If you work for yourself, are an artist/musician or run a small business you will place a high priority on attracting new clients or projects. Sometimes, conventional approaches do not work as well as we’d like them to and we have to learn to Think Differently. Here is one opportunity to learn how to do [...]
Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category
How to find new projects
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Economy, learning, Marketing, Thinking, tagged alliances, artist, freelancer, independent, musician, partner, partnerships on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A thought for our times…
Posted in Economy, learning, Wide Circle, Thinking, tagged Nelson Jackson on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I do not believe you can do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.” – Nelson Jackson (1872-1955)
Blue Trees & Purple Cows
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Economy, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged articles, Communication, consciousness, differently, emails, health, images, internal, meaning, negative, positive, safety, Thinking on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I want you to do something for me now: “Don’t think of a blue tree!” What are you thinking about? A blue tree, of course. How about: “Don’t think of a purple cow!” The reason you first see the blue tree or purple cow is because you cannot process a negative in your consciousness. You [...]
Is it good or bad?
Posted in Communication, Economy, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged adventurous, behaviour, excellence, excited, feelings, focus, growth, mind body connection, nlp, organizations, passionate, people, perception, positve, reality, recession, retail, Shakespeare, Theo Paphitis, Thinking, Wide Circle on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“…there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 239–251 Think about that for a minute…. Science has proven William Shakespeare to be right. If we run our minds on negative thoughts it’s like putting bad fuel into a car – it will not function properly. [...]
Getting the psychology right…
Posted in Communication, Economy, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged Archie Norman, ASDA, buy-in, Einstein, FT.com, Good to Great, hope, Jim Collins, Psychology, reality, recession, Stockdale, strategy, value on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Einstein said: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” This got me thinking about which reality strategy you’re encouraging your people to run during these tough economic times. Here are some insights that you may find useful for navigating these choppy seas: In his book “Good to Great“, researcher, academic and author [...]
Is Pharma immune?
Posted in Economy, Wide Circle, tagged acquire, Bristol Myers Squibb, deal, Genentech, Merck, merger, Pfizer, pharmaceutical, reality, Roche, Schering-Plough, takeover, Thinking, Wyeth on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The pharmaceutical industry’s perception of reality – a topic I will come back to frequently this week – appears to be quite different from the rest of the industrial world. Pfizer took over Wyeth in January 2009 for $68Bn. Yesterday, Merck announced a ‘takeover’ of Schering-Plough for $41Bn, although technically the smaller Schering-Plough ‘takes over’ [...]
Focus
Posted in Communication, Economy, nlp, tagged Cause & effect, focus, mind body connection, nlp, Perception is projection, recession on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It occurred to me the other day that if we get what we focus on, maybe we should all focus on economic recovery and stability?! Of course, the media might not like that….!