The Gods Of Politics and Business Demand A Sacrifice!

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The Gods Of Politics and Business Demand A Sacrifice!

Dear Whomsoever:

Very often, the perceived gods of business and politics demand a sacrifice. It is usually a Human sacrifice (either literally, or in terms of his/her reputation or career), and of course, the sacrifice must be as free of sin as possible (kind of like that Issac fellow, from the Old Testament) so that sinners who sacrifice him/her can get back into the good graces of the gods. Also, it's always best, in selfishly considering one's own well-being, to satisfy the hunger of the beast by feeding someone else to him.


Put in simple terms: "The gods of politics and business frequently require a Human sacrifice. The individual selected for this honor cannot be burned at an altar -- the more humane and politically acceptable way of sacrifice is performed by throwing the offered Person under a bus while he or she is still alive, hyperventilating and bewildered." --Douglas Castle


Not to appear to be questioning of customs, policies, the status quo or persons in positions of authority, but I cannot help but wonder whether these sacrifices truly appease the gods, or whether they merely act as a diversion so that the evildoers can continue to do their evil without the villagers asking any further questions. Heck. It's all so confusing.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle  - THE DAILY BURST OF BRILLIANCE .001
http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ 

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Leadership Is Actually Quite Simple...

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Leadership Is Actually Quite Simple... "Leadership? Simple! Inspire and unite your team with your vision and charisma; then expedite goal attainment while minimizing conflict." - Douglas Castle The only tools that you require (and you can get them at almost any hardware store or delicatessen) are these: 1. A vision, and the ability to communicate it to others (and sometimes to refresh their memories) so that it is highly visible and "comes to life" in their hearts as well as in their heads. 2. The ability to demonstrate how the achievement of your vision benefits each and all of the members of the team, and how each team member will be making an important and emotionally-satisfying contribution for the benefit of all. 3. The ability to draw a plan which includes input from each member as well as a vital role to be played on the part of each member. In the planning process, you must serve as a moderator and a mediator (while maintaining focus and intensity) so that the plan produced will be the product of every team member's work. 4. The energy to drive the entire team toward the objective, and to consistently keep them on course even when they are fatigued, distracted or disillusioned, or while they are in conflict with the team or with individual members within the team. 5. The wisdom of King Solomon to make decisions which resolve conflicts without creating lasting bitterness, the inclination toward sabotage of the objective, and which minimize ongoing rivalries or enmity between any two parties, or between any one member and the entire group. You must be a warrior, a vigilant observer of subtle shifts in mood and momentum, and you must be perceived as a fair and reasonable judge and resolver of disputes. Good luck to all of my friends and colleagues who aspire to be great leaders. Being a great leader requires more sensitivity, skill and balance than walking a greased, gossamer-thin tightrope without a net underneath you. You may be a hero, but you may be hated just as easily. You will be judged not only on your ability to get the team to the objective -- you will be judged on every decision that you make along the incremental process to goal attainment. You will be terribly lonely. You will feel infinitely responsible, but you will always be the ultimate source of blame. It will age you, and it will stretch you beyond any limits which you thought you had - and then stretch you further, until you fit the challenge. The rewards will ultimately be quiet and introspective - you will have the knowledge, deep within you, of knowing that you lead the charge to achieve something that chnaged the world, or some aspect of it, for the better of the people for whom you felt responsible. Leaders are necessary, but being in a position of leadership is an appalling responsibility for a mortal. My only advice to you is this: Do not be a leader unless something needs to be done and you are consumed by the desire to get it done. It is a calling and a compulsion, much more than an opportunity or a social or business position. On occasion, I have thought of leadership as a punishment or exercise necessary in order for you, as a person, to evolve into somone or something better. Faithfully, Douglas Castle Chairman and Director of Strategic Planning TNNWC Group, LLC ---------------- Douglas Castle - THE DAILY BURST OF BRILLIANCE .001 http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ http://takingcommand.blogspot.com/ http://www.douglascastleblogosphere.com/ TAKING COMMAND! - http://takingcommand.blogspot.com/

"People are almost never whom them present themselves to be. They tend to talk about either whom they would like to be, or whom they would not like to be." - Douglas Castle

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Dear Friends, Members, Colleagues, Readers, Leaders and Entrepreneurs: "People are almost never whom them present themselves to be. They tend to talk about either whom they would like to be, or whom they would not like to be." - Douglas Castle  People have an uncanny tendency to present themselves to us, and to others, by pointedly denying their weaknesses and overstating their strengths. They ar trying to paint a picture for us. This is not generally deliberate, it is unconscious defensive behavior. Most people, with the exception of true sociopaths, do this innocently. They try to give us evidence upon which to judge them before we have a chance to get to know them and to draw our own conclusions. The paradox here is that people are lonely -- they want someone, somewhere, to fully understand them -- yet, they are afraid to let their personalities and actions speak for themselves. Why? They are afraid of being judged or misunderstood. This behavior is a pre-emptive, deeply inculcated self-defense and survival mechanism which is reinforced by society. When you hear someone speak about himself or herself, particularly about their strengths, what they don't like in others, and all of such introductory "profile information," take note. These are their points of personal sensitivity, fear or denial. Use this knowledge to work more effectively with them. It almost always works for your benefit, and for the growth and personal benefit of the other person. This is indeed a brilliant observation about behavioral psychology, but then again, I am never one to boast or brag [irony, here. just kidding]. Faithfully, Douglas Castle http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ http://takingcommand.blogspot.com/ http://braintenance.blogspot.com/ Tags, Labels and Key Terms: behavioral psychology, deceptions, denial, first impressions, profiling personalities, better relationships, leadership, what motivates people, fears and phobias, self-growth, HR department, breaking down psychological defenses, understanding people, team-beuilding, leadership, Douglas E. Castle, quotations of Douglas Castle, TNNWC Services, TNNWC Buzzworks, Human relations, power and perception, reading people, sending signals, lying, self-defense, sociopathy, the inner-child, Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs, seeing through the fog, cues to personality, DouglasCastleBlogosphere, blogs, The National Networker Weekly Newsletter, DSM IV, persuasion, seduction, recruitment, friendships, business skills, Human Resources, choosing partners, reading between the lines, Douglas Castle - THE DAILY BURST OF BRILLIANCE .001 http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/
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2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life - Daily Burst Of Brilliance .001

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2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life Dear Friends and Worthy Opponents: My unsolicited advice to everyone (without exceptions or exclusions), includes 2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life. Learn and follow these simple suggestions, and you will enjoy a happier, much more productive life. Fail to learn and follow these suggestions at your own peril. 1) If you have a conflict or an issue with a person, take the time to communicate with that person directly, and do not operate through agents, gossip, or third parties. Communicate your own message directly to the person with whom you have a conflict or issue, and it is likely that either a) the issue can be resolved quickly, or, b) if this is not possible, you can begin to plan for the best alternative while preparing  for the worst from the person whom you've confronted. Your most critical communications in life will be thoses that are one-to-one and direct; 2) Do not say anything to anyone which you would not want the entire world to know about, or to have attributed to you as the one who said it. Odds are that backbiting, insults and other "off-color" things which you say about someone else in "in private" will be repeated to some other party or parties at some time. When you speak, pretend that the videos are rolling, the microphones are on, and that the van parked halfway down your block is loaded with people from some secret government agency, monitoring your words and actions in the process of collecting testimony to use against you. This is not paranoia...it is pragmatism. You can sign your own conviction, death warrant or epitaph by having your words heard or repeated to a third party in a different context. Do not be caught in a lie, or get yourself branded as a whiner, a snitch or a bigot. Two added advantages are that it is a) easiest to remember the truth and what you actually did and said, and b) you can never, ever be surprised by anyone using your own words or actions against you. Best of all, living by these two rules will assure that you will always be thinking and speaking with sincerity, clarity and accountability. Everything in life is "on the record." Faithfully, Douglas Castle

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Education or Indoctrination? - Douglas Castle

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Education or Indoctrination? - Douglas Castle ~Education or Indoctrination? ~Intellectual Growth or Behavioral Containment? ~Encouragement of Innovation, or Rewarding of Conformity?  Q: I am growing increasingly curious to determine the underlying purposes for our academic institutions and practices. What portion of our education is given to encourage us to think and to learn...and what portion of our education (through the established educational system) is intended simply to control and contain us? Question Authority. Question the Status Quo. Question the motivation of any person or organization which discourages the very act of questioning. - DC Faithfully, Douglas Castle http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ http://wwwtnnwc.com/ p.s. Please visit http://bit.ly/SNATCHandGRAB . Encourage others to do the same. Incidentally, the aforementioned site has nothing whatsoever to do with this article Tags, Labels and Key Terms for this Article: education, behavioral psychology, manipulation, indoctrination, control, blind faith, loyalty, conformity, ingenuity, innovation, educational systems, learning, knowledge, authority, Milgram's experiments, Taking Command, Articles by Douglas E. Castle, questioning is an integral part of learning, curiousity, hidden agendas, motivations, shaping young minds, entrepreneurship, TNNWC Group, the pressure to 'fit in', the boat rockers versus the establishment, challenging the status quo, resistance to change, teachers as zookeepers, teachers as educators, inspiration, peer pressure, the pressure of perceived authority, intimidation, capitalization, capitalism, faulty premises, abuses of power Douglas Castle - THE DAILY BURST OF BRILLIANCE .001 http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com   TAKING COMMAND! - http://TakingCommand.blogspot.com  

FACT: You've either gotten your audience's "buy-in" within 2 - 5 minutes, or you've lost them. http://bit.ly/GetTheirAttention

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FACT: You've either gotten your audience's "buy-in" within the first two to five minutes, or you've lost them. GIST: http://bit.ly/GetTheirAttention 

Remember: Before you can educate, you must: 1. Get their attention. 2. Focus them. 3. Keep the energy level high. If you overspeak, your impact and impression WILL decline. You'll lose the edge you've gained. As my uncle Gene (who worked in the circus) used to say: "Kid! You gotsa always leave 'em hungry for more. If you give 'em a big feast, they'll fall asleep on ya." Uncle Gene was also a major proponent of "Electroschock Therapy," and used to go for ECT appointments faithfully on a daily basis. He was the first member of our family to pioneer a 70's "Afro" hairstyle. Faithfully, Douglas Castle MAD MARKETING TACTICS™ ! Get MAD... Get CRAZY... Get MOVING... Get ATTENTION! Visit us at http://MadMarketingTactics.blogspot.com

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Tim Geithner and IRS After Val Kilmer's Bacon. Kilmer Still (Quite) At Large!

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TNNWC BREAKING NEWS! Tim Geithner and IRS After Val Kilmer's Bacon. Kilmer Still (Quite) At Large! Note: Click on the pic to watch Val Grow! Just like a Chia Pet! --DC

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TNNWC Group, LLC, in Brief TNNWC Group, LLC empowers emerging enterprises locally, worldwide and inter-globally by providing 1) informational publications and products; 2) an indispensible suite of crucial, unparalleled services for business planning, development, growth, marketing and capitalization, which are offered to all of our Members who are all 3) interactively involved within a growing, mutually-supportive collaborative, cooperative community of individuals and businesses. We are run by entrepreneurial people, and we live to serve entrepreneurial people and the business initiated through their inspiration… from the garage-based technological start-up, to the “small business” wanting to break free of its limitations and grow larger at an accelerated but sustainable pace. We Empower Emerging Enterprises™ - not with “happy talk” and “grandiose ideas”… but with real tools and expert interpersonal guidance to use each of them for their optimal effectiveness. Visit us at TNNWC Group, LLC. - Join us. We have so much to offer you. Our philosophy is simple: UNITE AND CONQUER.

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