What Aspiring Entrepreneurs can Learn from Improvisational Theater
Last night was one of the first nights I’ve had a bit of down time for myself in a while and accidentally happened upon Comedy Central’s First Annual Comedy Awards. Why it took them so long to come out with an awards show, I don’t know, but I’m happy they finally got around to it. Without a doubt, the awards ...
Continue ReadingNew Year – A Time to Remember, Reassess, Reprioritize, Reorganize and Reinvent (5R’s to Break the Funk)
Resetting the clock at the top of the year always gives us an opportunity to set resolutions to ourselves, whether attainable or not. For most, it’s a fairly superficial exercise but if approached from an honest and constructive perspective, some of our deepest desires may surface so that we can acknowledge how much we lack in order to attain the ...
Continue ReadingCombining One’s Emotional Intelligence with Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Business
Oftentimes, I find myself referring to Aristotle’s modes of persuasion or appeal in context to building meaningful relationships in business: ethos (credibility, ethical appeal or “character”), pathos (emotional), and logos (logical). Whether people are aware of the different tools at-hand, many use the different modes in varying degrees for different situations and people. In terms of the types of social ...
Continue ReadingBeing a Confident Listener Is Just As Important As Being a Confident Speaker
To cut to the chase of what could have potentially turned into a heated debate from tonight, I had a conversation with someone who insisted that he was listening to what I was saying, when really he wasn’t, but when I put it another way he finally understood where I was coming from. Sound familiar? Well, that’s because he didn’t ...
Continue ReadingPaying it Forward During Tough Economic Times and How It Can Play a Viral Role
At the risk of sounding a little sappy, I believe in “paying it forward.” Ever since the film, Pay It Forward, came out, the phrase has been fairly commonplace but just in case you haven’t read the book, seen the film or understand the basic concept, it involves the process of doing something good for someone in response to a ...
Continue ReadingFear of Change and Losing (Percieved) Control and How They Relate to Fear of Success
Although kainophobia and agoraphobia are rarely used in the context of everyday conversation, there are tell-tale signs of those who demonstrate a significant level of fear in both change and loss of (perceived) control – not necessarily at the level of uncontrollable fear that kainophobia or agoraphobia are defined as but still significant enough that it’s palpable. I think it’s ...
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