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Networking events come and go, but The 5th Annual Skyline Club Charity Classic “Art & Soul” event on September 28, 2012, is definitely worth a little extra buzz! Located on the 28th floor of the prestigious Town Center in Southfield, Michigan, the Skyline Club has been bringing businesspeople of metro-Detroit together both socially and professionally...
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Would you take a million dollars for what you have? In his book, How To Develop Self Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking, Dale Carnegie tells the story of an article in Time Magazine about a sergeant who had been wounded on Guadalcanal. Hit in the throat by a shell fragment, this sergeant...
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Businesses are often compared to machines, with structures and frameworks, moving cogs and wheels, and other moving parts. But if you think about it, they’re really more like living organisms that respond to their natural environment. Just like you and me—or any living organism for that matter—businesses are in a constant state of growth....
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Sigmund Freud said that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great. John Dewey, one of America’s most profound philosophers, phrased it a bit differently. Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is “the desire to be important.” What do you...
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There are certain inevitabilities that everyone in business, not-for-profit and politics will face: Mistakes. Unfortunately, they tend to affect your clients, past clients, prospects, referral sources, constituents, donors, etc.   The Simple Truth Is Mistakes Will Happen! And knowing that mistakes are inevitable allows you to prepare yourself and your employees on how to...
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Dale Carnegie knew that the secret to developing real friendships was to become genuinely interested in other people. For example, for years he made it a point to find out the birthdays of his friends. Although he didn’t have the foggiest bit of faith in astrology, he began by asking the other party whether...
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Your subconscious mind is a powerful tool for decision-making and attracting wants, needs and desires into your life. But the subconscious—unlike our conscious minds—doesn’t form opinions or get insulted. It simply accepts the stimuli that we program into it and goes to work acting upon it. This is both good and bad: Good, because...
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Achieving your goals begins with sitting down and writing them out on paper. Nothing stimulates your creativity more rapidly and predictably than your making a clear decision about exactly what you want and then making a plan for making it happen. Remember, you become what you think about most of the time. Think about...
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Here are some tidbits of information in today’s news that should be of interest to business- and career-minded citizens of the great state of Michigan…   450 New Jobs to Open Up in southeast Michigan… NEW BOSTON, MI- A global automotive parts supplier plans to invest up to $60 million in a shuttered southeastern...
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Occasional stressful client interactions are inevitable, and it’s not always easy to be kind and patient when someone is angry or upset. They often have an unending list of requests, demands and deadlines, and they expect you to meet all of them. But you’re committed to your clients, for they are the reason you’re...
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