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Survival Mode Can Kill You

By J Randy Hall

I can’t count the times I’ve heard the expression “survival mode” over the past year.  It seems like every company struggling due to the recession moves into “survival mode” as if they physically relocate the entire organization to a place where thinking past next month’s numbers will get you kicked off the island.  After all, “if we don’t resort to survival mode now we may not be around for the long term”.   The same thinking was around three years, five years and ten years ago and it sounded like “if we don’t make our growth numbers this quarter we may not be around for the long term”.

Survival mode is not new.  In fact, it’s the very kind of thinking that contributed greatly to us being in a recession in the first place.  We just have a better excuse for it now that we can point to a reason for being myopic.  There’s no question that in this economy businesses need to manage the bottom line, cut costs, rationalize their talent and make hard decisions.  But there’s nothing about that list that businesses shouldn’t be doing on a daily basis.  What’s dangerous about survival mode is the focus on the immediate future rather than the efforts to build a lasting sustainable business.

Let me give you a real world example of two companies that dealt with the recession in very different ways.  Both are service providers in the same industry and both experienced a severe drop in revenue as the economic crisis began.  The first company immediately began to reach out to their customers and confirm that the customers would abide by their contracted agreements. When there was a sense that the customers may need to shift their earlier purchase decisions pressure was applied to keep the services on the books with no changes. The CEO applied just as much pressure to the sales teams to “do whatever it takes” to hold customers to their agreements. In the first few months, it had the desired effect and bolstered the slipping revenues for the company.

The second company in the exact same situation took a different approach.  The CEO had everyone call their customers and tell them that clearly the marketplace was changing and that maybe the customers needs were changing as well in this new economic climate.  They asked each of their clients to sit down with them and re-evaluate their needs.  The company expressed their willingness to make any adjustments that were right for the customers business now, even if they were different than when they signed the service agreement.  At first, they had many customers reduce their services, but they didn’t panic.  Through those candid conversations with their clients they discovered some new ways to help them deal with the economic challenges and the clients often learned of services that they weren’t aware of because they had never used them before.  While the company took an initial revenue hit, they broadened the client’s view of their capabilities and built priceless good will by reaching out to renegotiate the current contracts.  Their revenues are up 15% over last year.  The first company is down double digits and struggling to keep the doors open.

Every leader needs to make tough calls and rationalize costs in this extremely challenging market situation but those who use the recession as an excuse to think only about tomorrow’s revenue will emerge from the recession far weaker, if they emerge at all. It will take creative and thoughtful leadership to bring a business through this turmoil ready to grow.  Business leaders staring only at next month are rarely creative or thoughtful.  Those leaders have panicked and the organization will panic with them.  Tough choices, make them, cuts that help you run more efficiently and leaner, make them too.  The moment you stop focusing on the future as a leader though, you lose the ability to reach it.

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Top Three Career Paths For English Majors

By Tony Jacowski

The bachelor’s degree in English is a very versatile degree and it provides its recipients a host of useful skills they can take with them in a career.

If you are an English major and you haven’t quite determined what you will do with your degree once you have earned it the following information may be of use to you.

Librarian

Often people pursue a degree in English because they have a passion for literature. This makes the library sciences and ideal career path for many people who earn an English degree.

So, what exactly does a librarian do? Librarians purchase and deselect books for the library’s collection. They manage electronic resources such as the library’s website and database.

They handle material lending with other institutions, maintain archives, mange staff and assist visitors with research and questions.

Publishing

Earning a degree in English makes a student ideally suited for the world of publishing. There are many avenues in the field of publishing which and English major can explore.

They can pursue editing for books and other print publications. In addition, they can pursue fact checking, journalism, writing and copywriting.

Publishing is an ideal career track for English majors who want to do something that is creative.

Teaching

Many people who earn their degree in English end up in a career in Education.

Ideally, most end up teaching English, Language Arts, Reading, Literature or another related course in secondary school or college. Depending on where a person plans to live or work they may need to take some additional courses to use their English degree in this capacity.

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Self Improvement Seminar Helps to Take You to a Higher Level of Success

By Sunny James

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It is easier than you may think. You can read inspirational and motivational books or listen to audio. The results that you can get from this type of information is very limiting, even though it is very good and up beat. Because most folks get stuck some where along the way and then do not have a clue how to get beyond where they are at and they just quit. This leads to their own failure and then the vicious cycle works on you.

If you are truly wanting to get great long lasting results then it is best to get yourself involved with a training seminar where you have a coach that teaches and mentors you. They know how to inspire and motivate you to get the types of results that you are looking for in your life.

Highly successful people know the true importance of getting on going training and mentoring for themselves this will help them excel.

When you learn through one on one coaching or group coaching there is a level of accountability and results that you just can not get from a book. Then when you are stuck some where along the way you have the help and mentorship you need to get you back on track. This type of training is so valuable and the level of results that you are get can not be matched through any other way of learning.

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There Are Not Two Minds

By Shirlee Hall

There is a power that can bring more wealth, health, happiness and joy into our lives once we learn how to contact and use it. If things are not working the way you would like them to in your life, you will need to do something that you have not tried as yet. There are potentialities within the deeper part of the mind that will take form in the world without through conscious control. Within the subconscious part of the mind you will find the solution for every problem and the cause for every effect. We are constantly being influenced by the subconscious. The secret is to know how to open the door to that part of the mind and become skilled in practicing the inner powers and knowledge.

Whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed in life as a condition, experience or event. Your subconscious works according to the law of belief…your belief. If you do not like what is manifesting in your life, change the laws of your mind. Law, belief, thought and reactions run the subconscious. The reactions are your experiences, events, conditions and acts. If you desire to change the inner laws established through experience and acceptance, it is helpful to apply scientific methods that work according to the law of action and reaction.

Although there is only one mind, it possesses two distinctive characteristics…objective and subjective, conscious and subconscious, waking and sleeping, surface and deep, voluntary and the involuntary, the male and female and similar terms. You are a gardener planting seed thoughts in your subconscious all day long based on habitual thinking. It stands to reason that if you plant thoughts of peace, happiness, right action, good will, prosperity, self-mastery, success and love, the soil of the subconscious part of the mind will eventually reap the desired harvest. The first step is to take charge of your thoughts since they are the seeds. It is of utmost importance that thoughts are monitored. It is only then that you can apply the powers of the subconscious to your advantage.

Conscious and subconscious are only terms. The two are spheres of activity with one mind. The conscious is obviously the thinking part or reasoning tool. It chooses and makes decisions while the subconscious sphere accepts what is impressed upon it or what you consciously believe. It is helpful to look upon the subconscious as the soul, which accepts any kind of seed, good or bad. This is why it is important to guard our thoughts during experiences of loss, limitation and sorrow. The subconscious simply responds to the nature of thought and suggestion. There are many successful techniques available to help clear out the negative impressions. The problem is most people don’t stick with their intent. To bring about a solution, repetitive practice is required. Through repetition and perserverance, good results will happen. It could take weeks or longer but, changes will manifest.

Since the subconscious is incapable of making selections and comparisons, it is very important that you select your thoughts, ideas and premises that will help and not hinder peace, prosperity, joy or health. All great spiritual teachers suggest we guard the gate to the five senses. The conscious part of the mind uses the five physical senses to observe the objective world. Knowledge is gained through the five senses. The subconscious or subjective part of the mind works independently of the five senses; it perceives through intuition. In other words, the subconscious is the storehouse of memory, the seat of emotions. It has the capacity of clairvoyance and clairaudience, can leave your body, travel to distant lands and bring back information. It is through the subjective part of the mind that you are able to read the thoughts of others and know things that the thinking mind has no way of knowing. It cannot argue or reason, only accept any suggestions given to it as being absolutely true.

You can reverse beliefs that work against your happiness through the repetition of constructive and harmonious thoughts. Habitual thinking of your conscious sphere establishes deep grooves in your storehouse. This is fine when thoughts are positive. Understanding this process, it becomes very obvious that it is important to offer the inner creative force positive programming. A good practice is to write your desires down and repeat them daily as your personal transformation plan. Feed your subconscious with thoughts that will work for your happiness and good. Begin by stating that your desire is being directed to the Infinite Source and your intention is to harm no one. Establish an attitude of gratefulness and keep with this discipline for a thirty day period. The subconscious will accept your suggestions and act upon them.

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