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Feb 22

How can YOU change someone’s life for the better?

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Business, Marketing, Personal, Story on 02 22nd, 2010 | Comments
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Have you ever tried to change someone else’s mind?  Talked and pleaded with them to see a different point of view but in the end failed to get through?  There is an old adage that says we have to look at how hard it is to change our own mind before we try to change someone else.  I think that’s true and a good place to start. We see the world in expectations of what is to come.  We expect to have certain real-world outcomes with everything we come in contact, also called experiences.  These “expected experiences” or expectations, are how we plan the world to...
Jan 10

Do You Know Why Stories are Important?

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing, Story, Storytellinng on 01 10th, 2010 | Comments
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We tell stories because they are about conflict. One man against nature, or another man (including himself), or against man’s own creations (machines). The good ones always show something to watch out for;  something that might diminish your resources. Because humans have learned how useful stories can be, we inherently pay attention to them. We want to know when the conflict is coming, where the dangers lie. We simulate them in our heads, putting ourselves in place of the main character, all so that we can truly see what’s coming on the horizon. Stories are about a...
Jan 5

Spam to the world, the Adverts have come!

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, CommunityRenewal, Marketing on 01 5th, 2010 | Comments
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I recently attended a holiday event with my family, a 2+ mile drive through professionally constructed Christmas lights in Spanaway WA; nice enough for what it was, but it was the advertising that got to me. Littered throughout the drive were large banner signs for local companies. They were sponsorships the event has sold based on the promise that thousands of people will see the signs and remember the displayed brand at some point in the future, PROBABLY resulting in a sale. It’s the modern form of snake oil… Honestly, is anyone more likely to buy a newspaper or go to a...
Nov 6

Imagining The Soul of A Business

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing on 11 6th, 2009 | Comments
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From Availing Wisdom, July 28, 2009 The soul, or pneuma, of a business is shown in its DNA, the very code that gives it life. A company is very much like a belief system offering values, community, relevance, leadership and vision, empathy, and trust to the body of customers (see believers) that buy (see follow) its product(s) (see values). People are looking for companies and brands that they can believe in, belong to, and that spark the right emotions that connect them to something greater than themselves. On the other side, Companies run and survive on connections, on interactions with...
Oct 27

The Business of Making Connections

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing on 10 27th, 2009 | Comments
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Written 7/22/09 from Availing Wisdom *The Names of the Following have been changed to protect the innocent… but mostly the guilty* It occurred to me the other day as I was merrily strolling to work that if we view the company as a person, as a real entity, then something must give it life.  Almost as if God were sending me an object lesson, my next stop showed me exactly what I needed to know. On a whim I decided to stop in at a local industrial firm that happens to be on my way to work.  We’ll call them ABC Electric.  I have always been curious as to what they actually do since the...
Oct 19

How your values may be all wrong…

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing on 10 19th, 2009 | Comments
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… and you would never know! Because once you found your personal values and you can successfully tell a few stories about each one, then what do you do with them?  How can you use them to guide and determine your steps deliberately? That is exactly what we’ll be going over this week. I am also looking for thoughts and ideas on applying values to work, business, and life.  Did the steps I laid out last week work for you?  What do you think would be the best way to apply those values?  Do you even think values are important? ...
Oct 16

Weekend Insights #2

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing on 10 16th, 2009 | Comments
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The end of week two and we are on a roll.  We discussed some very useful ways to find your personal values, steps you can take to discover how you can consistently and reliably make decisions.  Next week we will talk about how to translate those personal steps into business success. Insights from this week: 1. Your values will drive your personal and business success. 2. Translating the power of giving to your organization. 3. Some easy steps to find your personal values. Some Interesting Thoughts and Sites: 1. A great article from Andrea Patrick about building rapport with your clients. 2....
Oct 14

Finding the Values That Will Change Your Life

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing on 10 14th, 2009 | Comments
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Values determine whether you succeed or fail, what will yours be? Both individually and as an organization, values drive the decisions we make every day and shape how we deal with whatever comes our way. You will achieve the greatest successes when you partner with a person or organization that has the same values as you. The choice we have is whether we actively create our values, recognizing them for what they are, or passively allow them to motivate us.  The difference is that knowing your values and actively following them makes you both consistent and credible, two major components of...
Oct 13

The Power of Giving

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, CommunityRenewal, Marketing on 10 13th, 2009 | Comments
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Short Post today, working on a longer one for tomorrow. I found a great book on www.chrisbrogan.com called The Power of Giving that basically talks about the main themes I try to espouse here. Giving to others will enrich you in more ways than you know and this book goes into detail about how that works. Look at it and tell me what you think. Tomorrow we can talk about how exactly to find your values as a company and start consciously living those out everyday! ...
Oct 12

How do your values drive the organization?

Posted by jehoshuakilen in Branding, Business, Marketing on 10 12th, 2009 | Comments
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How will you interact with people? One of the first steps to building a quality organization is determining what your organizational values will be.  Values are the code a person lives by, the ideas and concepts that they use, consciously or unconsciously, to make every decision.  Your company is no different. Whether or not you actively craft these values, they will exist regardless.  You will either make them happen or your every decision will bring them about automatically.  The choice is yours to either take control of your life or let up to chance. Enlivent is an example.  Our main...

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