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Recent world events that have brought such overwhelming tragedy and negativity can make us spiral downward, creating despairing attitudes and dismal spirits. These affect our work. We’re less productive. We miss our sales goals. We wander away from family and friends. How do we get back on track? Find. Focus. Finish.

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The post No Arms, No Legs … No Worries appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Our times our piled high with difficulty and uncertainty. Stress and anxiety. Problems too big to get your arms around, Too high to climb. Unless ... you don't have legs or arms.

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The words in this video had the same purpose - but not the same meaning.

And meaning is everything. It's seeing without eyes.

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler

I heard a couple of acquaintances talk about a person they work with that was "older" and no longer contributing to their business. This person apparently couldn't, or wouldn't, learn new skills. Or, for that matter, even keep up with the skill-set needed for the job. Age was mentioned, and not favorably. They thought this person should be "put out to pasture."

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Too short. Too fat. Too dumb. No Imagination. No creativity. No skills. Face for radio. Voice for print. Too macho. Too Wimpy. Too lady-like. Too butch. Too bald. Too much fuzzy hair. Wrong color. Wrong race. Wrong sex. Out of his depth in a parking lot puddle. Neanderthal brain in a Cro-Magnon body. And … just who in the "H--E-doubLe-hockey-sticks” do you think you are?

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Whatever business you're in you have a story. If it's a good story it informs, educates, entertains and helps people down a path to find a solution to the problem they have. The trip down the path is your story.

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The post Content: The Explosive New Reality Show appeared first on Steve Kayser.

The question is ... how do you connect through the chaotic cacophony and conflagration of content?

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“He is one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory Mexico or Peru."
William Henry Harrison - 1811

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The post Who is There to Mourn for Logan?
No One … Not One appeared first on Steve Kayser.

"I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to Logan's Lament.” - Thomas Jefferson

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No One … Not One appeared first on Steve Kayser.

The post How to Defeat Your Inner Deadbeat appeared first on Steve Kayser.

In every person’s life, there is a still, small voice that tries to guide you to a wonderful calling − a destiny. Your destiny. A calling that you, and only you, were put on this earth to fulfill. Near silent, this voice is powerful enough to lift thoughts, dreams and visions to a higher ground. Do you still hear it?

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The word enchantment, in my mind, evokes a mystical musical imagery. Like a smooth jazz tune. Alluring, mellifluous, melodious, harmonious … almost magical. So I played one last rip-tripping riff on the keys. A simple reverie – an out-take. One take. No thinking. Just riffing. Thought it sounded like a knuckle-dragging nose-honker when I played it. I was going to dump it - until I heard the playback.

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The post The Complex Sale: How to Outsmart Yourself – With Your Own Brilliance appeared first on Steve Kayser.

To win at the complex sale, one must be a storyteller, master strategist, philosopher, psychologist and have an innate understanding of the B2B Goldilocks Universe ...

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The post A Jerk In Search of Some Enchantment
… Interview with Guy Kawasaki appeared first on Steve Kayser.

It sneaks up on you. Subtly. Like the floor after your 4th shot of tequila. Next thing you know? Prevaricating, blasphemous, smellfungus ninnyhammer all-foam no-beer mooncalfs are calling you a jerk. Quickly followed by a public JERK INTERVENTION. I know. It happened to me. Don't let it happen to you.

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… Interview with Guy Kawasaki appeared first on Steve Kayser.

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In 100 years from now … when green sod lies above, when there is no one left to mourn for you, will something you have said or done, be ...

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Times are tough. If you've lost your job, your house, or your hope for a better future it's enough to make you feel like a loser. Make you feel completely alone. How to turn it around?

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The old man was singled out by the crowd at a family get together. Dressed in bib overalls, worn T-shirt and a past prime denim cap. He was a hard-working farmer. It showed. The crowd urged him on... “Come on old man, play! Bring out the third hand.”

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The post The New Employee … Partner of Purpose? appeared first on Steve Kayser.

What type of employee would YOU want to help you in a startup? Or in growing a business? In a struggling business? Certainly someone with drive and...

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Ever wonder about celebrities, politicians and others who have huge numbers following them on Twitter? How do they amass those big numbers - millions of followers? I used to think about it occasionally. Not that I was jealous. I mean I rocketed up to 10 followers and held steady there for three straight years.

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The post Open Your World, Walk Towards Wisdom
An Interview with Dr. Ken Blanchard appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Do you have truth tellers in your life? Do you have people around you who give you feedback and are honest with you?

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An Interview with Dr. Ken Blanchard appeared first on Steve Kayser.

The post Left, Right and No-Brainers…
The Management vs. Marketing War appeared first on Steve Kayser.

There’s a war going on in American business. It’s a war that causes great ideas and products to vanish. To get lost in the clear fog of logical logic. A devastatingly destructive war that helps bad ideas take root and flourish (albeit briefly) justified by common sense and … logical logic. It’s Left-Brain Management vs. Right-Brain Marketing. What does that mean? How does it work? What to do about it? Find out in this interview with bestselling authors Al and Laura Ries.

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The Management vs. Marketing War appeared first on Steve Kayser.

The post The Most Important Thing I Have Learned
Interview with “Rich Dad Poor Dad” Author Robert Kiyosaki appeared first on Steve Kayser.

I was going to start off with, “What’s it like to sell 28-million copies of Rich Dad Poor Dad?”‘ but I won’t. because it'd probably bore you to tears. You served as a marine helicopter gunship pilot in Vietnam, winning an air award medal, how did that ...

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The post Riding the Complex Sale Alligator Without Becoming Lunch – Interview with Pen Densham, Film and TV Writer, Producer, Director appeared first on Steve Kayser.

To win at the complex sale, one must be a storyteller, strategist, master tactician, cajoler, evaluator, philosopher, psychologist, bean counter and often, magician. But what about a really complex sale? Like selling your story to Hollywood and getting it made into a film? Find out with Pen Densham whose films include; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Backdraft, Moll Flanders, Rocky II and Houdini. The films and television series Pen Densham and his partner have produced have grossed over $1 billion.

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The post Can You Make a Living “Thinking” for a Living? appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Is there a magic formula that can enable you to put your feet up in a chair, daydream and think of ideas that can change everything for you? In business and life? Yes, it's "4 I's > C2." Features interview with Joey Reiman, author of "Thinking for a Living."

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The post The Seven “New Rules” of Business Presentations I Wish I’d Been Taught in Kindergarten appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Having seen hundreds of business presentations and given a stinky few myself, there are a few things I wish someone would have taught me in kindergarten. Seven things or “New Rules” of business presentations to be precise. I pass these on to anyone new to the dreaded gauntlet of the business presentation or any grizzled veterans who want to walk on the wild side and shake things up. Avoid lying-flying "Stink-o-potamus" presentation status. Use the principle of "Creative Limitation."

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How often has one person affected humanity to such a degree that were the fruits of his labor withdrawn immediately from our day-to-day existence, the world as we know it … would essentially stop?

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To win at business or life, adversity has to be encountered, faced, fought and defeated. There is no other way. No options. You either beat it, or it beats you. Win, or you lose. Simple. Right? No. Never. It's never black and white. Never win or lose. Something always bleeds over. Always. Sometimes good - sometimes bad. Sometimes funny - sometimes sad. Most times a little of both. This is one such story.

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The post THE INFORMANT: A Second Chance at Life appeared first on Steve Kayser.

He was 32 years old, earning $1,000,000 per year and 3rd in line to take over leadership of a $70 billion dollar company. Three years later he was sitting in prison making 12 cents an hour. Then ... something amazing happened. The sublime beauty and redemptive cleansing of a second chance.

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The post What’s Your Difference? appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Through the trials and travails of life we rarely stop to think of what we are doing or have done that makes a difference. A real difference. Something that makes the world a little bit better in any way – no matter how small.

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It's the second most clicked on page on most websites. That's valuable real estate. You need your best foot forward. Can you guess what it is? Don't cheat. Think. Don't look right below this sentence where the answer is. Think really hard. Give up? It's the ...

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The post Robert McKee’s “Principle of Creative Limitation,” Stays Inside the Box appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Out of the box thinking. How many times have you heard that? What does it mean? It's supposed to connote creative thinking. But what happens if you stay in the box... and make it smaller?

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The post How to Create and Finish Anything … Work the Do appeared first on Steve Kayser.

Do the Work is a shut up and do-it guide. It treads some of the same turf as the "War of Art." It fights the intractable, implacable, insidious foe of mankind –Resistance. But it’s also an indispensable guide to winning at business or life.

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“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” – H.G. Wells. Queasy easy? Stop here. This is a true story. It’s graphic. Reality is rough. Truth is tough. So if you get queasy easy, stop here. This story describes a complex melding of, and interplay between, some spectacular people, processes and technologies that combine to create a real-life, dynamic human organism. An organism that breathes, reacts, corrects, heals and cures. And, it’s powered by the ...

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The post Why Good Companies Go Bad
How Great Leaders Remake Them appeared first on Steve Kayser.

You know the company. It’s yours, or may have been. An industry leader. Once. Competitors emulate it. Analysts preach the company gospel. The CEO’s mug is on every magazine cover. Stock prices soar above the Milky Way. Then CRASH. Why? Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business School Press author of “Revival of The Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them” answers that question in an easy-to-read “Shoot the Donkey” - style interview format, combining theory, real-life examples and practical advice.

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How Great Leaders Remake Them appeared first on Steve Kayser.