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A Personal Message:

Amazingly, I’ve been writing Mindset for 11 years. I thank you for your interest and support. Maria and I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah and best of the season no matter whether you celebrate it religiously or secularly (and even if it’s Festivus). In our Christian faith, this is a celebratory time and one of tolerance and forgiveness, traits all too lacking in these troubled days. We wish you and your families and loved ones health, peace, and prosperity, and the best for the New Year.

The Great “Designation”

I have news for you, there is no “great resignation.” There are people who have been thinking about greener pastures and better working conditions for a long time, and there are a lot of them. However, people don’t leave organizations, they leave bosses.

Typically, the response to adverse working conditions has resulted in attempts at unionization, sabotage, or absenteeism. Right now, both Amazon and Starbucks are facing unionization movements which would cost a fortune if the unions win. But think about the fact that Amazon has warehouses in which employees’ breaks aren’t sufficient to get them to a rest room and where some use bottles to relieve themselves.

That doesn’t happen in your home office, right?

But people keep their Amazon jobs because the pay is good given the worker’s experience and education, and it’s highly secure given Amazon’s growth. What drives some over the edge and out the door is a particular boss who’s unbending and unreasonable, and even cruel.

As usual, the media hype

I salute anyone in a free market looking to improve their lot and accept the commensurate risks. You can move from frying pan into the fire and wind up in worse shape. (The say the worst thing about going to hell is that even the coffee is bad.)

But the media “hype” here is in full dudgeon, because the economy is strong, unemployment is low, and they need to find something to demonstrate to people that they ought to be miserable. That supply chain is killing us, right?

Some organizations are being hurt by lack of qualified applicants. I’m not convinced that anyone driving for Amazon deliveries really has a driver’s license. However, why isn’t this uniform?

Why are some hotels, airlines, restaurants, and retail stores fully staffed with capable people, and others aren’t, just down the street (or elsewhere on the internet)? It’s because of the same problem that drove people out the doors to begin with: lousy management.

That’s where you and I come in. And if you don’t think that’s a major issue today, just look at GE, once a powerhouse (founded by Thomas Alva Edison), a darling of the DOW, and now forced to divide itself into three parts to offer a chance for survival (it still has $65 billion in debt).

Summary

It all comes down to people, not clever phrases or bloviation from some professor with a best-selling book. If you throw inept people out at the top you won’t see perfectly “ept” people heading for the doors at the bottom!

Developmental Opportunities

Million Dollar Consulting^® for the World

I’ve provided 14 modules with videos from me, from your colleagues globally, slides, and text. They include everything from launch to self-esteem, proposals to fees, closing business to creating a brand. No upsells! It's only $115. What do you think about a 10,000:1 ROI?

Sentient Strategy

Over 60 people certified in six countries and a dozen sales have already ensued. EVERY business needs a new post-pandemic strategy, and this process can be applied virtually or in person in as little as a day. I recommend a minimum $35,000 fee. The certification is only $12,000, and I support you for 90 days.

Read about it here and/or write me here: [email protected]

Controlling Conversations

How do you subtly yet assertively keep the conversation with prospective buyers moving toward trust, disclosure, and the agreement to accept a proposal? Master this, and you’ll raise your hit rate by 100%. This is a Zoom experience at 10 am US eastern time on January 18, with a recording provided afterward. Only $450

Hosting Revenue-Generating Meetings

Join me for this live event from 9 to 4 in Boston on January 27. We’ll focus on how to set up a meeting with prospects, how to improve your lists and leverage others’ lists, the proper content, how to involve “attractors” in your publicity, the three sales-potential areas to pursue, provocative content, and we’ll practice and create a plan, too! I’ll take six hours to show you how to create a dynamic, revenue-generating 90 minutes (and the weeks of preparation). $1,500 for a full day with me.

Six Figures to Seven (627)

I haven’t run this in several years, and then only twice in the US and once in London, once in Sydney. It’s occurred to me that I now know additional and faster ways to reach seven figures, having helped hundreds of people to get there. And the pandemic experience has major implications. Million Dollar Consulting and “seven figures” are metaphors for achieving the lifestyle and true wealth (discretionary time) that you desire. This experience, which I may never repeat at this stage, will get you there.

February 10-11, 2022 (two full days)Las Vegas, Nevada

Fee: $3,500 through December 31, 2021, $4,500 as of January 1, 2022.

Book in A Day in LA

Now, during my first time in Los Angeles in over two years, I’m running a six-hour program (and buying lunch) in which everyone will create a full commercial book proposal or completed template for a self-published book. You will develop—with me that day—a title, subtitle, at least ten chapter headings, annotated chapter descriptions, competitive analysis, marketing platform, and an outlined sample chapter. You can submit these to an agent, acquisitions editor at a publishing house, or a vanity press (or simply publish it yourself in hard copy and/or electronic form).

No one else—no one, nadie—can do this with you in this amount of time but me. And you’ll have a rollicking good time, meet colleagues with whom you’ll create long-term relationships, and tell people you spent a day with “the Rock Star of Consulting.”

Only $450!