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Turning Experts
into Thought Leaders
thoughtnotes
September 21, 2004
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In this issue:
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thoughts you should know… only in America
-
thought leader university… marketplace mastery
-
thoughts and actions… business development coaching
-
thought leader spotlights… kudos to our thought leaders for their recent victories
thoughts
you should know...
...only
in America
1.
Only in America...
can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2.
Only in America...
are there handicap parking spaces in front of
a skating rink.
3.
Only in America...
do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to
the back of the store to get their prescriptions
while healthy people can buy
cigarettes at the front.
4.
Only in America...
do we order double cheeseburgers, large fries,
and a Diet Coke.
5.
Only in America...
do banks leave both doors to the vault open and
then chain the pens to the counters.
6.
Only in America...
do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7.
Only in America...
do we use answering machines to screen calls and
then have call waiting so we won't miss a call
from someone we didn't want to
talk to in the first place.
8.
Only in America...
do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns
in packages of eight.
9.
Only in America......
do we use the word "politics" to describe
the process so well: "poli" in Latin
meaning "many" and "tics"
meaning "bloodsucking
creatures."
10.
Only in America...
do we have drive-up ATM machines with Braille
lettering.
thought leader university...
...marketplace
mastery
Check out this new book:
Marketplace
Masters: How Professional Service Firms Compete
to Win
By Suzanne C. Lowe
In today's knowledge-based economy, service professionals face a dazzling array of opportunities and challenges. To compete effectively, a disciplined approach is needed to detect market shifts, harness competitive advantages, and develop service offerings that attract profitable clients.
Drawing from a five-year study covering thousands of firms, Suzanne Lowe presents the three building blocks of a market-driven infrastructure: looking out, digging deeper, embedding innovation. Her book also identifies eleven core skills that service firms can apply to "master" their marketplace and achieve lasting competitive success.
To
learn more about this important new book, click:
http://www.expertisemarketing.com/book.html
thoughts
and actions...
...business
development coaching
Struggling with business development? Need help sorting out your strategic direction, marketing plan, daily priorities? Could your selling techniques stand a thorough review? We now offer business development coaching to assist thought leaders just like YOU(!) in such areas as productivity, marketing, communications, client effectiveness, time management and more. For details, email us at or call 978-371-0442.
thought
leader spotlight...
...kudos
to our thought leaders for their recent victories
Congratulations to the following thought leaders and their recent media triumphs:
- Bob McGowan, Senior Principal at Mitretek Healthcare, has been invited to speak to the Hospital Association of New York Staff on the topic of how hospital leaderships can listen effectively to their physicians
- Successfully navigating college admissions and major changes in college admissions in the last 20 years was addressed by Steve Pemberton and Chuck Hughes, Co-Founders of Road to College, on WBIX 1060AM
- "Successful Leaders: Understanding Sincere Failure" by Michael Shenkman Ph.D., Founder and President of the Arch of Leadership (Albuquerque New Mexico), posted on The Sideroad. This article is adapted from Michael's upcoming book "The Arch and the Path: the Life of Leading Greatly" (Sandia Heights Media 2004)
- "Are You Getting Good Advice?" by Dan Cassidy, President of Argus Consulting Ltd, in Benefits and Pensions Monitor
- "Strategic Planning Is A Must-Make It A Habit" by Mary Adams, Co-Founder of Trek Consulting LLC, In IndUS Business Journal
- "Use it or Lose It-the Rule to Watch in Trademark Law" by Michael Albert, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, in US Industry Today
- "Court To Clarify Patent-Claim Interpretation" by Michael N. Rader, Associate at Wolf, Greenfield, in Mass High Tech
- "The Five Top Objections To Open-Source" by Vin D'Amico, President of Damicon LLC, in Computerworld Online
- Finance Canada.Com, The Democrat and Chronicle and Patent Café interviewed Steve Henry, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, on the topic of growing software lawsuits reinforce the need for patenting products and why patents attract investors, provide corporate shield and can be viewed as bargaining chips
- "Court Rulings Make It Time to Examine Marriage Policies" by Joan Curtice, an independent human resources consultant specializing in legal compliance in HR administration and harassment prevention, in IndUS Business Journal
- "A Few Pointers For Drafting A Disaster-Response System" by Vin D'Amico, President of Damicon LLC, in Boston Business Journal
- "Customer Insight Conduits—Gaining Critical Insight To Grow Your Business" by Curtis Bingham, President of The Predictive Consulting Group, in The CEO Refresher
- "Marine-Product Manufacturer TSX Seeks Distributors, OEMs for Fog-Warning Device FogMate ™ — Sounds Boat Horn in Right Sequence for Fog and Distress Warning," about an invention from Intertech Engineering Associates, was distributed over Business Wire and picked up by multiple Web news sites
- Nexcerpt (Canada's Premiere Legal Publication) interviewed Jim Foster, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, on the growth of IP litigation worldwide
- Boston Business Journal interviewed Liza Vertinsky, Associate at Wolf Greenfield, on pro bono work on intellectual property matters
- Boston Business Journal interviewed Steve Henry, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, on the topic of university-company licensing deals
- Patent Café and Corporate Legal Times interviewed Michael A. Albert, Shareholder at Wolf Greenfield, on the topic of trademark-law issues illustrated in his recent Kent International case
- "Don't Throw Out Cash and Let Software Become Shelfware" by Vin D'Amico, President of Damicon LLC, in IndUS Business Journal, in his monthly column "Virtual Business
To receive a complimentary copy of any of these articles, visit the author's web site or reply to this email. For direct links to our thought leaders' websites, click: http://www.thoughtleading.com/clients.htm
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