This blog will address the challenges we face today in many aspects of our lives - how we have been influenced, where we have influence, where we do not have influence, and where we seek to have influence.
Sometimes, we don't even realize how we are influenced by our surroundings, by our past, by our culture, our families, by our belief systems. And sometimes we don't even realize how we are influencing others - in positive and in negative ways.
Our goal is to help open conversations about what influence is: how it affects people, how it is used, and how everyone, in turn, can influence others in a positive way. This empowers people to be successful in many aspects of life - through many interactions with others - even those with whom one might disagree!
We'll focus on special areas of Intelligent Influence - such as the impact and meaning it has in the world of business and management. In this area, much is in flux, given the economy's challenges:
- How are managers and employees coping with the "new normal"?
- How are leaders dealing with employee disenchantment and, in many cases, disenfranchisement?
- How can the best and brightest be retained and "nourished"?
- How are new leaders identified?
- How can each employee reach his or her potential?
- How do organizations become more profitable through positive "influence"?
We encourage feedback from you - we'd like to be influenced by your ideas, also! And we'd like to know how we are influencing conversations you may be having - internally or externally - outside this blog. Thanks very much for visiting us and reading what we have to say. We look forward to the conversation.
