State of Mind Coaching & Training

Welcome back to Friday Shout Out. On Fridays, I highlight some of the Web and Social Media Messages I enjoyed giving a hoot about. Whether I retweeted them or wrote them into a blog post, you can now follow those I re-sourced, re-purposed, and referenced.

First, from this site.

Seems I was all over the board this week.  Starting with the gossip site Snap Crackle Pop.  Didn’t think I’d be referencing a site like that.  But, oh well.  It fit the onomatopoeia thing, if just for the name.  But the Spinsucks.com’s article about the rise of the Kellogg’s brand is fascinating.  Very relevant to our current era in economics.

One of these days I’m going to write the nemesis of my post on adjectives called, The Dark Side of Adjectives, but until I do, I’ll have to settle for others’.  Others such as lovehateadvertising.wordpress.com’s, standup8times.com’s, and ventureblog.com’s posts on adjectives are good, helpful and insightful, but don’t quite get at what I’m trying to get at. 

Darren Rowse’s & 7 Links post was awesome!  Check out all the comments on his and all the 7 links posts this inspired.  Incredible!  That’s influence.

Seth Godin made it into my posts this week not once, but twice.  No, I’m not in love with him.  He just happened to hit the spot is all.  He’s a pretty smart guy, if you haven’t noticed.  I really liked how he talked around the issue of under promise over deliver in the first one.  It was crafty and is a refreshing way to present a timeless principle. 

Now, Chris Brogan.  I don’t think this is the first time I have posted about Chris Brogan.  His post directly inspired my Loss Leaders post.  And, was the inspiration to revisit the under promise over deliver post of Seth’s.  I like it when someone can help me create a bridge between two never-before-combined seemingly totally unrelated concepts (boy, I’m giving myself a lot of credit here, I know.) 

Sometimes I have to stretch to fit, or at least reword sentences, in order to shout out two excellent resources in one sentence.  I couldn’t not, though.  Paradelle.wordpress.com combined mirror neurons and synesthesia for the first time for me.  And science20.com was an excellent authority on the topic and had these added resources.  

Now, on to my Google Reader Shared Items.

What’s in a Job Title? – The Psychology Behind Proper Job Titles by Integrity HR Human Resources Blog.  Language Hacker Award Recipient Robert Cialdini’s authority principle of persuasion was highlighted.  It was a nice refresher for me.

Staying cool when stealing cars from Mind Hacks by vaughan really caught my attention by surprise.  At first I was like, “who cares about the mind of a criminal,” but then I was like, “what application could I gleen from it and utilize?”  Turns out there is something valuable.  State control.  Mental state control to be more specific.  I’ll probably expand more in a future post, so read this first.

Here’s a no-brainer that apparently is.  Reverse Mentoring the Social Organization from Gautam Ghosh on Human Resources by Gautam Ghosh.  Based on a Forbes article by Rawn Shah Why You Must Network With Your Younger Employees.  Read it in order to find out why.

Like I always say, “Find what works and use it.”

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Quotes that haven’t been repeated enough.

The successful use of metaphor is a matter of perceiving similarities.  -Aristotle, Poetics (4th Century B.C.)

Out of context quote remix:

“…the demand for buffets have become even greater… The quality of food at buffets today is every bit as good, if not better, than most midlevel casual restaurants… [buffets are] not the loss leader they used to be.  -Jeff DiVito

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