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Are. You a complete expression of your better self · Inside Strategic Relations

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  Are you a subject matter expert who has knowledge and experience in their field but
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  wants to turn that into passive income or wants to turn that into consulting assignments.
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  Hey, I'm just in hit with inside strategic relations Many of our subscribers
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  have knowledge and experience in a field. They're between thirty five and fifty six,
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  and they've gotten to a point in their career where they feel this upward
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  mobility is starting to go away. Whether it's economic changes, whether it's opportunity
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  in their job. They know that trading dollars for hours is not going to
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  get them to where they want to be in their performance of a career life
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  in general. Now, through strategic relationships, you can open up new opportunities,
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  you can reach new people in the marketplace, you can find that next
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  opportunity. But sometimes what you're doing right now is actually the best thing you
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  can be doing for the skill set you have, for the relationships you have,
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  and for the knowledge. Now, one of the things that I do
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  for clients is we develop plans, or we take plans that I've done in
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  the past, and I help you implement them. So you'll notice that I
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  have reports and courses and materials that maybe they don't seem complete to you,
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  but they usually outline a plan that take you from point A to point B
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  to point C. They develop for you a course of action that, when
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  implemented, get certain results. So if you want to enhance your career,
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  earn more money, have greater influence in the marketplace, be recognized as an
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  expert, position yourself to have opportunities come to you, or or any other
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  thing that has to do with developing business relationships. I typically have a plan
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  or can help you develop a plan specific to your situation, write it down,
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  hand it to you, and then just simply help you implement it.
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  Now, why is this so powerful? Well, one of the things is
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  is that with the Internet, we have so much content that we come up
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  with new ideas at a rate faster that we can implement them. And so
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  it's not the idea that has value, it's the implementation with value. Now,
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  think about this. If you have a problem in your life and you
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  do the exercise that I talk about, grab a piece of paper, you
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  write the problem at the top of the paper. You develop a problem statement.
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  You can easily build out some kind of root cause so you can figure
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  out why you have the problem. But if you stop there, you're actually
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  going to be worse off than you were when you only had the problem,
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  because see, now you have the problem and you know why you have the
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  problem, but you still don't have a solution. So there's this built up
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  pressure to solve the problem. When you want things instantaneously and you go to
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  the internet and you say, okay, well I have this problem and here's
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  what's causing the problem. How do we get to a solution. You're going
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  to likely find answers, but not good answers. It's like the problem with
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  artificial intelligence. It'll always give you an answer, it won't necessarily give you
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  a good answer. So when you're looking at quality and implementation, you need
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  some means of measuring whether what you're doing is generating the outcome that you're looking
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  for. Now, very often the delta between where you are and where you
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  want to be. That is the feeling that you have that seems to be
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  a problem. But I'll tell you throughout life, I've I've made hundreds and
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  fifty hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I've made millions of dollars for
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  clients, and it always feels like you could be doing better. And even
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  when I've done worse, made zero in a year, it always feels like
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  you could do better. But in both situations there's a dramatic difference in the
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  outcome, but it's the same person. And as I develop as an individual,
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  the only thing I have to show for my effort is these plans and
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  reports, and there's hundreds of them on my shelf. So basically every consulting
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  assignment, we document the processes and procedures. We document the problems that we're
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  having, We document the conditions in which those problems exist. We developed plans.
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  That's plural, sometimes there's more than one plan that's necessary to get results.
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  We develop sets of goals and how we're going to measure those goals,
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  and they're on shelves in my office. And so even though I've got all
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  these solutions, I still have the same problems you guys have. Now.
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  Of course, I'm better equipped to solve the problems in a lot of cases
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  because I've gotten the experience, just like you are better equipped to solve many
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  of the problems that potential clients may have because you have experience. The difference
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  is you may be trapped inside of a workplace today where you're given forty hours
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  a week, not realizing that at any time they can let you go,
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  and you don't have that residual value. That gives you the opportunity to branch
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  out. It gives you the opportunity to start developing passive income, the opportunity
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  to open doors where you can't physically be there. Now, think about this,
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  this is very important. I've written a number of books, and while
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  they have not been best sellers, while they don't sell a lot on Amazon,
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  I can feedex somebody my book, so I pre qualify them. I
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  identify that they got a problem that I can help them solve. I write
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  a cover letter, I FedEx them a copy of my book. Almost one
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  hundred percent of the time, within thirty days, I will have an appointment
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  with that individual. I will have some kind of contract with that individual.
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  I always get some kind of callback. But there's commerce that happens. Sometimes
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  it's small, sometimes it's big. But it's that book that shows up in
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  advance that primes the pump to them identifying me as a recognized expert in their
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  area. Now I'm not sending out hundreds of these books every week. It
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  costs money to send books, between four to five dollars. You'd be surprised
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  how little it costs. But ultimately the book itself can speak for me.
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  It can go out there, just like these podcasts. These can go out
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  there in the marketplace. Somebody can listen to it and say, Look,
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  I've got a problem and i don't know how to solve it, and I've
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  identified the root cause, and I'm feeling this pressure of solving it. But
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  I don't have the time, I don't have the focus, I don't have
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  the organization. Because the brain that has the problem isn't necessarily the brain that
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  can solve the problem. Let me contact Justin I'm going to contact Justin hit.
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  He's going to help me identify the problem more clearly, determine whether or
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  not we should solve the problem, develop a root cause. From the root
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  cause, develop corrective actions so that we can implement a solution incrementally rather than
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  having to be in there all at once. He's going to do a project
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  plan, is going to coach me during the implementation. It's going to walk
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  me through the ideas and concepts that are necessary to solve this problem. May
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  even find contractors. You can help solve the problem passively. Do you see
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  what we're talking about here? The same thing that I can do for my
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  clients with my more than thirty years of experience. Because I started when I
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  was a teenager, I got the mentors that I needed, I had the
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  experiences in life. I wasn't afraid of mistakes, I wasn't afraid of success
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  or failure. We can translate that into your own experience. Give you the
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  tools that you need. So now you can take your twenty years of experience,
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  your fifteen years of experience and package it. Okay, So in my
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  program Establish Instant Credibility, we talk about how do you help the people who
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  can hire you see you as someone who's credible, someone with expertise. It
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  just really gets me how a lot of people are trying to prove to Google
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  that they're an expert. But they don't clean up their LinkedIn profile, they
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  don't put their LinkedIn profile in front of people who can make buying decisions,
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  who can make hiring decisions. They don't gather and collect a database of recruiters,
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  a database of hiring managers. Now I know it seems like a little
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  bit of work, but I see it more as an investment in future opportunity.
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  There are some of you guys out there and gals that have experience,
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  that have stories that you could tell that are interesting and help stimulate ideas about
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  how you particularly can help solve problems. And if those stories were in front
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  of the right people, those people would just pick up the phone and call
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  you and say, hey, look, do you know are you interested in
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  a new opportunity. It wouldn't be those spammy ones that are on LinkedIn.
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  It wouldn't be the you know, I don't know how many times you get
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  phone calls, but I get phone calls all the time from recruiters who sought
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  me out and say, look, I've got a risk management position in my
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  environment and I think you're a perfect match for it. I'd like to I
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  already got a copy resume. I'd like to interview. You. See.
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  I had a mentor who every month would interview, even though he enjoyed his
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  position, even though he was in a leadership role, he would interview for
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  a new opportunity every month within his career area. This helped him identify problems
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  that he faced and didn't know he had think about that you know you have
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  some problems and better business relationships would solve those problems. But you don't know
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  the problems that you don't You don't know about the problems you can identify.
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  So there's actually problems that you have right now that you think are something else
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  because you don't know how to identify the problem, clarify the problem, identify
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  the root cause, and prioritize in order to resolve it. You could have
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  fifty problems where you only think you have three problems. The problem could be
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  you, the problem could be the company you're working for. My point being
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  is that by having a systematic approach, working with mentors identifying an opportunity in
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  the marketplace, you're going to be more capable of solving problems. So this
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  mentor of mine would go out and job interview. And he did this when
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  he was just an individual contributor. He did this when he was a middle
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  manager. He did this when he's vice president of the company. He did
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  this while he had ownership and equity in the company as a partner. Now
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  you might say, well, that sounds like he's got a pretty good career,
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  And he did stay with the company for twenty two years, but every
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  month for twenty two years he interviewed with their competitors. He interviewed with other
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  organizations, and it was known that he was doing this because sometimes the rumors
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  would get back to the vice presidents and stuff that he was out there interviewing.
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  But what he was using these interviews for is of course, finding a
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  new opportunity. There were times when he got offered a new opportunity that was
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  better than the opportunity he had there. He went out and looked at competitive
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  intelligence. He was interviewing people who he sometimes eventually hired, so he's using
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  the interview to expand his network. He was interviewing to find out what challenges
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  other people in his industry, his peers were facing. So the problems that
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  he didn't know he had, now again he did get better offers than what
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  he had. He got them in writing, and then he took them to
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  the company he currently worked for, so he had loyalty in the company he
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  worked for, and in this he got promoted. Because a good company will
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  identify those people who are even more valuable outside the organization and they'll either let
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  them go or they'll move them up in the organization to utilize those resources.
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  And that's just one example, because this gentleman ended up in the same organize,
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  going from individual contributor to actually having an equity stake, and then when
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  the company got bought out, he ended up having a huge payout. So
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  there were times where his offer outside of the company was larger than the company
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  could afford, and so he negotiated, now, we don't want to be
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  afraid of our problems, because sometimes he found out that he wasn't getting paid
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  where he should be getting paid for the value that he's contributing and the problems
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  that he's solving and the skills that he puts into his work. And that
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  was a problem he didn't know he had. And then he went to the
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  company and the company had a problem where they couldn't pay him anymore. So
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  they negotiated lump some payments to his four oh one K or his retirement account,
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  equity stake, private options, a new role inside the organization, adding
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  or reducing the size of his team. See, the problems aren't the issue.
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  It's your ability to implement reasonable solutions that create sometimes new problems, but
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  create a better situation or environment for you in the future. So the reason
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  that I've documented all these things is because I work very well on paper.
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  When I help client solve a problem, I want to give them a plan
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  that they can just go implement, and they only come back to me to
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  solve new problems, or they come back to me to refine their implementation.
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  Because my skill set is project management, risk management, and business development.
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  And in fact, risk management and business development with the project management layered onto
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  it, the procurement layered onto it, the implementation layered onto it is really
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  where my strengths are. But your strengths could be completely different. And so
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  I take a report, I take a book, I take a material,
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  and we build an action plan synergistic to your unique situation. And then you
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  go implement that action plan and you get results that you can measure. You
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  get movement towards a a clear goal and objective. You put behind you the
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  problems that you don't need to solve. See, marketing in this world helps
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  you develop problems is those shortage of problems. But a lot of your problems
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  you don't need to solve. And so why focus resources on things that,
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  even if they were solved, aren't going to improve your situation. It's complex.
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  I understand that, but when you want to transform business relationships into profits,
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  you need to know what the profits are, and you need to know
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  the value of the relationships. And very often if we try to physically be
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  there and solve these relationships, there just isn't enough hours in the day.
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  So development of tools, development of systems, and means of implementation that don't
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  require your direct action are always to take it to the next level. So
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  back to my mentor, he actually had an assistant that would go find him
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  new opportunities. He actually had all of his training and his conference time devote
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  it to improving his ability to be accepted for new opportunities. And then ultimately,
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  in his day to day work, he implemented everything he could find that
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  would improve the organization. He made himself invaluable to the organization. That was
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  his plan. He didn't do fifty things. He did three things. Was
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  great at his job, was great at letting other people know he's great at
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  his job, and a contributor to his career so that he was recognized as
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  an expert in that area. For you, it could be three different things,
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  it could be three of the same things. The key is when working
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  on paper, we can often model and structure differently than we can if it's
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  just trapped inside your head. And one of the things that I do with
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  clients is in the coaching sessions is we help extract those things. I help
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  evaluate what you're looking at, and we develop a plan in writing. This
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  methodology works whether you want to grow a business and so you're an executive,
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  if you want to grow a business, or you are an executive as far
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  as a knowledge worker or a talented experienced professional, or you own a business
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  and you want to implement through your staff, I've justin hit with Inside Strategic
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  Relations very often. Again, knowing you have a problem is useful. Knowing
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  why you have a problem is helpful, But implementing reasonable and measured solutions is
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  priceless. If you have a challenge you want to solve, if you want
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  to move into a new position or new opportunity within your career path or within
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