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Jim Stovall - Click Here To Read Jim's Articles - Jim Stovall has been a national champion
Olympic weightlifter, the President of the
Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television
Network, and a highly sought after author
and platform speaker. He is the author of
the best selling book, The Ultimate Gift,
which is now a major motion picture
starring James Garner and Abigail Breslin.
Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes
magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the
most extraordinary men of our era.”
For his work in making television
accessible to our nation’s 13 million
blind and visually impaired people, The
President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity
selected Jim Stovall as the Entrepreneur
of the Year. He was also chosen as the
International Humanitarian of the Year,
joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and
Mother Teresa as recipients of this
honor.
info@jimstovall.com
www.narrativetv.com
www.ultimateproductivity.com
Stephanie Calahan - Click Here To Read Stephanie's Articles - Stephanie L.H. Calahan
(www.StephanieCalahan.com) of Calahan
Solutions, Inc. is a dynamic entrepreneur,
nationally known expert and speaker, media
personality, author, publisher,
productivity/ organization consultant,
& business start-up coach. She focuses
on conducting presentations, personal
coaching, productivity assessments &
organizing services. She believes that
diversity of thought, communication
styles, backgrounds, & experiences
lead to more innovative, longer-lasting
solutions. Steph has worked with hundreds
of clients, and understands that every
person is unique & requires systems
that work for them. As such, she has been
featured on/in numerous venues
(http://www.calahansolutions.net)
She is an active member in many
professional organizations & is an
active community leader. As such, she has
received many awards recognizing her for
her contributions. Her corporate and small
business expertise as well as her Computer
Science & HR backgrounds give her a
unique perspective of what works at work.
As a wife & mother, she knows family
& leisure time is more important than
ever.
Stephen Blakesley - Click Here To Read Stephen's Articles - Stephen is a Marketeer, Entrepreneur,
Author, Speaker, Radio Show Host and the
Head Headhunter at GMS Talent
. GMS is a One-of-a-Kind Talent
Acquisition and Performance Management
consultancy. We specialize in finding
people for the "hard-to-fill positions,
anywhere in the world. Please visit our
website: www.gmstalent.com
and visit the blog about our recent
book"The Target-The Secret to Superior
Performance: http:/
/www.targetthebook.comTune into
the latest episode of Entrepreneurs R Us
on Blog Talk Radio for the latest in
Entrepreneurial wisdom: http://www.blogtalkradio.c
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Sheryl Nicholson - Click Here To Read Sheryl's Articles - CSP Sheryl Nicholson is an International
Speaker, Keynoter, Personal Coach, and
Author You can view more credentials at http://www.sh
eryl.com. She's known as The
Implementation Coach presenting programs
that get results for attendees. Whether is
be sales, communication, leadership, goal
setting. life balance. or presentation
skills - she's proven she knows her stuff
as 25 years on the platform. Sheryl has shared the stage with
President Ford, Joan Rivers, and Zig
Ziglar. She's published everwhere
and interviewed by the media monthly.
David Liddell - Click Here To Read David's Articles - David Liddell, president and founder of
SKYE Business Solutions, is an insightful
and
trusted advisor to organizations
interested in improving their performance
and results.
Based on more than 20 years of
experience in organizational and
business
development, he objectively evaluates
organizations and their employees to
identify
opportunities for increased
efficiencies and productivity. Recognizing
that employees
play a key role in a company's
performance, David utilizes his analysis
to create
customized employee training and
development solutions designed to
enhance
employee performance, leadership
skills, team building, strategy planning
and
organizational development.
He is widely respected for his skills
as an expert problem solver, trainer,
speaker,
facilitator and coach. As a certified
360 Solutions training partner and
Profiles
International strategic business
partner, he brings proven expertise to his
creation of
customized employee development
solutions.
Areas of
Expertise
David has assisted numerous companies
in improving employee and organizational
performance. Using
a blended approach (assessments,
training, coaching, strategic planning,
and consulting), following is a
sample of results achieved:
- Improved core leadership strength and alignment
- Increased sales performance / business growth
- Maximized production throughput and workforce productivity
- Enhance organizational culture to foster a high performance mind-set (employee engagement)
- Elevated trust / improved communication and collaboration
- Ensured successful formation and execution on strategic objectives and goals
James Ladd - Click Here To Read James's Articles - JAMES LADD B.A., C.H.R.P., C.P.I.R.
Life & Business Coach, author and
speaker, who has without a doubt been down
the "Road Less Traveled," having survived
and thrived after a double lung transplant
in August of 2003. Jim comes to this place
in his incredible life journey with a
dynamic combination of work and life
experience. Jim worked as an
Organizational & Human Resource
Development Specialist for over 35 years
in the private, public & non-profit
sectors and also managed a provincial
government employee assistance program
serving over 15,000 employees. He has
authored and facilitated a wide variety of
training programs covering such diverse
topics as; managing organizational change,
conflict resolution, performance
management, managing and/or coping with
stress, interviewing & counseling
skills, supervisory & management
skills. His most recent publication
titled; "THE PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
GUIDE: Raising Awareness of Self to Slay
the Dragon," is available through his
website. In the community he became an
award winning football coach over the
course of 25 years (Coach of the Year 3M
of Canada, Coach of the Year,
Developmental Category, Coaches Assoc. of
Manitoba
Dr. Jack Singer - Click Here To Read Dr. Jack's Articles - Dr. Jack Singer is a professional
speaker, trainer and licensed
psychologist. He has been speaking for and
training Fortune 1000 companies,
associations, CEO's, sales forces and
elite athletes for 34 years. Dr. Jack is a
frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, GLENN BECK,
FOX SPORTS and countless radio talk shows
across the U.S. and Canada. He is the
author of "The Teacher's Ultimate Stress
Mastery Guide," and several series of
hypnotic audio programs- some specifically
for athletes and others for anyone wanting
to raise their self-confidence,
self-esteem and optimism. For more
information, go to his website at Dr. Jack Singer
or email him at:
drjack@funspeaker.com
Joan Burge - Click Here To Read Joan's Articles - Joan Burge has been a visionary for
administrative training and development
since 1990. One of the first to venture
into the administrative training industry,
she has become an international
administrative expert, trainer, author,
and consultant. Joan Burge equips
administrative professionals to move
beyond task work to higher-level functions
that meet the ever-changing demands of
todays workplace. Best known for her
highly-acclaimed Star Achievement
Series®, a 12-part Certification and
Designation training program designed to
promote Star Performance¯ among
administrative, support and front-line
staff. She is the creator and host of the
Annual Conference for Administrative
Excellence, the World Class Assistant
Certificate program, and more than 40
customized workshops and seminars for
administrative professionals.
Joan's most recent work Who Took My Pen
... Again? (2012 Burge, Fraze, Freeman)
joins her many other groundbreaking books
for the administrative profession which
include Underneath It All; Postgraduate
Level Revelations Lift Administrative
Assistants to New Heights, Become an Inner
Circle Assistant, 3 other books and 15
workbooks. She is the editor of Monday
Motivators weekly e-zine and has been
published in more than 100 trade journals.
With her passion to fill a niche in the
administrative education arena, she
continually explores what is necessary to
excel in that position.
Before starting Office Dynamics
International, Joan was an administrative
professional for 20 years in 12 different
companies in 5 states. She worked her way
up from receptionist to assisting CEOs,
serving in a variety of industries ranging
from small businesses to Fortune 500
companies.
John Heap - Click Here To Read John's Articles - Productivity is my 'bag' ... it is what I
know about. I am President of the World
Confederation of Productivity Science
-http://www.wcps.info and Director of the
National Productivity Centre in the UK
http://www.natprodcentre.com - go to this
site for some good free resources and some
(paid for but low price) e-learning on
productivity.
I also edit the International Journal of
Productivity & Performance
Management.
My views on productivity and on learning
(which I think are related) are summarised
at http://www.johnheap.net .... and
current productivity news and views are on
my blog -
www.donotcomplicate.blogspot.com.
You may also want to join the
Productivity Futures Group on LinkedIn
(http://www.linkedin.com). Finally
if all this leaves you cold, go to
www.mockprod.com for a more light-hearted
look at (mock) productivity.
Gary Jordan, Ph.D. - Click Here To Read Gary's Articles -
Gary Jordan, Ph.D.,
has over 27 years of experience in
clinical
psychology,
behavioral assessment, individual
development, and coaching.
He earned his
doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the
California
School of
Professional Psychology –
Berkeley. He is co-creator
of
Perceptual Style
Theory, a revolutionary psychological
assessment system
that teaches people
how to unleash their deepest potentials
for success.
He’s a partner
at Vega Behavioral Consulting, Ltd., a
consulting firm
that specializes in
helping people discover their true skills
and
talents. For free
information on how to succeed as an
entrepreneur or
coach, create a
thriving business and build your bottom
line doing more
of what you love,
visit www.YourTalentAdvantage.com
Gold Authors
Lonny Dunn - Click Here To Read Lonny's Articles - Lonny's Twitter of ProNetworkBuild speaks
for itself. He has over 100K
Followers across 12 accounts on Twitter.
Lonny wrote for Thesaurus News Newsletter
as Editor from 1995 until 2001 covering
Telephony Infastructure Stocks.
Lonny develops Social Media strategies for
Corporate and Celebrity
Accounts. Mobile Strategies
are Hot! and Lonny knows how to take a
company into the Mobile Revolution
Immediately, and with quick
results. Writing and authoring
many articles on the symbiotic
efficiencies of the Big 3 extensively,
Lonny has a wealth of
experience. Whether you need
someone to coach you or your employees on
Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, or help you
get your small business phone riinging,
Lonny is here to help. Lonny's
Blog:
http://pronetworkbuild.blogspot.com
Lonny's Personal Homepage:
http://pronetworkbuild.com
Paul Puckridge - Click Here To Read Paul's Articles - Paul is an author, teacher and speaker on
leadership, innovation and worksmarts. He
is the Training Director of The Success
Institute - Australia and over 15 years
has written over 30 professional
development programs, 10 books and a host
of other professional development
materials. His most recent book is Time
Smarts, which teaches practical ways to
increase your personal productivity at
work.
Jack Greene - Click Here To Read Jack's Articles - Jack Greene is president of Jackson
Productivity Research Inc. He writes of
practical actions to control and reduce
costs through time study; plant and
facility layout and design; balance
workloads; optimize capacity and
utilization; improve productivity; manage
constraints; merge and consolidate
facilities; cost-justify facility
relocation.
Mr. Greene's articles
demonstrate how principles of industrial
engineering and productivity achieve
results, and reflect consulting
assignments with Fortune 250 companies,
and much smaller ones, in industry,
construction, government, service, and
hotels.Jack Greene is the
author of books on Amazon in print and
Kindle editions; please search by title.
Plant Design, Facility Layout,
Floor Planning
Cost Reduction How to
Survive, Recover, and Thrive,
Time and Motion Study What,
Why, and How-To
Facility Relocation, Merger
and Design
A client will expect certain results
from a consultant, and these articles
outline what may be expected from JPR
because they reflect our experience,
business approach and services. We offer
hands-on consultancy, to lead or
participate in activity; or if you choose
we can train your resources to perform the
work in-house.
Jackson Productivity Research Inc., at
http://jacksonproductivity.com, welcomes
inquiry about practical actions to
accomplish your organization's objectives
and scope, within your timetable and
budget. Please email
jack@jacksonproductivity.com
Sam Allman - Click Here To Read Sam's Articles - Sam Allman is CEO of Allman Consulting and
Training, Inc. and is an internationally
recognized motivational speaker,
consultant and author. For almost two
decades Sam has been one of the most
in-demand sales speakers. Delivering high
content, customized, inspiring programs in
areas such as leadership, customer
service, management, team building, retail
and outside sales
and personal development. Sam has been
featured as a keynote speaker for
organizations in industries ranging from
Technology, Retail Sales to Health Care.
He captivates his audience by his humor,
enthusiasm, knowledge and expertise.
Sam has created hundreds of training and
educational learning programs and systems.
His latest published book, “Heart and Mind
Selling” has helped hundreds of sales
professionals build genuine trusting
relationships with their customers that
will last a lifetime. Through Sam’s
leadership, Allman Consulting, Inc. has
developed training departments or
“universities” for major corporations that
have actually realized profits within two
years.
For Speaking, Training or Consulting
contact Bill @ 770-425-2142 or
bill@allmanconsulting.com
Michael O'Grady - Click Here To Read Michael's Articles -
If
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About Michael
O'Grady: Well known in the
residential services industry for
his high-volume tickets and
record-breaking, self-motivated selling
style, Michael O'Grady is an accomplished
Sales Manager, Business Owner, and
Author. During his 20+
year sales career, he has set and achieved
many industry and personal records. He is
inspired to teach others to do the
same.
Michael owns and publishes the
sales training resources, Sa
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offers sales training seminars, private
coaching sessions and products for sales
professionals, managers, contractors and
business owners.
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offer professional coaching services in
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I help individuals and executives define
and get in step with their stated goals
and values. I'm an experienced coach,
having worked with hundreds of clients
over the past five years, coming to
coaching from a business background and as
a trained therapist. My clients and I work
to close the gap between who or what they
say they are, or want to be, and who or
what they actually are now, as expressed
by their actions. I'm also a
writer, and communications consultant. I
have published dozens of articles in North
American newspapers, websites and
magazines and for Reuters and Thomson
Newspapers over the past twenty years. I
published a book on self-coaching with
co-author, psychologist and coach, Dr.
Stephen Renfrey, called Deep Coaching: A
Guide to Self Directed Living. I am
currently writing a book on creative life
strategies. I write a monthly career
column called Ask The Coach in Job
Postings magazine. I also write articles
and have a blog I update every week. I
recently published an article on the
boundary between therapy and coaching in
Choice Magazine, the premier coaching
journal. I am a successful
entrepreneur, business development
executive, and business and communication
consultant before turning to executive and
life coaching full-time. I have an MA
from The University of Toronto and a
Bachelor of Science from the McGill
University. I also attended The Ontario
College of Art, Columbia University and I
have a three year certificate in
Leadership and Psychotherapy from the
Gestalt Institute of Toronto. I received
coach training from the Gestalt Institute
and the Coach Training Institute.
The breadth of my experience and the
training I've done ensures that you'll get
insight, clarity and direction from me.
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Joan Friedlander - Click Here To Read Joan's Articles - Joan Friedlander is the founder of
Lifework Business Partners, a national
coaching and training company that offers
services to men and women who are
compelled to reconstruct a business, or
career, that has been impacted by a
personal health crisis. Visit
http://www.LifeworkPartners.com for
information about programs, resources and
products.
Susan Ireland - Click Here To Read Susan's Articles - As a Certified Integrity Coach and member
of The Master Coach Council, I work with
business owners, managers, department
heads and professional services providers
to help them achieve high performance and
lasting results in any economy. My passion
is helping people develop strengths they
often don't know they have and take
advantage of opportunities they don't know
exist. My vision is to build life-long
relationships by making a difference in
people's lives, one client at a time.
Gurutej Khalsa - Click Here To Read Gurutej's Articles - Gurutej Kaur Khalsa is the founder of The
Energy Gurus. Her background includes 38
years in creating and directing conscious
communities and businesses in Toronto and
Los Angeles. Gurutej is a well known
master teacher of yoga and health
techniques to thousands of individuals in
the Los Angeles area.
She is currently consulting with
businesses, organizations and corporations
to bring practical knowledge and exercises
into the workplace. She assists business
owners in a process of increasing
productivity through supporting people
with techniques to regain their energy,
enthusiasm and productivity
Gurutej’s mission is to sustain, support,
and uplift humanity through individual
practices that create awareness, energy,
and productivity in the home, workplace,
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www.gurutej.com www.theenergygurus.com
Jan Malloch - Click Here To Read Jan's Articles - An advocate of Positive Psychology, Jan
specializes in encouraging people to learn
to adopt a much more positive attitude,
and to achieve what they desire in life.
She is an inspirational author and
speaker, and has written numerous articles
on Positive Thinking and Achievement. Her
book, "The Positive Achiever - 11
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Deserve" has just been published. Jan is a
Master NLP Practitioner, and is currently
creating digital training courses and
workshops to promote her DESIRE Model of
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Ciara Conlon - Click Here To Read Ciara's Articles - Ciara Conlon is author of "Chaos to
Control" a practical guide to getting
things done. She is a Personal
Productivity Coach and blogger. Her blog
(http://www.ciaraconlon.com) focuses on
how to increase personal productivity and
simplify your life to achieve greater
happiness and success.
Karen Parsons (Premium Author) - Click Here To Read Karen's Articles - Hello my name is Karen Parsons and I am
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current and long-term productivity of
workers in terms of reduced work
activities, disability days, absenteeism
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of an entry-level employee is 30% of their
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Georgina Forrest - Click Here To Read Georgina's Articles - Georgina Forrest, your Organizing Expert,
provides office organizing services,
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Carole Hodges - Click Here To Read Carole's Articles - The YES
Connection is powered by business
and executive coach Carole
Hodges, whose
driving passion is to create environments
where people can live and work from
the heart connection. She teaches
businesspeople to market, manage, and
prioritize based upon their life goals in
order to make the greatest possible
impact. Her proven results are
consistently extraordinary. Many clients
feel
their achievements are almost magical. The
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body, and spirit for visible success.
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Carole is a Master Practitioner of
Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP) and sponsors a monthly
NLP educational program in the Los
Angeles area. Additionally, she is a
master DISC practitioner working in
conjunction with Carol Dysart of
PeopleSmart Solutions. Additional studies
include gender communication and emotional
release techniques. She studied
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owners under Paul Lemberg.
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Andy Piper - Click Here To Read Andy's Articles - Andy Piper is the author of Enterprise
Readiness 101 and the founder of
www.enterprise-readiness.com. For over
ten years, he has worked with enterprise
companies. He has developed applications
and implemented solutions as a systems
engineer. He spent several years at
Microsoft as a sales engineer. Since
2004, Andy has been a product manager for
different start up organizations such as
Ardence and most recently Casenet.
Silver Authors
Kenneth Williams - Click Here To Read Kenneth's Articles - Kenneth Williams is a
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methods found here: How Do You Improve
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Ruben Guzman - Click Here To Read Ruben's Articles - Ruben J. Guzman, M.P.H. coaches leaders
and their organizations in leadership
effectiveness and maximizing their energy,
productivity and profitability.
Working with Coach Ruben in his programs,
leaders gain new effectiveness in
communication and leadership capacity, and
employees gain access to
life-changing behaviors, increased energy,
and improved physical, emotional and
mental capacity to work. Organizations
gain a workforce that is fully engaged,
aligned with fulfilling their mission and
vision.
Coach Ruben is an award-winning
speaker, trainer, transformational
business
coach and consultant. He has an extensive
education and diverse background in
business, leadership, sports and health.
Having personally lost over 50 pounds
of fat in 1995, he completely transformed
his own health and fitness and has
been fit ever since!
Coach Ruben is committed to empowering
business leaders in being healthy and
balanced, as well as powerful in their
leadership and communication. He is also
committed to empowering entire
organizations in being healthy, balanced
and
productive as a foundation for increased
profitability.
Stan Berry - Click Here To Read Stan's Articles - Stan Berry has devoted the past 34 years
to improving the writing skills of over
55,000 business and government
professionals. After completing his
Master’s degree from Yale University, he
co-authored five books on writing that he
uses in his seminars. He’s been a member
of the American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD) since 1975 when he
served as the newsletter editor and on the
Board of Directors for the Twin Cities
Chapter. Stan can be reached at
www.BerryWritingGroup.com or 612-578-1487.
Dave Crenshaw - Click Here To Read Dave's Articles - Dave Crenshaw’s mission is to help you
“Magnify Your Time.” Dave has shown
business leaders worldwide how to uncover
hidden hours every day and increase their
per-hour worth. Dave is a frequent radio
guest on stations through North America.
He is the author of The
Myth of Multitasking: How ‘Doing it
All’ Gets Nothing Done, a time management
bestseller recently reviewed in TIME
magazine. For more information about
Dave, visit www.davecrenshaw.com.
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concentrated to give you the best solution
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technical director at QuoStar Solutions, a
leading provider of IT services and
consultancy.
Rob has been delivering business enhancing
IT solutions on a global scale for over 10
years, working with large international
businesses through to those with ten
employees. He has a genuine and deep
passion for providing technical solutions
to business issues, which are measurable
and make a real impact to a
business’s operations and bottom
line.
Favourite Quote:-
"Any suitable advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Rob can be contacted on
robert.rutherford@quostar.com and his main
company website address is
http://www.quostar.com
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Fred Patterson - Click Here To Read Fred's Articles - Fred Patterson has been involved with
guiding companies through technology
development into commercialization for
over forty years, including having worked
with the SBIR Program and all of its
aspects virtually since its inception.
Currently enjoying a well-recognized
nationwide consulting practice as
“The SBIR Coach”, Fred teaches
his dozens of client companies the SBIR
“ropes” and guides them in the
process of producing clearly articulated
and reviewer-focused proposals,
effectively doubling their chances of
obtaining funding.
In addition to SBIR and other Federal
government sponsored funding programs,
Fred also works with several State
sponsored technology accelerator
initiatives, as well as with many Angel,
Venture Capital, and other private sector
investment sources to continually refine
its trademarked “Funding Readiness
Level (FRL)®” index (a
combination of Technology Readiness,
Business Readiness, and DealsmanshipTM)
that the company uses to help its clients
prepare for the challenges of seeking,
securing, and managing funding for
commercialization and growth.
Dr Jürgen Strauss - Click Here To Read Dr Jürgen's Articles - Director of !nnovaBiz:
We work with businesses to provide cost
effective internet marketing strategies,
innovative website development and social
media solutions.
We make extensive use of Mindmapping in
all our work to allow creative
visualization of ideas, solutions,
strategies and projects. During my 25 year
career in the corporate world, I gained
extensive experience in people management,
marketing, product and brand management,
technical and business project management,
development of new products, customer
relationship management, strategic
planning, team building, creative
thinking, sales service, technical service
and research (chemical and photographic)
and the development of e-business systems
and processes.
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consulting firm that manages your shift
work project with you. Over the last 20
years we have helped more than 300
companies worldwide. We specialize in all
aspects of shiftwork operations
including:
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be accessed on http://stracon.blogspot.co
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Three simple words that changed my
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naturally want to engage in carrying out
useful and productive activities. If not,
then you will struggle against yourself to
get things done. This reduces your
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times, it leaves you immobilized and
unable to get anything done on important,
yet difficult issues.
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resistance to getting things done:
Understanding how the mind works, so that
objectives are designed and managed to be
easy to carry out.
Understanding the process of problem
solving, so that practical difficulties
can be overcome.
Understanding how learning and skill
development occurs, so that the
capabilities needed to fulfill objectives
can be gained quickly.
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