The better that you manage a crisis, the less that it will pull you and your team or organization off course. In fact, well-handled crisis management doesn't create the desperation and/or confusion associated with negative surprises or exponentialized rumors -- it is more analogous to improvising lines in a play when you've forgotten part of the script.

How you handle a critical situation will determine if you are meant to lead, or merely menat to attend to the limited scope of your job. Going further, leaders are made because of how they have handled critical situations. For those of you who appreciate silver linings, a crisis represents an opportunity for leaders to develop and to be recognized. Now onward with your mission, captains, commanders and leaders of growing companies, both existing and to be recognized.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Perspective - Your Character.

2011-04-06T17:26:00.001-04:00

Note: The article which follows originally appeared in The BRAINTENANCE Blog, prior to its publication in HUMANITAS MAXIMUS and THE INTERNAL ENERGY PLUS Blog. Each of these blogs is a planet orbiting about the TNNWC website (the star) in a vast constellation in cyberspace. Management, leadership, decision making, messaging, buzzing, blogging, reputation management, customer satisfaction and any other factor which affects us either as individually-purposed Human Beings, or as members of entrepreneurial enterprises made up of others working collaboratively. Any topic relating to the aforementioned areas of focus is fair game.

Dear Cranial Vault Keyholders and Honorary Cardholders:

To be a team leader, a manager, or a coordinator, you must lead by example, and you must be prepared to demonstrate the integrity of your character and the legitimacy of the motivations which precipitate your actions. You are being watched by others. What's more, you are constantly making choices and introspectively (as well as retrospectively) examining your own motives. Others may have to deal with your style of leadership or management, but you have to deal with yourself.

This is going to hurt just a bit, but you might want to think about who you are given these real-life situations:

1) You're the owner of a start-up business venture, and you are pushing the speed limit while driving your hybrid car in the left-hand lane (in the US). You are about to meet a major equity investor. You're running late. The fellow in the car directly in front of you is wavering from lane to lane without signaling, and gently tapping on the brakelights at seemingly random intervals. You scream "You flipping idiot!"

2) Your boss likes to come into the office very early in the morning, and after dinnertime in the evening at random times. He clearly wants to see who is working (by his standard, which involves employees remaining at their desks for many hours), and enjoys this "surprise approach." It is Friday evening, and you have a dinner date with your soul mate -- but you are breking into a sweat at the thought of leaving before 6:30 pm. You may be quite late for your date, who will be waiting at a restaurant where you've made reservations.

3) You are a soldier on the field of battle. An unarmed man, terrified, is kneeling on the ground in front of you with his hands atop his head, on his knees, pleading for his life. You believe that he is a civilian. Your commanding officer stands behind you, puts his gun up to the back of your head, cocks the trigger and says, "Shoot him, private, or I'll shoot you."

4) You have quit smoking after many years. You have not had a cigarette in four months. In your top office desk drawer, you have an unopened pack of cigarettes that you haven't thrown away, and cannot seem to part with...

5) You abhor cheating on examinations. You are in a very competitive class. Most of the other students cheat. They are circulating an unlawfully purloined copy of tomorrow's upcoming exam, obviously without the professor's knowledge. You think to yourself, "I hate cheaters. These people are disgusting. But if I don't get a high grade in this course, I'll lose out on my chance to get into a great graduate school program..."

In each of the above-proposed scenarios, what do you do, and how does that make you feel about yourself? Think hard.

Good Luck.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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2011-04-02T14:39:00.002-04:00

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YOUR LIFE: Entrepreneurial Inspiration And Brilliant Advice

2011-03-29T09:50:00.001-04:00

YOUR LIFE: Entrepreneurial Inspiration And Brilliant Advice

Dear Readers, Colleagues, TNNWC Members, Thought-Leaders and Entrepreneurs:

My wife brought the quote which follows to my attention yesterday. It was taken from a commencement address given by Steve Jobs (the visionary leader of Apple Computer) to students at Stanford University several years ago. As you likely already know, Steve Jobs has had to contend with some tremendous health challenges. He chose to strengthen himself because of his battle with adversity, instead of becoming a cynic or a pessimist.

The essence of the message is to "live each and every moment of every single day as if it were your last." For most of us, we take far too much for granted until we are threatened with serious loss. Jobs' message is not wasted on anyone who is still alive. For while we are still alive, the possibilities are limitless -- unless we chose to resign ourselves to a very small, mundane world, and a routine life of not making a difference.

Yes. It's true. Most men live their lives in quiet desperation. Women do too. Desperation is the dark side of ourselves, while dreams, ambitions and action, with a sense of urgency, are overwhelming evidence of the bright side. Make a choice, leaders, entrepreneurs, would-be activists -- choose to heed Steve Jobs' advice and do not fear the mission ahead. Instead of living with regret, or with wasting time on endless critical introspection, move ahead with your plans. The plans that your heart tells you are truly meant for you.

Proceed with passion.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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Steve Jobs, commencement address, Stanford University 2005:

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

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United By Fear - Human Nature

2011-03-25T21:35:00.001-04:00

This article was written by Douglas Castle for original publication in The Internationalist Page Blog and in the GICBC (Global Interworked Cooperative Business Community) Blog.

Cooperation Born Of Tragedy

The brief article which appears below came to us courtesy of AP (the Associated Press), and would seem to illustrate how the fears which we have in common -- dare I say it -- the fears which we share tend to unite us when they are extreme enough, and powerful enough, to overshadow long-standing and fundamental differences in ideologies or objectives. Enemies are bound, by their fears, to initiate a means of cooperation. And that cooperation invariably starts with a reluctant, uncomfortable dialogue between two individual Human Beings.

Much as fear acts as a catalyst to bind us (when common interests or objectives don't readily serve that purpose, as pursuit of ambitions is never quite as compelling as a sudden bound with the type of fear that reduces us to children playing in the same sandbox...where our superficial differences do not define us as "better" or "worse"... they just make us each somehow special.

I believe that all persons, all leaders and all nations must search for those things which unite us, instead of investing so much time politicking about those things that divide us.

Admitting and addressing fears and solving common problems is the way we learn the lessons of cooperation and collaboration. If this behavioral shift (admittedly born of tragedy or desperation; in this case, the terrible catastrophe in Japan) proves to be successful, and problems are solved through working together, a great deal of mistrust and suspicion can eventually yield the way to strategic interdependence and synergy.

The article is very brief, but profoundly significant given the history between South Korea and North Korea. As my college thesis advisor had once said to me, "People are far too busy placing blame and fighting each other to actually solve 'real' problems. We're so immersed in our bickering and treasure hunting that we never look up to the sky above, only to realize that a giant meteor is headed for our planet and all of our time on the Earth has been uselessly squandered, with no second chance." It is not too late. Not yet.

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Two Koreas agree on rare volcano talks next week

Thu Mar 24, 4:01 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea says scientists from the two Koreas will meet next week to discuss joint research into an active volcano extolled in the North as the sacred birthplace of leader Kim Jong Il.

The talks could spark a rare bit of cooperation between the Koreas.

North Korea offered last week to discuss joint research on volcanic activities at its Mount Paektu, the highest peak on the peninsula. South Korea later proposed the countries' civilian experts discuss the matter at a South Korean border village on March 29.

Seoul's Unification Ministry says the North agreed Thursday to the offer, saying it will send three volcanologists to the meeting.

The volcano last erupted in 1903, but minor earthquakes increased there between 2002 and 2005.

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Maybe the oftimes seemingly indifferent Universe is sending us a brutal message about learning to be civilized.

I am not in the slightest a religious person, but perhaps --- perhaps there is a force far greater than anything that we could ever comprehend that is sending us a warning. I would like to think that this is a warning issued purposefully and sentiently out of some kind of love for Humankind.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Economic Inequity and Revolution? Enter: Dysteamia

2011-03-21T13:22:00.002-04:00

The dangerously growing gap between the rich and the poor. http://ping.fm/HfrJN.

My First Question: At what tipping point does the difference become so onerous and unconscionable to the poor majority that the seeds for revolution are firmly sown?

My Second Question: How close is the United States (one country among a number of others faced with the same disparity) to this theoretical "tipping point"?

My Third Question: What can be done to avert this type of "theoretical" calamity? The answer will not come from large monopolies or government "programs".

I believe that the answer lies in uniting and lobbying small businesses and in doing the same with consumer groups. That's the "hidden agenda" of TNNWC Group, LLC. Go to http://www.tnnwc.com/ and click on the "JOIN US" button. Be a part of an organization that is truly greater than the sum of its individual Members...SYNERGY!...this is quite the opposite of what is going on inside of some of these corporate juggernauts and the back offices of government. They are actually parties to a phenomenon which I will refer to as (this is a bona fide Lingovation) "Dysteamia".

Dysteamia is the result produced by a group where the sum of the parts is far greater than the whole -- the loss factor has to do with massive waste, gross mismanagement, or some thievery justified by an unmitigated sense of entitlement and excessive greed. Yes: dys - Team - ia.

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"Dysteamia Kills."

Japan's Tragedy Is Everyone's Tragedy - Take Action - Now

2011-03-16T21:04:00.001-04:00

Japan's Tragedy Is Everyone's Tragedy. Take Action. Now.

All of the compassionate peoples of this world, wherever you are, whatever you are doing... Please take a moment away from what you are doing to contribute whatever amount that you can -- we appreciate that these are challenging economic times -- to one of the socially-responsible and charitable organizations which are collecting and providing aid to the surviving victims of a tsunami which devastated much of Japan, a series of aftershocks (that may continue for months....or perhaps years), and now, the very real threat of a catastrophic nuclear meltdown of inestimable proportions.

Those of us at TNNWC send out our condolences, prayers and support to those who have died or have lost loved ones in this catastrophe. Please join us by contributing as much as you can to the relief effort -- right now. Time is critical. The clock is ticking. Please help.

To find a list of organizations to which you can give your contributions, simply click on this link, or copy and paste it into your browser (TNNWC is not affiliated with any of these organizations):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110311/wl_yblog_newsroom/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-to-help

Please be generous. Give Globally. Join the humanitarian effort to save lives. Every cent helps.

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Personal Thank You Notes -- A Rare And Powerful Touch

2011-03-07T14:00:00.001-05:00

Personal Thank You Notes -- A Rare And Powerful Touch

If you're a hardened business-minded cynic, as I am, you'll probably think that this is going to be one of those sissy "conventional wisdom" puff piece articles. But you'd be wrong. So there.

Dear Friends, Readers, Colleagues and Fellow TNNWC Members:

A personal note (as a follow-through to a conversation or a meeting) is becoming increasingly rare. A personal thank you note is even rarer. This makes it all the more precious.

A thank-you note, whether it is a small hand-written sticky note or a more formalized email casts a gracious and dignified light on the sender.

When the Founder of TNNWC Group, Adam J.(whatever that stands for ) Kovitz mails me anything, he always encloses a small post-it note saying "thank you." It is one of the things that makes him outstanding in an increasingly hostile and de-personalized society. It is more than a gesture - it's a statement about the character of the sender. I have kept all of Adam's post-it notes [well, to be completely candid, it had occurred to me that they might fetch a high price at auction some day in the not-to-distant future when Adam comes to great fame and fortune...]

I have to start to send more thank you notes to people. They are a rare and personal touch that builds a stronger bridge of friendship and trust between the sender and the recipient. I know how wonderful I feel when I receive one.

I would suggest that you endeavor to do the same.

It will set us apart in an all-too-often indifferent world. It might even (at the risk of sounding mercenary) help win us better social and business relationships.

That is my entire message. If you'd like to go further, there is a personal story, but even if you stop right here, I've given you something to think about.

In fact, I'm going out to buy several quill pens and some fancy stationery right now.

- DC

The Story

Some years ago, during a particularly difficult time in my life, I decided to distract myself by delving into something new; something that would engage me physically, intellectually and emotionally.

I found my needed distraction when I decided, after interviewing several martial arts "masters," to study Jiu Jitsu under the instruction of Soke Joseph Droual of New York Martial Arts Hombu.

Soke (a term of mastery, which some translate to the "Founder," of a unique style, or "The Inheritor" of special teachings) intuitively knew what I needed, and trained me well. I thoroughly enjoyed our sessions. I earned my black belt due to our dedication to each other. Teaching and studying are two parts of a whole process - it truly requires a partnership between at least two persons to make learning possible. We established a close bond.

Over the years, our friendship has grown, and we have very often confided in eachother, exchanged warped jokes, groanworthy puns and musical metaphors. We speak on the telephone briefly (as we are both busy), but with incredible frequency.

Soke recently honored my Colleagues and myself by becoming a Member of TNNWC Group and one of our Advisors.

He is a master of four different martial arts, The Founder of The Internal Energy Plus System, a Member of the US Martial Arts Hall Of Fame, and an anti-bullying and anti-crime advocate and activist working in conjunction with Curtis Sliwa (of Guardian Angels fame), and a number of other organizations chartered to make children safer from the increasingly prevalent bullying and gang activities at schools, as well as organizations which are charged with the mission of empowering and protecting women from violence and abuse, such as NOWSA and has participated in such events as Voices For A Cause.

He's been interviewed numerous times on Long Island's WGBB Radio, as has had numerous mentions in The Long Islander, a popular Long Island newspaper.

This man of accomplishment recently took the time out to send me an email expressing his gratitute for our enduring friendship and for "all that I have done for him." It's ironic. From my perspective, he's done everything for me. I will not publish his letter here, as it was very personal, but I will publish my response:

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Honored and beloved Soke Joe:

Thanks are appreciated, but are highly unnecessary. You are my friend because we were brought together by a greater force to unite our efforts toward a greater and higher purpose.

If anything, I am indebted to you for teaching me some lessons about strategy and courage which have helped save my life (both literally and figuratively), and which have truly transformed me -- You were, and continue to be, the principal inspiration for the way in which I can take a stand in this world when others choose to retreat, to just turn the other way or to simply lie down.

Your teachings and trainings have changed me and have helped me to grow from within -- to strengthen my resolve and commitment to the things which I believe to be right.

Your training, insights, experiences and acumen have become a permanent part of the person whom I've become -- and I never could have accomplished so much without having walked into the dojo that day and asked you to be my teacher.

I will always stand with you.

Thank YOU, Soke.

With great love and respect,

Douglas

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A Government By And For The People - Something Truly Revolutionary In The Volatile Middle East.

2011-03-01T15:30:00.001-05:00

This article is a newly re-titled reprint of an earlier article which I sincerely believe is worth posting again. This is something frightening, but potentially wonderful. This is about social media, repressive governments, mass movement, and about an unforeseen and under-appreciated tipping point (with compliments to author Malcolm Gladwell) in the oxymoronic "War On Terror."

Most importantly, though, this article is about what can be achieved when people unite and rise up together, peacefully, toward a righteous objective.

There is a lesson here that I wish I knew how to articulate. I have tried my very best. -DC

ANTI-RADICAL, ANTI-VIOLENT SHIFT IN THE VOLATILE MIDDLE EAST - TRULY REVOLUTIONARY.

A combination of factors, not the least of which is the rapid international adoption of internet and social media technologies, has led to an historically unprecedented upheaval of the civilian populations of Middle Eastern and North African nations against their established leadership.

This movement is not only significant in its implications for the future of the entire region, but it is crucially significant in the way that these protest movements are being led by the public-at-large in each of these nations, and not by military or clerical groups.

Further, these protests, for the most part, have been extraordinarily free of violence on the part of the protesters. The movements within each of the affected countries are massive in size, and are being championed by crowds of unarmed civilians wielding banners and signs bearing anti-government slogans and messages. While the governments of some of these nations have used police and military force against the protesters in order to quash their growing impetus, the protesters are growing in number, in collective voice, and acts of weaponless defiance.

May these protesters win their freedom from oppressive, entrenched regimes – and may they win with minimal bloodshed and casualties among their numbers. There are many in this world who might learn by their stunning example of the power of numbers, and of the potential for non-radicalized change…a change to government by and for the People.

As an American citizen (as well as an Internationalist), I am greatly encouraged to see some of the signs of awakening democracy. I am nostalgic, if not more than a little wistful, as well.

Some further information follows for your review:

From The NEW YORK TIMES Afternoon News Summary

28 February 2011

News Analysis

As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees History Fly By

By SCOTT SHANE

The powerful protests spreading across the Middle East and North Africa have shunned the two central tenets of Al Qaeda's credo: murderous violence and religious fanaticism.

Egypt Prosecutor Sharpens Case Against Mubarak 12:26 PM ET
Protests in Oman Spread 11:16 AM ET | Regional Roundup

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

2011-02-27T12:24:00.001-05:00

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,

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

2011-02-23T18:34:00.001-05:00

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

2011-02-21T14:24:00.001-05:00

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?

2011-02-18T11:58:00.000-05:00

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.

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

2011-02-07T12:41:00.002-05:00

"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

2011-02-04T15:05:00.002-05:00

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

2011-02-03T13:35:00.002-05:00

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

p.s. At present, we are still required to use letters of the alphabet, but given enough time, we'll be communicating in universal symbols.

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Leadership Is Actually Quite Simple...

2011-01-24T23:23:00.001-05:00

Leadership Is Actually Quite Simple...

"Leadership? Simple! Inspire and unite your team with your vision and charisma; then expedite goal attainment while minimizing conflict." - Douglas Castle

The only tools that you require (and you can get them at almost any hardware store or delicatessen) are these:

1. A vision, and the ability to communicate it to others (and sometimes to refresh their memories) so that it is highly visible and "comes to life" in their hearts as well as in their heads.

2. The ability to demonstrate how the achievement of your vision benefits each and all of the members of the team, and how each team member will be making an important and emotionally-satisfying contribution for the benefit of all.

3. The ability to draw a plan which includes input from each member as well as a vital role to be played on the part of each member. In the planning process, you must serve as a moderator and a mediator (while maintaining focus and intensity) so that the plan produced will be the product of every team member's work.

4. The energy to drive the entire team toward the objective, and to consistently keep them on course even when they are fatigued, distracted or disillusioned, or while they are in conflict with the team or with individual members within the team.

5. The wisdom of King Solomon to make decisions which resolve conflicts without creating lasting bitterness, the inclination toward sabotage of the objective, and which minimize ongoing rivalries or enmity between any two parties, or between any one member and the entire group. You must be a warrior, a vigilant observer of subtle shifts in mood and momentum, and you must be perceived as a fair and reasonable judge and resolver of disputes.

Good luck to all of my friends and colleagues who aspire to be great leaders. Being a great leader requires more sensitivity, skill and balance than walking a greased, gossamer-thin tightrope without a net underneath you. You may be a hero, but you may be hated just as easily. You will be judged not only on your ability to get the team to the objective -- you will be judged on every decision that you make along the incremental process to goal attainment. You will be terribly lonely. You will feel infinitely responsible, but you will always be the ultimate source of blame. It will age you, and it will stretch you beyond any limits which you thought you had - and then stretch you further, until you fit the challenge.

The rewards will ultimately be quiet and introspective - you will have the knowledge, deep within you, of knowing that you lead the charge to achieve something that chnaged the world, or some aspect of it, for the better of the people for whom you felt responsible.

Leaders are necessary, but being in a position of leadership is an appalling responsibility for a mortal.

My only advice to you is this: Do not be a leader unless something needs to be done and you are consumed by the desire to get it done. It is a calling and a compulsion, much more than an opportunity or a social or business position. On occasion, I have thought of leadership as a punishment or exercise necessary in order for you, as a person, to evolve into somone or something better.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
Chairman and Director of Strategic Planning
TNNWC Group, LLC
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2011-01-23T22:33:00.001-05:00

I will be away from 1/24-1/28 & will not be posting, accessing emails or able to retrieve telephone calls. After 1/28 -- bring it on! - DC

Occasionally, You Can Actually ENJOY Your Job!

2011-01-19T13:50:00.001-05:00

NOTE: The fact of the matter is that I am having a wonderful time (which is not that challenging, as I am normally very entertained with challenges such as the matching up of socks in the early morning before a breakfast meeting, and looking for my glasses) with this doggone TNNWC GIST VIDEO campaign.

Quite seriously, I really enjoy the creative process, especially when it involves conveying an idea through a combination of wordsmithing and humor.

The "bonus fun" is the use of other people's graphics with my own embedded commentary, as well as the creation of such provocative truncated urls as http://bit.ly/LethalNapkin , http://bitly/2guys1napkin , and a few others that are so off base that they generate double takes -- I strive for this attention, as TNNWC Group strives to provide its clients with the optimal combination of penetrating technology and brilliant, incisive wit.

I offer this up for your enjoyment. - DC
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NOTE: Another in a series of shockingly (and annoyingly successful) TNNWC Gist Video promos follows for you to make fun of, and to laugh about with your high-falutin' friends. Well -- the Client is laughing all the way to the bank. Seriously, I enjoyed the results from, and responses, to this little ad piece (which was based upon a brief status update sent around by the notoriously out-of-the-box (and out-of-their-minds) TNNWC BUZZWORKS Buzz Team. Go, Team!--DC

Oh, am I ever so proud of this campaign! Thank you, me Buzzards, ye! A toast to Ye!

-- Douglas Castle

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Beware: The Threat To Every One Of Us. Test Yourself.

2011-01-19T13:06:00.002-05:00

BEWARE: The Threat To Every One Of Us. Test Yourself.

"When you start to forget who you are, and start to become an extension or the personification of what you do, you are ceasing to function as a fully-integrated Human Being and turning into a paper figure." - Douglas Castle

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Keep this "flight of the soul" in check. Don't let what you do, or what others think or expect of you serve to define you as a person. You must permit yourself to be yourself.

Who you are, when you peel back the layers of the years of neglect, abuse, disillusionment and conformity, is a complex, individual being, with early-formed impressions, dreams, likes, dislikes, ambitions, questions, a sense of wonderment, certain preferences and inclinations, and certain likes and dislikes. These are the metaphorical bricks and mortar of which you are constructed.

Do whatever it takes to cease your work from time to time, and to let your mind (memories, instinct, intuition, introspection, personal ethics, values, dreams and a great deal of wholesome, adventuresome childishness and limitless imagination). Whether it is listening to music, meditating, working out, playing a board game or a sport, taking a walk or calling up a childhood friend --- you must do it.

Do not let anyone but you define who you are.

My favorite meditative, relaxing means of recapturing my emotional and spiritual essence, as well as amping-up my creative energy is by listening to music (RadioDAZZ Music Breaks) that I enjoy several times a day. I takes me to a place where I can really be myself. It is like heart medicine for me.

I am the Chairman and Director Of Business Strategy for TNNWC Group, LLC -- but I am also Douglas Castle...and without him, I am merely a robot.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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Take A Quick Musical Break. RadioDAZZ thinks you may need one.

2011-01-16T00:16:00.001-05:00

Take a brief music break with RadioDAZZ. De-stress. Re-energize. Breathe. Refresh. "Out in the Country" http://bit.ly/refreshU RadioDAZZ

International Leadership - The New Paradigm - 01.14.2011

2011-01-14T19:10:00.003-05:00

International Leadership - The New Paradigm at 14th January, 2011

Article from The Internationalist Page (http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com) written by author Douglas Castle, Chairman of TNNWC Group, LLC.

Dear Friends, Futurists, and Internationalists:

During the course of these past three years, the entire world has seen and experienced an economic tsunami, a crisis of trust and faith in the most venerable institutions, and a growing divide between those few powerful persons in positions of authority and those many persons who constitute the masses.

The masses have universally become disenfranchised and distrustful of those in positions of authority and power. The members of the suffering masses are feeling either helpless or restless -- but few are trustful or happy with the status quo.

There is a new tie that binds all of those citizens of The Internationalist Community, The Global Village and the Human species -- we are all sharing a crisis of confidence, and a lack of qualified, trustworthy leaders with vision and true integrity.

There is a high probability that some of those currently in power, those currently insulated and ensconsed within the protective palaces which they have built by the sweat, toil and suffering of the barely-subsisting majority will be displaced within these next one to three years.

New leaders will no longer be able to depend upon sovereignty, patriotism, empty rhetoric and hate-mongering to unite the masses behind them and to keep their power. The Internet, the entropic economy and the mysterious changes in the dynamics of the weather have made those safeguards of bygone times a virtual (pun intended) impossibility.

New leaders, in addition to technological mastery and expert advice, will be required to exhibit qualities which the older, dying "guardians by divine right" have never had to bring to the fore.

New Leadership will have to demonstrate a genuine alignment with the populations for whom they are responsible, as well as those same populations to whom they will now have to be accountable. New leaders will have to serve their followers instead of merely stealing votes and money from them based upon half-truths and blind faith.

There will still be a use for weaponry and shows of military strength -- but these will now have to be tempered with a heartfelt passion for their followers, as well as for the causes, organizations and nations which these leaders will lead. There will be a need for empathy, as well as a desire to dominate and control.

New leaders will be tasked with not only leading, but with caring for their constitutents, adherents and followers. The metaphorical muscle of the heart, long neglected but often abused, will have to be strong in these leaders. In sum:

"The Greatest Leaders Must Have As Deep A Love For Their Followers As They Do For Their Sacred Ideals And Objectives." -- Douglas Castle

My borrowed time here has led me to believe that Love can be a strength as well as a weakness. Do not underestimate its power and role in enlightened leadership. -- DC

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2011-01-13T18:15:00.001-05:00

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2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life - Daily Burst Of Brilliance .001

2011-01-13T13:54:00.000-05:00

2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life

Dear Friends and Worthy Opponents:

My unsolicited advice to everyone (without exceptions or exclusions), includes 2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life. Learn and follow these simple suggestions, and you will enjoy a happier, much more productive life. Fail to learn and follow these suggestions at your own peril.

1) If you have a conflict or an issue with a person, take the time to communicate with that person directly, and do not operate through agents, gossip, or third parties. Communicate your own message directly to the person with whom you have a conflict or issue, and it is likely that either a) the issue can be resolved quickly, or, b) if this is not possible, you can begin to plan for the best alternative while preparing for the worst from the person whom you've confronted. Your most critical communications in life will be thoses that are one-to-one and direct;

2) Do not say anything to anyone which you would not want the entire world to know about, or to have attributed to you as the one who said it. Odds are that backbiting, insults and other "off-color" things which you say about someone else in "in private" will be repeated to some other party or parties at some time. When you speak, pretend that the videos are rolling, the microphones are on, and that the van parked halfway down your block is loaded with people from some secret government agency, monitoring your words and actions in the process of collecting testimony to use against you.

This is not paranoia...it is pragmatism. You can sign your own conviction, death warrant or epitaph by having your words heard or repeated to a third party in a different context. Do not be caught in a lie, or get yourself branded as a whiner, a snitch or a bigot. Two added advantages are that it is a) easiest to remember the truth and what you actually did and said, and b) you can never, ever be surprised by anyone using your own words or actions against you.

Best of all, living by these two rules will assure that you will always be thinking and speaking with sincerity, clarity and accountability.

Everything in life is "on the record."

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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YOU ARE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE - Douglas Castle

2011-01-06T14:23:00.001-05:00

If I could achieve mastery over my own mind, I could achieve mastery over my universe." - Douglas Castle

This is immutably true. Learn more about it -- please visit me at http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/, and click on the article with this same title to learn about a real problem, and a real solution.

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Predict Your Financial Success Using Your IQ and Your FICO Score! - BRAINTENANCE

2011-01-04T18:21:00.000-05:00

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Predict Your FINANCIAL SUCCESS Using Your IQ and Your FICO Score! - BRAINTENANCE.

There is much talk nowadays about maintaining your "creditworthiness" and your "solvency." Understandably, almost none of the information which you are hearing is actually valid -- and if some part of it is valid, it will change within hours so as to be inapplicable.

The FICO credit score is based upon a "lose-lose" mystery algorithm where no matter what you do (apply for credit cards, pay on time, don't use credit, always use credit, have had no bankruptcies but have gotten a parking ticket, own a home, are a squatter in a crackhouse, cancel a loan, pay off a loan, etc.) it will all have (for whatever reason) a negative impact on your FICO consumer credit score. On a scale of 0 to 800 (the highest), most people score between 470 and 670, neither of which are even good. If you spend money contesting derrogatory comments on your credit report, or if you dispute and take issue with fraudulently or wrongly assesed amounts, I would bet that that process would lower your score as well. FICO, SCHMICO.

Your conventionally-determined (the MENSA MANIACS go to all of these conventions where these things are determined) Intelligence Quotient ("IQ") score merely measures how well you will perform in an academic environment when confronted with academic problems. While it is possitively correlated with intelligence, it is no measure of total, useful, functional intelligence. Yet, people like to rate your life's potential by it. An IQ of 100, for example makes you average; an IQ of 125 or more makes you "superior"; an IQ of 149 or greater makes you a "genius," even if you trip over your own untied shoelaces and forget to brush your teeth for fully two weeks before a job interview. You see, IQ is not a measurement of practical, emotional or genuinely adaptive intelligence -- a high IQ might be great if you're rotating blocks in certain sequences, or memorizing the first batch 30 numbers in the Fibonacci Series -- but it doesn't predict your ability to write a moving poem, design a beautiful building, or choose friends who won't steal your belongings one night and then gut you like a fish. MENSA, SCHMENZA.

I heard a rather whiney, horse-faced woman on a cable news program taking about the increasing problem of declining consumer credit eligibility in the United States. Later, on my way home from the gym, I heard (on my quadrophonic Bose Sensoround authomotive speaker system) some gruff, military-sounding guy (an educator, they said) discussing that US children are doing progressively worse on IQ-type exams as compared to their counterparts and peers overseas...presumably where education is considered to be of importance, as opposed to in the US where the more money you have the smarter you must be. That last comment was a fine illustration of both faulty logic and a pitiful value system; our domestic economy was wrought of this brilliant type of thinking.

In a burst of brilliance, and realizing that two completely innaccurate, inapplicable or plain irrelevant premises (FICO and IQ) should somehow be combined to make one perfect theory [this like saying "two wrongs will always neutralize each other and make things right."], I have come up with a statistic to predict the probability of your personal financial solvency, and it may actually be as accurate as a broken watch, i.e., twice a day:

Here it is:

The likelihood of your being financially successful over the next year is equal to your FICO score divided by your IQ, with the result divided by 4 and then subsequently divided into 1.00. That's right.

For example, if your FICO score is 800 and your IQ is 200 (which divides out nicely into 4), your probability of being financially successful would be 4 divided by 4, or 1.00, which divid into 1.00 equals 1.00 or 100%. Clap yourself on the back. Jolly good! Lucky you. Can you spare a dime?

On the other hand, if your FICO score were 700 and your IQ were 20 (making you about as bright as a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup), your probability of being financially successful would be 700/20, or 35, divided by 4 (which would equal 8.75). Divide 8.75 into 1.00, which would equal 0.11, or a probability of about 11%. Terribly sorry. Bad joss. Lose my telephone number.

What's that? You can see cases where this "statistic" wouldn't make any sense at all?

Then you've gotten my point.

Conclusion 1: Disregard anyone's statistical assessment of you and do the very best you can to be successful and happy.

Conclusion 2: There is no one statistic, or even a combination of statistics that is fully predictive 100% of the time. And that, by the way is not sarcastic -- it is the truth. Every statistic has its exceptions and predictive blind spots.

Conclusion 3: Conclusions 1 and 2, above, are not in their proper order. A quick workaround? Read Conclusion 2 first and Conclusion 1 secondly.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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p.s. You may laugh, but there are many people who will start using the ridiculous formula above to predict the likelihood of someone's financial success. We Humans love to be able to simplify and gneralize about that which we don't truly understand. Every one of us is an individual, and each of us is a Wild Card.
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RadioDAZZ Music Break - De-Stress - Re-Energize -- BAND OF GOLD - Freda Payne

2011-01-02T13:09:00.002-05:00

RadioDAZZ: De-Stress, Re-Energize, and be temporarily transported to a dimension of joyful imagination. Don't be afraid to let the music take you away -- we'll get you back within minutes, but you'll feel totally refreshed, with your imagination and creativitive juices throughly pumped.

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When My sister and I were children, one of the first records I can remember her purchasing (with her limited, precious, hard-won allowance) was a vinyl single recording (we used to call them "45s")of Freda Payne singing her Top 40's hit "Band Of Gold."

So melodic. A great song, with simple lyrics and a "rock from side-to-side in your seat" driving beat. Freda had a wonderful, easily articulated voice, filled with energy and conviction. Listen for the sound of the late 60's signature electric sitar. The riff has just a hit of Eastern Europe/ Middle East influence to it... it's created by one special, out-of-place note -- a G# in the Key of G Major. This uniqueness made the riff immortal...even more so as it was repeated between verses as a tempting appetizer. It builds to a great anticipatory climax.

Throughout the song, the backup band plays a counterpunctal (counterpoint) harmony that seems to sing right along with Ms. Payne.

I thank her, my head bowed (not from a New Years hangover), for the glorious memories that this song brings to me, and for the child inside me (and inside each of us) who craves acknowledgement, respect and love.

RadioDAZZ (http://radiodazz.blogspot.com/) provides an assortment of pop and top music from the 50's into the 90's, and a few from after the turn of this century.

Enjoy this by either clicking on the hyperlink below, or by clicking on the Video Player, if it decides to grace your screen with an actual appearance.

Music is the best refreshment for the over-worked mind. It is more than a moment of feeling -- it is a time machine which transports you to a completely different place and time. Melodic and rythmic transport.

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Hope that you enjoyed this quick break from your labors. Music is a powerful substance. It transports us to another dimension. It's an endorphin-charged, harmless medication that gets right to the heart and soul of the problem. NEVER FAILS.

Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all.

--Douglas Castle

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Successful Culture + Successful Conduct = Strong National Economy

2010-12-26T22:09:00.000-05:00

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"Life is merely the span of time between germinal and terminal. It's what we do during that brief and uncertain span that makes us either insignificant or immortal." - Douglas Castle

2010-12-18T11:54:00.000-05:00

"Life is merely the span of time between germinal and terminal. It's what we do during that brief and uncertain span that makes us either insignificant or immortal."
- Douglas Castle

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