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Remembering Sacred Commitments

Persuasive Powerhouse

This is, I suspect, a rare dialog, but an important one, especially for political officials such as this one. I look forward to the stories about how they held each other accountable for staying true to those commitments when the going gets tough! Mary Jo Asmus : January 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm Me too, Susan.

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Lost and Found: Great Fullness

Persuasive Powerhouse

Lost: corporate politics. Found: helping clients traverse corporate politics. Found: a calling Lost: corporate colleagues. Found: a community of friends. Lost: steady paycheck. Found: payment for work I love. Lost: Bessie, my beloved canine friend. Found: Edgar, my beloved leadership pug. Lost: someone else’s vision.

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Catching Flies

Persuasive Powerhouse

I know that your workplace can be politically charged, even ugly sometimes. A lot is summed up in those few words that leaders can use and remember. I know that you sometimes feel you have been purposely deceived or cheated. No matter who is causing you frustration or anger – use honey to address it instead of vinegar.

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Lifting Others with Your Words

Persuasive Powerhouse

Why do we constantly need to be reminded to be polite, offer praise for job well done? One of the easiest ways to implement a positive environment amongs peers. Thanks, Sachin Davor Milicevic: October 11, 2010 at 8:07 pm A nice word goes a long way. Do we really need to be always positive?

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Let Them See You as Human

Persuasive Powerhouse

I was very nervous about the situation so I brushed up on my current events, political knowledge and business principles hoping to be able to effectively converse with the man. I recently had an experience where I needed to spend the afternoon alone with a particularly high ranking division manager.

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

In spite of these realities, clarity can be achieved and cultural, socio-economic, and political differences mitigated by analyzing needs and aspirations of both individuals and groups. My firm has modified Maslow's hierarchy of needs to analyze and categorize these varying levels of basic, enriching, and fulfilling consumer needs.

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Chris Brady

One theory posits that happiness is like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Predictably, however, these experts can't come to an agreement on just what comprises happiness and what produces it over the long term. There are many interesting theories.

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