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Gary Patton

What is Canadian conservatism? - Brian Lilley's Pad - 0 views

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    ""Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. ... "The attitude we call conservatism is sustained by a body of sentiments, rather than by a system of ideological dogmata."~ RusseLL Kirk in his 1993 essay "Ten Conservative Principles analysed by Brian Lilley in this short OpEd.
Gary Patton

Master Facebook's Timeline - 0 views

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google+ Timeline coaching tips

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  • Gary Patton on 06 Jan 12
     
    Recommended by Mari Smith, this is a handy guide to Timeline by Ian Paul of PCWorld via an Editor's Note. gfp(20120105)
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Know Your Rights! - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 03 Jan 12
     
    By Hanni Fakhoury, Electronic Frontier Foundation Staff Attorney, June 2011 is a helpful article that outlines one's electronic rights when it comes to government's rights to view cell, computer & other digital data based on U.S. Law. gfp data
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How Timeline Radically Changes Your Facebook Marketing Strategy - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 01 Jan 12
     
    This is an excellent article on a strategy for using Facebook Timeline in your HBB or small business.
Gary Patton

Why You Really Shouldn't Curse - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 28 Dec 11
     
    Anne Kreamer shares some helpful and interesting links in her article.
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Gary Patton's Profile - People Development Specialist - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 27 Dec 11
     
    DoYouBuzz is offering a FREE Online Resume that must take second place to a VisualCV one in your quiver of career tools but you can one together VERY quickly. Mine took about fifteen minutes. Have fun building yours to supplement the paper one you're working on. Please let me know how I can help?
Gary Patton

The Must-Have Leadership Skill - Daniel Goleman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 27 Dec 11
     
    Daniel Goleman has changed his title for inter-personal competencies from "emotional intelligence" to "social intelligence" ...a better descriptor of the skill-set involved.!
Gary Patton

The latest LinkedIn Statistics - 0 views

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Linked-in stats

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  • Gary Patton on 22 Dec 11
     
    As of June 30, 2011, these are "the data" regarding L-I's spread worlwide "straight from the horses mouth"!
Gary Patton

How to Get a Raise When Budgets Are Tight - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • The formula is based on one simple premise: We can get more money when we demonstrate that we've added more value. And we can add more value when we spend the majority of our time focusing on the work that the most senior leaders in the organization consider valuable. That is almost always work that increases revenue or profits, either short-term or long-term.
  • Make sure that the majority of your effort moves the organization further in those areas.
  • stay on the same page about what's important and how it's impacting the organization.
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  • quantify the impact you're making
  • f your manager starts asking you to do things outside the top two or three things, push back and have a conversation about it
  • After about six months of this laser focus, you're ready to have another conversation with your manager to identify the impact you've had and prove that you've added tremendous value on the things that matter most.
  • That's good timing since most organizations are beginning to think through their departmental budgets and promotions around the six-month mark.
  • It's not a trick. It's in everyone's best interests.
  • even if it requires that you push back
  • ultimately you'll be more productive, your manager will be more productive, and the organization will be more productive.
  • That's money in the bank. It will make your job more secure and you more promotable.
  • During this year's compensation conversation, take whatever is given to you without negotiation.
  • There are always some things that are more important to do than other things. The problem is that most of us aren't clear about what those are,
  • Minimizing that noise is our opportunity
  • There's no question that we're all busier than ever before, but we often are not getting the most important things done.
  • The idea of immediate results is alluring.
  • It's the temptation of the lottery.
  • instant results are almost always unattainable.
  • It's not that I think people can't get raises right now. It's that if you haven't spent the last year laying the groundwork, it's highly unlikely that you'll be successful.
  • How to Get a Raise When Budgets Are Tight
  • Gary Patton on 14 Dec 11
     
    Peter's article contains a key phrase I have highlighted. I've added how it applies to work experience statements.
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Be Careful How You Share the Gospel - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 14 Dec 11
     
    Galatians 1:9 confirms clearly that anyone who shares a Gospel, purporting to be Jesus', that is "off-the- mark" is cursed!
Gary Patton

James 3:1 NASB - The Tongue Is a Fire - Let not many of - Bible Gateway - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 13 Dec 11
     
    All Jesus Followers responsibility before God as sharers/communicators/coaches/teachers is clearly stated in James 3:1 . When our sharing/communicating/teaching involves The Gospel, error actually incurs a curse according to Galatians 1:9 at Therefore, each Jesus Following communicator/coach/teacher must take responsibility for the information we transmit to ensure its integrity. More importantly, we are wise to be actively sceptical about the information we receive ...especially over the Internet where it's so easy to defraud and be defrauded. We ought to do the best we know how to check the facts, investigate the evidence, and evaluate all research for ourselves. Finally, we honour Jesus better when we regularly re-recommit to being rigorous, lifelong learners ourselves ...for it is only with knowledge that we can wisely & prayerfully evaluate the claims that we encounter.
Gary Patton

Effective PowerPoint Design | Presentation Advisors - 0 views

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business presentation coaching tips

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  • “If you can import a picture, you can create an effective PowerPoint.”
  • While there are hundreds of different PowerPoint techniques to learn, there are only a handful you need to know if you want to start creating visually appealing presentations.
  • there is a diminishing rate of return. It’s called the long-tail.
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  • A similar concept you may be familiar with is the 80/20 rule (technically the Pareto principle)
  • Since vision trumps all other senses, the rate of return on importing a picture is high.
  • Gary Patton on 13 Dec 11
     
    You are without excuse! You can be a powerful presenter! Those of you who use PowerPoint slides, (And who doesn't?), will find this article helpful because if you can import a picture, you can create an effective PowerPoint presentation.
Gary Patton

Four Paradoxes of Great Performance : The 99 Percent - 0 views

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virtues antinomy

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  • the paradoxical key to great performance – and leadership – is the capacity to embrace opposites.
  • Even the noblest virtues, standing alone, have their limits.
  • Honesty in the absence of compassion becomes cruelty.  Tenacity unmediated by flexibility congeals into rigidity.  Courage without prudence is recklessness.
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  • 1. The Physical.
  • human beings operate best when we pulse between spending and renewing energy.
  • In our rush to get things done, it doesn't occur to most of us that intermittently renewing and refueling energy prevents us from relentlessly burning down our energy
  • The Emotional
  • most of us embrace the notion that confidence lies at the heart of success. Vulnerability and uncertainty are seen as signs of weakness. 
  • it feels dangerous to acknowledge our limitations and difficult to admit we don't know the answer, much less that we got something wrong.
  • Humility comes from the Latin word "humilitas" which translates as grounded, or from the earth.
  • The Mental
  • we've long worshipped at the altar of scientific method and observable facts and admired rigorous, analytic left-hemisphere thinking.
  • we've paid precious little attention to cultivating the more subjective, imaginative, and integrative capacities of the right hemisphere of our brain, which is visual rather than verbal, and capable of big intuitive leaps and creative breakthroughs. 
  • The ability to embrace both of these ways of thinking – to recognize that each is essential but neither is sufficient by itself – lies at the heart of whole brain thinking.
  • When we talk about spiritual energy, we mean the energy derived from serving a purpose larger than yourself.
  • far too few leaders in companies recognize the galvanizing impact of creating a shared and compelling sense of purpose
  • By contrast, we've found that people in professions such as health care, education, social work, and the military often run almost solely off spiritual energy.
  • Self-care is a prerequisite to being most effective on behalf of others.
  • Gary Patton on 08 Dec 11
     
    The paradoxical key to great performance - and leadership - is the capacity to embrace opposites. Even the noblest virtues, standing alone, have their limits: * Honesty in the absence of compassion becomes cruelty. * Tenacity not mediated by flexibility congeals into rigidity. * Courage without prudence is recklessness.
Gary Patton

5 Ways Your Old YouTube Videos Can Triple Their Visibility | Social Media Examiner - 0 views

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    This is an outstanding video with full supporting text done in an engaging cartoon style via white-board. It proves its point.
Gary Patton

Video re Similarities between Nazi & Islamist Propaganda- YouTube - 0 views

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    Beware: The video from Palestinian TV libelously depicting Jews using human blood to make matzo is VERY graphic and disturbing. gfp (2011-11-09)
Gary Patton

The Origins of the Fed - Ron Paul - Mises Daily - 0 views

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  • The Federal Reserve cartelizes the banking industry, allowing individual banks to inflate together, earning them and the government enormous profits, while making sure that they are never held accountable for their fraudulent practices.
  • early 1900s — during the so-called Progressive Era — the US government began a radical program of intervention into the economy.
  • a precursor of socialism and fascism
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  • conferred special privileges on favored firms, insulating them from the competition of the free market
  • This illegitimate and unconstitutional process happened time and time again
  • era when the US free market received a beating
  • in a system of government intervention, industries are no longer accountable to the needs of the people.
  • the years of many evils: the income tax, "making the world safe for democracy" through World War I, centralization through direct election of senators, the imperial presidency, Prohibition, and the Federal Reserve System
  • Academics, as is still the case, provided intellectual cover for these crimes
  • The central-banking movement began to grow a year before the Panic of 1907 in New York.
  • Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
     
    The Federal Reserve cartelizes the banking industry, allowing individual banks to inflate together, earning them and the government enormous profits, while making sure that they are never held accountable for their fraudulent practices.
Gary Patton

"Thinkers Anonymous" Renesch.Com | FutureShapers Monthly Newsletter Archives - 0 views

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business freedom addiction

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  • little is said about the one of the biggest addictions for the Western world - compulsive thinking.
  • addiction is a habit that we cannot easily break through willpower, is something we do compulsively and is harmful to us, or to people around us
  • it is a habit that is difficult to stop does harm.
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  • Anne Lamott quote: "My mind is like a bad neighborhood, I try not to go there alone."
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      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      The Apostle Paul agrees with Ms. Lamott, (1954- ) U.S. author. He suggests that we allow Holy Spirit to control that dangerous neighbourhood in Galatians 5:16-17 &25 as well as 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 . gfp
  • Thinking becomes harmful when it takes total control of our behavior - so we can't freely choose but feel compelled to act. In other words, conscious choice is absent.
  • We have assigned our minds an aristocratic nobility so that our thinking often reigns supreme over our feelings and intuitions, which are often denied in the process.
  • Mystics and spiritual teachers tell us about the trap that our egoic minds represent, and how our egoic thinking prevents us from having "the relationship of all relationships" that so many people yearn for.
  • many if not most of people's problems stem from egoic thinking which leads to worry, anxiety, depression and fear.
  • We are the most sedated society in the world
  • Surrender to a Higher Power - "a power greater than ourselves" - was the answer created by the founders of A.A. along with a supportive community of fellow alcoholics who knew what it was like - who could identify with the hopelessness, fear, and powerlessness that went with the addiction.
  • So how do we stop thinking? We can't stop all thinking but we'd be far healthier if we could end the compulsiveness and only engage with generative thinking - thinking that creates, explains, challenges and contributes to wisdom and understanding. Compulsiveness is the problem, not thinking itself.
  • Einstein told us decades ago that we'd never solve our problems with the same consciousness that created them. The same thinking that made the messes cannot get us out of them. We have evolved to such a degree that we must surrender to a power greater than our egoic minds if we are to transcend the conditions we find undesirable - personally, organizationally and societally.
  • mystic Robert Rabbin says, "we must live in the heart, not in the thinking mind."
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      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Mr. Rabbin, a U.S. author & speaker, has a flagship program, "The 5 Principles of Authentic Living. He calls these his "Authenticity Accelerator". The priciples are powerfull. I agree and teach these five, key relationship approaches as well: 1 Be Present 2 Pay Attention 3 Listen Deeply 4 Speak Truthfully 5 Act Creatively at http://www.authenticityaccelerator.com I disagree with Mr. Rensch, however, that Mr. Rabbin's work entitles him to the title given to the great mystics of the Middle Ages, like Catholic Priest John of the Cross and his mentor, the Catholic Nun, Teresa of Avalon! gfp
  • Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
     
    Mr. Renesch shares and interesting definition of 'addiction' and proposes an uncommon one most would not normally consider an addiction. His thesis makes sense. gfp (2011-11-17)
Gary Patton

The Art of Asking Questions - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • But asking questions effectively is a major underlying part of a manager's job
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      Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
       
      I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! It "blows my mind" that theis powerful relationship communication skill is not taught at school. But then, some argue, that John Dewey, one of the Founders of the Humanist Society and principal author of the "Humanist Manifesto"
  • three areas where improved "questioning" can strengthen managerial effectiveness
  • Good managers therefore are always asking themselves and others about what they could do better or differently.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
       
      Both getting and giving good feedback is another major life-skill challenge for many of us. Ask me for my S-M-A-R-TBriefing™ on each of these life-skills because ... "All feedback you get or, better, can encourage, is helpful and able to assist you irrespective of it being complimentary, contrarian or contentious!"~ gfp '42™
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  • Many managers don't know how to probe the thought process of their subordinates, colleagues, and bosses — and instead make assumptions about the basis of their actions. And when those assumptions are wrong, all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can be created.
  • probing needs to be in the spirit of accelerating progress, illuminating unconscious assumptions and solving problems
  • many of the best managers I've seen have an uncanny ability to engage in Socratic dialogue that helps people reach their own conclusions about what can be done to improve a plan or project, which of course leads to much more ownership and learning.
  • Asking these questions in a way that does not trigger defensiveness and that is seen as constructive is an important skill for managers.
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Few of us are effective questioners. And being good at the skill of asking questions effectively is not just a major underlying part of a manager's job as is the focus in this excellent article. I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! A major life challenge of many of us is that we don't know how to probe the thought process of our bosses, colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially our partners and other relatives. Instead we make ill-informed and unwise assumptions about the basis of their actions and behaviours. And when those assumptions are wrong ...as they usually are..., all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can result. gfp (2011-11-23)
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Discover in this article why what you weren't taught in school can be a major draw-back in your career and life!
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How To Solve Difficult Problems - 0 views

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  • Remember when you were staring at the ceiling in elementary school, and the teacher asked you whether the answer was on the ceiling? Maybe it was.
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      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      You guys NEVER ever did that ...right? gfp (2011-10-04)
  • One potentially appropriate therapy for procrastination lies in teaching something akin to time management
  • it is desirable that not only that there should be an interval free from conscious thought on the particular problem concerned, but also that that interval should be so spent that nothing should interfere with the free working of the unconscious or partially unconscious processes of the mind. In those cases, the stage of incubation should include a large amount of actual mental relaxation"
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      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Might it not have been more understandable for his readers for this academic to have simply said: "When you have a really difficult problem ...go to sleep!" Or: "Take a shower!" The latter usually works best for me. And to enhance the former, I keep a pad & pen on my bed-side table so I can jot down a quickie reminder, without really waking up, because I seldom can rember my brialliant idea in the morning? What do you do? gfp (2011-10-04)
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  • Helmholz described how new thoughts came to him: After previous investigation, "in all directions," .. " happy ideas come unexpectedly without effort, like an inspiration ... they have never come to me when my mind was fatigued, or when I was at my working table ... They came particularly readily during the slow ascent of wooded hills on a sunny day" (p. 91).
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Athiestic scientists describe the event this way! Some call it 'serindipity' to similarily disguise the real source! I more accurately and unasamably call it what it is: GOD! gfp (2011-10-04)
  • Einstein would "allow the subconscious to solve particularly tricky problems
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Apropos my note above re 'serendipity', and contrary to common myth, Einstein was at best a diest late in life but not a Christian, according to those who knew him well. gfp (2011-10-04)
  • They engage in the "preliminary period of conscious work which also precedes all fruitful unconscious labor" (Poincare, 1924).
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Don't you just love academic writing? gfp (2011-10-04)
  • Of course, the "illumination" that is the result of incubation needs to be followed by more conscious work. Ideas that arise as a result of incubation need to be evaluated (Smith, 1994);
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      Really? Duh!! gfp
  • Incubation sometimes requires a very long break:
  • can also occur with breaks of shorter duration.
  • it can also happen in very short breaks, a few minutes or even moments.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      God seldom works the same way ...every time! gfp
  • I have found that these breaks work best when they are devoted to something fairly mindless: washing just a few dishes, filing just a few papers, or doing some light exercise.
  • In fact, high achievers may actually take more time.
  • perhaps some of the "non-stop" working was staring at the ceiling. If high achievers appear to accomplish tasks more quickly than others, I suspect it is only because they put in so much more time.1
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
       
      "Type "A' Personalities", please take note! (This is a note to myself!! :-) ) gfp
  • Gary Patton on 06 Dec 11
     
    In this helpful, short article the author outlines, simply, how to unleash your creativity best by using the simple process of incubation. gfp (2011-10-04)
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