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Samurai Strategies

A Free E-zine from Dr. Francine Gaillour

“If your soul is not projected into your hands, 

even ten thousand techniques will be useless.”   ----  Samurai Tesshu

Inspire, Influence, Achieve

• Inspire Your Team

• Why do Change Efforts Fail? 8 Reasons

• Leaders Transform Their Organization Using Emotional Intelligence

• Balance Intensity with Levity:  Polar Plunging and the Wisdom of Einstein

• Let the Power of Myth Inspire Your Professional Journey

• Want to be a leader?  Get Results!

• Effective Leadership Communication:  Take the Reflection Challenge

• Positive versus negative vision:  Which one is your leadership platform?

• To communicate effectively, use the "whole brain"

• Do you Embody the Four Strategies of a Proven Leader?

• Leaders Create Dialogue for Problem Solving

• Transformation, Courage and Leadership:  At the core is Free Will

• Leaders, Make Your Presence Known:  Don’t Be Boring  

• Principled Negotiation:  A Method for Win-Win 

• Writing for Clarity and Significance:  Keep it clean, Keep it short

• Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?

• Four Popular Myths About Leadership

• Speak Like a Superstar:  Hone Your Skills and Be Authentic

• Leadership and Transformation Require a Taste for Complexity 

• The Power of “And” 

• Professionalism:  TEN common courtesies that count  

• Use Empowering Language to Take Personal Responsibility for Your Situation and Your Choices 

• Knowing Yourself:  Your Key to Leadership

• Executive Leaders Use  Emotional Intelligence

• Using Intuition for Leadership Advantage

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Your Path . . . with Soul 

• Ask For What You Want

• Why Care About Values, Passion and Purpose?  Ask the Samurai   

• Professional Transition as a "Soul Journey"  

• Creating Work-Life Balance, Part II:  Eliminating Clutter

• Creating Work-Life Balance, Part I:  Establishing Boundaries

• Listen to Your Heart, Not Your Head, When Deciding Your Path

• Professional and Career Stability:  What does it mean to you?   

• Transition:  If it’s not scary, you’re not stretching enough!    

• What is My Unique Talent Anyway? An Exercise to Try

• Forty-one ideas for what you can do as a business consultant

• What is Your Value-Add as a Business Consultant?

• Career Transition: Be a Solution to a Business Problem 

• Want to Change Careers? Take Time to “I  A M”

• Thinking of Making a Career Transition?  What's Your Value Proposition to a New Employer?

• Professional Transition: Consider the Three Dimensions of Career Fulfillment

• Write Your Way to a New Career  

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Business Basics

• Business Planning Basics:  Don't Forget Your Market!

• Entrepreneurs, What's Your Elevator Pitch?

• The Business Plan Executive Summary:  Keep is Simple

• Business Planning:  Track Your Assumptions

• The Thumbnail Business Plan  

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