I wanted to let you know about another great opportunity tomorrow to tap into the full power of your heart and kindle qualities such as kindness, respect and compassion to go viral in the world.
This FREE teleclass called “Harnessing Your Heart Power,” next tomorrow, Tuesday, January 24th, is led by top leaders of HeartMath, a scientific organization focused on the powers of the heart for greater joy and less stressful living. You can get more details and sign up for free here.
What you’ll find on this call, is to learn about powerful tools to navigate these changing times with calm and ease, deepen your relationships, reduce stress, feel more connected to your purpose and many more benefits. When you’re in tune with your heart power, you hold a new frequency of love and calm for others, helping spread a wave of heart coherence around the world. It should be amazing. I hope you can join me there.
As entrepreneurs know, thinking, feeling, sensing and anticipating “the next big thing” is hardwired in our genes. However, sometimes we go about the wrong way. Sometimes?
The gist is as I watch Star Trek The Next Generation for the umpteenth time, I am stunned to see the visionary acumen Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek’s creator had. Gene tapped into the future and in many ways, helped shape our future.
Case In Point. Everyone knows about flip phones, fad of the late 90s and early 2000. My original Qualcomm was one and had amazing features for the time, such as recording voice notes without forcing me to send them to my email, as my Blackberry would incurring charges. The Original Series had the famous flip communicators.
What is even less known are the round storage disks found on the the very last episode of The Original Series. 20 years later, they show up in our lives as CD Roms. The list goes on and my favorite is the iPad, which mimics very well The Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine’s pads.
What’s Next? This is where we shouldn’t be afraid or ashamed to look to visionaries and see what we can glean from our future needs. Visionaries with their stories hint at what people will use in the future. I am willing to bet Steve Jobs watched Star Trek more than once and got an inkling. The best way to do it is to play the game: “What if…?” It starts with the notion that we are doing something in a very convoluted and difficult way. How can we achieve it better? Henceforth, the CD Rom, the flip phones, the iPad, etc. One thing to consider is the following, we have only “taken” technology from Star Trek but not its very rich philosophical questions and fundamentals. We could surely use some of the wisdom expounded in those shows, in light of the current circumstances.
I’m personally waiting for the transporters as I toy with the notion to write a bible of sorts based on the fundamental principles exposed in the many Star Treks. Remember, philosophy teachers from ivy leagues asked their student to watch Star Trek episodes to discuss them the following day. Talk about a Prime Directive! But in the meantime, I’ll go back to reading Steve Jobs’ biography with the hope I will receive some distant future idea we can implement now… as I nurse a sore throat two days before New Year’s Eve!
The title should really be: How Corporate America Went Wrong, shifting attention from customers to investors.
The gist is the difference from a few decades ago with how major corporations conducted their business and now is striking. Ultimately, their ever tightening relationship with investors has shifted their focus away from the essential client base. It’s easy to understand why companies act the way they do, when they pay more attention to investors instead of the customers who buy their products, services go down.
It’s natural for companies to need more money and turn to investors. Consumers should benefited from this. But companies saw they could have more profits and headed down the wrong road by relying too much on investors, giving them too much leverage. The result over the 80s and 90s was that companies courted investors more than their current base clients, alienating themselves. It’s a naive representation, but its makes the point.
It’s a tricky line between spending time and energy on your clients, while seeking investors. Investors can bring the much needed extra cash for a company but they come in with demands, sometimes without understand the business. Case in point, the 12 billion dollars IPO for Groupon is hardly justifiable.
So What Can Be Done? It will be difficult for corporations worldwide to come back to intelligent management, while rebuilding a sustainable way forward. If a company focuses on customer service, which has been on a constant deterioration for the past decades, while showing investors it is taking care of business, it will win both.
Why has Apple done so well with only 15% of the smart phone market share? Its cultures is translated into its products. It walk the fine line (so far) between being innovative, delivering quality products that are needed and listening to what customers want. Who cares about a fraction of the market when you pay a premium for products that work better than the competition?
What Can We Do? The most important role will come from consumers who need to exercise intelligently their use of their credit cards. By buying form the smaller, yet more competitive company that offers the same service with better products and who still vies for your attention is one way of keeping competition alive. It sends the message loud and clear to those companies who cater too much to investors demands that go against their customer base. In other words, once it gets too big, choose another company! We wouldn’t have monopolies and little to no use for laws against them.
Why am I writing this? First, I came to the US in the 70s when it was business treated you very, very differently. Second, I’ve been through a few weeks of dancing to the tune the corporate futility. My Internet provider speed was well below advertised. As I started shopping around, it was clear Verizon, the only other “choice” didn’t have a user friendly site where you could get all the information needed before buying. I guess they think I will just buy without checking the competition out. As I started shopping for a new cell phone, I went through a similar rigmarole with the big three, and found Metro PCS to offer the best bang for your buck. See here for this story.
I’ve also been motivated seeing the increasing complexity around internet services. Apple’s current services is nothing compared to what we’ve come to expect form them. iTunes had one department that didn’t speak to the Mobile Me one who had no contact with the online store. I ended up with 3 accounts, an iTunes, website accounts, Mobile Me and a series 1 iPhone that would loose passwords forcing me through a series of futile and utterly frustrating procedure of resetting my password. To add to it all, none of these passwords could be the ones I used in the past year… You know why, right? Security! Certainly, this is not what we expect from Apple and I am no criminal.
And the list goes on and on as America finds itself like a young teenager at the end of a big bash with a buzz and wanting more without knowing how, desperately clinging to how it used to be. It is safe to say, little to no corporations have given any thoughts as to: “What if our product doesn’t sell?”. Microsoft invented decades ago the reach out, embrace and choke approach which eventually sterilized competition. And putting myself in their shoes, I can almost understand these people running those corporations. They have gone through school that give high degrees based on template solving. And why not? After all, it’s the next CEO’s problem…
In the meantime, you have a desperate political scene fighting for relevancy giving us two clear message. The government will take care of you, on the one hand and work more, on the other. How about we reclaim our power. which we temporarily gave away?
In the meantime, you can watch this if you need courage, you’re not alone…
I’m excited to let you know that The Shift is about to start another powerful free teleseminar with celebrated evolutionary leader Barbara Marx Hubbard and transformational meditation teacher Patricia Ellsberg on The Shift from Ego to Essence.
You will most likely greatly benefit from this call in which they will reveal the keys to shifting from the egoic “local self” to the Essential Self — giving access to divine guidance and the ability to live with grace, confidence, creativity, purpose and joy — particularly needed in these times of great change. A much needed quality to develop these days.
It’s happening this Monday, November 21st, at 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern! Don’t worry if you can’t make it live — you can register and you’ll be sent a link to the recording.
I’m happy again to invite you to another top leader summit, the Global Oneness Day on Monday October 24th!
It’s a one-day virtual telesummit featuring 40 inspiring thought leaders such as Ambassador Chowdhury, Neale Donald Walsch, Gangaji, Kenny Loggins, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Lynne McTaggart and many more for free.
You can gain access to these leaders, October 24th, or by recording, and be part of groundbreaking sessions that offer profound insights for creating your life and our world based on the principles of oneness.
What Is Global Oneness Day? Global Oneness Day is an opportunity to connect deeply with a global community of changemakers and heart-centered people. You’ll learn practical steps and actions you can take that will benefit your life and help create a culture of Oneness.
Do you know that Smashing Pumpkin song: “Today”? That’s a little how I feel.
The gist is breakthroughs are wonderful when they happening but what we choose to do with them is where the real work is. In order for a breakthrough to happen a few things must be in place. You must be aware that life has been sending you signs, most of you the time, we disregard them until they become too powerful to neglect. See my post yesterday.
Stepping Into Your True Nature. There is a great saying in French, chase away the natural and it will come back running to haunt you. In my case, most of my adult life, I tried to look like the person I wasn’t. Needless to say, that doesn’t work in the end. When things got tough, I applied what I had been taught at school… work harder. That doesn’t work because you will eventually collapse at some point. If you do, the only alternative is to truly be yourself. Once you allow yourself to be, it feels great. The road there is more difficult.
Honoring Your Purpose. In the end, it’s a case of honoring your purpose in life. Trying to be what you are not in order to appease those who care about you is counter productive, for you and them. You must be who you are deep inside, not supposed to be.
Oh, and my personal story? Today I actually did the type of coaching I feel is the most natural. At the request of my client, I took out my pendulum and we asked questions. It felt genuine, comfortable and at the same time, I saw my real face and it wasn’t proud, righteous or anything like that. It just was. Yes, some coach would scoff at this, but other MCC will smile.
Indeed Today is the greatest, day of my life… Can’t wait for tomorrow… The Smashing Pumpkins.
The global outreach Occupy Wall Street has is impressive and at the same time scary.
The gist is when too much is too much, people will take to the street. However taking to the streets because you and I are fed up with the system leads to nothing constructive without a vision. A peaceful demonstration with a clear vision of what people want and will not tolerate is what makes a successful transition form one system to another, not just a revolution.
Revolution Without A Vision. A revolution without a clear vision fails pray to manipulation and eventually political recuperation. Occupy Wall Street started as an ad hoc movement that would never deign talking to the media. A few weeks later Unions joined the movement and now politics are getting entangled. Democrats are salivating at the idea of turning this to their favor, Republicans are offering resistance asking for people to work more instead of complaining.
Awareness In Action And Movement. In a society that leaves close to no time to think, understand our lives and stresses us into making more money in order to meet the ever increasing onslaught of bills and taxes, it is important to stop and take the time to reflect. As with anything we do in life, taking action without thinking things through, understanding our action and mostly having a vision is a sure way to falter. It’s the quickest way to make sure a special interest will either derail it or use it to its advantage.
In the meantime, those of you who wish to elucidate, please contact me.
Watching the movie: “The Science of Healing with Dr. Esther Sternberg” made me smile. Western medicine is discovering the virtues of traditional Mediterranean healthy living…
The gist is many of us know intuitively or by having lived abroad that a healthy involves a life/work balance. That documentary approaches that topic well. Dr. Sternberg discovers a century old way of living and it health benefit. In other word balancing work, play, eat, enjoy and rest makes for a healthy life.
It’s interesting to see the paradigm shift currently happening. On the one hand, there well established business 1.0 companies making a fortune on consumers not living well, eating poor food and treating ailments. What happens when more people become vegetarians, vegan and eat organic or local produced foods?
I’ve always felt uneasy with marketing tactics as the current trend aims to show anyone as experts in any fields, regardless of reality.
The gist is according to the current market criteria, you must pick a category and stick to it, even if down the road you change course. But why? In the marketing logic, once people see you as an expert and specialist, you’re on your way up. Why is that important? Experts get all the attention. However, the problem remains that when experts get it wrong, the card castle crumbles down. A current example of this is why our so-called experts and leaders in the case of our global economy and their shoddy predictions. The problem with yesterday’s marketing tactic was to bring someone up into the limelight as quickly as possible without making sure that person, or system was the “real deal”. Marketing managers and their companies have little professional pride in what they. If they did, they wouldn’t leave such a mess behind.
Who Do I Attract? The very first step before gearing up your marketing suit is to do serious soul searching. Who am I in regards to my field and why do I do the things I do? Starting from that, it will be easier to see if your marketing message and fervor is in alignment with your true self and purpose.
The Generalist Specialist. Current marketing trends don’t want you to label yourself as a generalist. But what about those generalist specialists? Your household doctor is such a person and sends you to the right specialist after examining you. So don’t beat yourself up if you are a general specialist.
Personally, I work with people who are not satisfied with business as-is and want to beyond learned methods. They want to think outside the box and cement the foundations of that all new business 2.0. It’s about time, business 1.0 is over…
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