Dr. Dalton Conley: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety

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Dr. Dalton Conley, sociologist and author of Elsewhere, USA, examines, “How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners and the Age of Affluence to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms and Economic Anxiety.” Today’s professional is constantly dogged by a feeling that he/she should be “elsewhere,” whether back at the office, at a party full of potential clients, home with the kids or at social function with the spouse. Always on the go, people feel like they are in the right place at the right time only when in transit, moving from point A to B. Dalton shares how we can redirect our economic incentives, reverse our negative savings trend and invest for a better future.

For more from Dr. Conley, listen to the entire show.

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Dr. Robert Cialdini on Proven Ways to Be Persuasive for Greater Success

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Robert CialdiniOn March 2, 2010, Dr. Robert Cialdini, New York Times bestselling author of Influence: Science and Practice and Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive, joined Ken and Sheryl Dawson on the Total Career Success VoiceAmerica Internet radio show to share six fundamental principles of influence based on years of research:

  • Reciprocity – Give to receive;
  • Scarcity – Position the product or service as unique and therefore in short supply;
  • Authority – Be the expert;
  • Consistency – Be consistent with the values/goals of the person to be influenced;
  • Consensus – Demonstrate agreement as through references;
  • Liking – Identify similarities with the person to be persuaded.

These approaches can dramatically improve the ability to influence people in all walks of life.

For more insights from Dr. Robert Cialdini, listen to the entire show below, or visit Dr. Cialdini’s website at https://www.influenceatwork.com/.

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Roadmap for Success: 7 Steps to Effective Change

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With all the uncertainty and anxiety that pervade our thoughts and discussions about the economy, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the gloom-and-doom mentality and feel completely helpless. While layoffs and losses can erode confidence, to overcome and succeed we must not let them! We encourage everyone to put the past in the past and focus on the future. Dr. David Krueger, author of Roadmap for a New Wellness Story, shared with us how a systematic approach to change can empower us to achieve career and life goals.

Dave Krueger, M.D., is an Executive Mentor Coach and currently serves as the CEO of MentorPath (www.mentorpath.com), an executive coaching, wellness, and publishing firm in Houston, Texas. He helps executive clients “write the next chapter of their business stories” by combining elements of psychology, neuroscience, and professional coaching into a comprehensive method for effecting change and achieving goals. Dr. Krueger is the author of over fifteen professional and trade books on self-development, wellness, and success, and he frequently gives keynote addresses nationally and internationally. His strategies look at success as both an art and a science, and in his coaching and writing he focuses on the principle of “mind over matter.” In the past Dr. Krueger has served as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, and has practiced and taught both psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He has been listed among America’s Top Psychiatrists, and from 1996 until his retirement from practicing clinical psychiatry in 2002, he was listed in The Best Doctors in America. Additionally, he has founded and served as CEO for two healthcare corporations, and co-founded a third startup that began as a venture capital endeavor and eventually became a merger/acquisition.
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