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Don’t waste your life being envious of other people

Dr Earl R. Smith II Mentor and Adviser If you’ve been following me so far, it will not surprise you that I see the title of this chapter as something much more complex than it appears on the surface. The core question is, of course, who’s doing what to whom. The simple formulation “I envy [...]

How Long?

Dr Earl R. Smith II Mentor and Adviser How often has that question occurred to you? And what did it mean when it did? Occasionally perhaps it appeared as “how long is this going to go on?” A variation could have been “how long do I have to endure this?” Although there are plenty of [...]

Knowing What Matters

Dr. Earl R. Smith II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was during one of the first mentoring sessions with a new client that the following exchange occurred: Me: Life is much like that path of a bird through the sky. It leaves no trace. There is only the bird and flight. Client: So you are saying that your [...]

Mistakes You Can Make When Presenting to Investors – Part Two

Dr. Earl R. Smith II In the first article in this series I focused on the difference between the perspective that a founder has and the one that investors have when it comes to evaluating a company. My central point was that investors look at a company in a significantly different way. It’s not just [...]

Building a Twitter Following: Three Encounters

by Dr Earl R Smith II In my book Twitter Super-Charged I outline a strategy for building a potent Twitter audience. That strategy has brought many comments and questions from Twitter users who have never stopped to think about how their choices of who to follow and who to accept as followers have been branding [...]

Unintended Consequences

By Dr. Earl R Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com www.Dr-Smith.com When I was at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, I had the privilege of studying with Prof. Jay Forrester the father of systems dynamics. His focus was on the understanding of the behavior of complex systems. Two insights came out of his early research. The [...]

When the distance becomes too great

By Dr. Earl R Smith II DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com www.Dr-Smith.com In the beginning there was only One and that One new itself as all that there was. There was no other. Thought, that great chicanery, had yet to arrive on the scene. Rationality was an unconsidered possibility. Within the womb of that eternal Oneness, the Self experienced [...]

From Zen Mentoring – 40 Meditations

Introduction The true measure of the value of any book is not the time that you spend reading it but the time you spent thinking about what you have read. This is never truer than with a book like this one. I will have succeeded if I give you some things that you consider worth [...]

About Zen Mentoring: Forty Meditations

I have written based upon years of experience. The understandings that I have gained have been the results of failures as well as successes. If I can help you along on your journey and to help you avoid the mistakes that I have made, I will consider my efforts a success. But, like all authors, [...]

Sample from Business Development the Right Way

Introduction It doesn’t matter what business you are in; business development is one of the toughest challenges you have to meet. Your company’s future depends on your team’s ability to capture an expanding base of clients. Growth is achieved by driving into new markets – expanding business with existing clients – and avoiding serious mistakes [...]