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Life Coaching - The Propose of a Compass
from DrSmith in How-to-Guides & Manuals
Life coaching can bring some of life’s grandest adventures. The issues at stake are often monumental and, not infrequently, the results can be life changing. In current times such coaching is frequently requested by individuals at the very crossroads of their careers. One such engagement began no...
Helping Companies Adapt to Changing Times – Part One
from DrSmith in Business & Law, Finance
In the aftermath of two important developments – the election of a new and transformative administration in Washington and the financial and economic downturn, I have found myself working with companies that are in need to refocus and, in some cases, reinvention. For the most part, these companie...
Mergers & Acquisitions Thinking About Selling – Part ...
from DrSmith in Business & Law, Finance
One of the most difficult decisions that a founder faces is when and to whom to sell his interest in a business – a business that he might have spent a considerable part of his adult life building. It is a decision that is often made and unmade many times along the way. Frequently and after much ...
Apprehension - Fear or Understanding
from DrSmith in Research, Humanities
Language can be a complicated thing – particularly when it comes to those curious words that have multiple meanings. It’s not so much the existence of the meanings that intrigues me but the choices that people make. How a person chooses to use a particular word can tell you a great deal about who...
Why Do I Need a Coach
from DrSmith in Business & Law, Marketing
One response is particularly interesting – “I don’t seem to have time anymore.” The first implication of this ‘defense’ is that life has become so crammed with other stuff that learning has been squeezed out. We have become too busy to learn – rather like saying that I am too busy driving to have...
Advisory Boards – Turbocharged Business Development
from DrSmith in Business & Law, Marketing
I build and manage Advisory Boards as business development engines for emerging and well-established companies. They are the single most powerful component of business development that I have ever found – bar none! The process of setting up and managing the Boards is one of the most fulfilling ro...
Finding Meaning Without Manufacturing Meaning
from DrSmith in How-to-Guides & Manuals
The search for meaning is one of life’s continuing journeys. The suspicion that meaning is lacking can bring on a deep dread that can haunt us all. The dreary landscape of the suspicion of no meaning can lead us to make up meaning. Buddhists call this ornamentation – the creation of bright and pr...
The Elevator Speech
from DrSmith in Business & Law, Marketing
According to current doctrine, everybody is supposed to have an elevator speech – that monologue that you can reel off during a two or three floor ride – hopefully going up rather than down. I’ve never cottoned much to boiling down a life into three to five minutes of crisp prose – I’ve always be...
Virtual Chairman
from DrSmith in Business & Law, Finance
When asked what I do I sometimes reply that I am a Virtual Chairman. That answer almost always generates a somewhat confused look. As it is one of the more important contributions that I make to start-ups, I have developed a series of clarifying statements that illustrate what I mean by that rath...
Dream Walk - Parables for the Living
from DrSmith in Books, Fiction
This is a book about dreaming and thinking - authenticity and inauthenticity. The first section - Dream Walking - relates an extended conversation between Raven and Wolverine. Their talk comes about as a result of an experience that Wolverine has had with Thrush. Wolverine’s question to Raven is ...
Making the Possible Probable
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Making the Possible Probable / Dr. Earl R. Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com www.Dr-Smith.com Executive co
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