How Do You Grab People's Attention?

In an attention challenged world, if you don't grab people's attention quickly, they'll tune out

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Grokking Steve Jobs - Build an "Insanely Great" Business

Their gap is your command

Last year like one of the multitude of enthusiastic readers of Walter Isaacson’s terrific book, I’ve been trying to grok Steve Jobs’ way of looking at the world so that my clients and I can benefit from it.

This is a work in progress but this is what I think Jobs recognized:

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How to Deal With Distractions – Concentration Interruptus and “Pseudo ADD”

When your thinking is interrupted by your brain,
you’ve got real ADD;
When it’s interrupted by the world,
you just have trouble saying, “No.”

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Steve Jobs' "Reality Distortion Field"

Steve Jobs did not have a "Reality Distortion Field," he had a "Distraction Eliminator Field."

Much has been written about Jobs creating what has been referred to as a Reality Distortion Field (RDF) that caused him to not only be incredibly convincing to others about whatever he wanted them to think but also to himself.  It was that RDF that enabled him to see exquisitely clearly something the world needed and wanted that they didn't know they needed and wanted (see Grokking Steve Jobs).

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Get to know some Heartfelt Leaders

If you haven't checked it out lately, be sure to click in on our Be Inspired  section. You'll be blown away by some of the people who have been nominated as Heartfelt Leaders and who have shared their stories with us. Our latest video interview with Paul Spiegelman, Chief Culture Officer of Stericycle (a NASDAQ listed global services organization with 13,000 employees) and the Founder of BerylHealth and The Beryl Institute, has just been posted for your viewing pleasure. You'll see that Paul is one amazing Heartfelt Leader who really "gets it". It just might make your day to hear what he has to say. Enjoy and pay it forward!

"What made you smile today?"

"Every day at least one thing makes you (and your children) smile."
- Harry Glazer

One of my close friends, attorney Harry Glazer, was telling me recently how when his kids are happy he's happy and when they're not, he's not. My wife's version of this is: "You're only as happy as your most unhappy child." I agree with both of them.

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Are Sexually Wayward Politicians Helpable?

Politicians do regret; they don't do remorse.

Meghan Daum recently wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "Weiner, Filner: Therapy and the art of political cleansing."

Politicians like Bob Filner, Anthony Weiner, Eliott Spitzer, John Edwards are treatable, but are they helpable? You be the judge.

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When You Give Love, You Get Love

People see the good in you and believe it or not, it sinks in and is paid forward!