Proactive Disruption: A Trojan Horse
In Stage 4 of Professional Influence, we state, “An ambitious professional in this stage needs both incremental change and total proactive reinvention.”
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eCoaching
Don’t forget to demonstrate your general knowledge
When we transact, we demonstrate many things to others.
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Don’t be all things to all people
When you try to be everything to everyone, you become nothing to no one. This is true for individuals and companies.
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Trading Value vs. Trading Time
Some people or personalities have a linear relationship to earning a living. They see time spent and dollars earned as a simple equation.
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Ambitious Habits
The bestseller—Atomic Habits—claims that your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. We agree. But what habits get us closer to our professional goals? What ambitious habits help satisfy our loftiest aims?
Adult Vs Ambitious Adult
You are always transacting to satisfy your Conditions of Life. So is everyone else. The question is: do you transact powerfully?
Like it or not, we demonstrate our state of mind to others; we offer evidence that we are fit to transact (or not).
Our state of mind offers a clue to the narrative swimming in our heads. It might confirm that we have no pathway to our aims—or conversely, it might evidence that we are an Ambitious Adult fit for the offer we are making.
While Adults merely respond to offers, Ambitious Adults make them. What does it take to evidence the state of mind of an Ambitious Adult and prove our fitness?
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Long-Term Planning Is Crucial to Growth
All people go through the five Stages of Professional Influence.
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15 Unavoidable Conditions of Life
When students apply for our programs, we often see an imbalance in their lives—even in the most successful achievers.
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The Narratives of the Transaction Cycle
We think in story.
Humans use stories to organize their thinking and make sense of the world.
There are eight fundamental exchanges in all transactions, and each has a specific purpose represented by a narrative or story about that exchange.
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