Jack D. Deal Free and Inquiring Mind: Thought and Behavior

It's just the Republican Health Care Plan is Top Secret, John

"As a matter of fact, only Republicans have offered solutions to lower health-care costs and make it easier to obtain quality, affordable coverage without imposing a massive burden on the American people," House Minority Leader John  Boehner

Even Bill Clinton couldn't save Golden Boy Gavin...

(Not to mention no public support.)

"It is with great regret I announce today that I am withdrawing from the race for governor of California, With a young family and responsibilities at city hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort the way it needs to – and should be – done." - Gavin Newsom

Earlier this month, former President Bill Clinton had endorsed Newsom, running against California Attorney General Jerry Brown. Brown and Clinton were themse

interesting comment on California from youtube.com/jackddeal

So Much Stuff; So Little Space:

California Close-up: From WalMart to the Homeboy to the Landfill.....Until the Chinese and the Mexican armies roll in to "restore social order" in about 2025......Just kidding......or am I? Our presidente then will likely be a compromised Latina.....She will be a Trojan Horse......She will return Aztlan to its former owners.....y por eso los Anglo-Sajones seran perdidos...... payasos.....You can thank the Hollywood Liberal for this.....

thought and behavior modification

1) perceive 2) develop awareness 3) internalize conceptually and 4) adapt thought and behaviors 5) repeat forever

stimulus response; thoughts behaviors; cause effects; and the response stimulus feedback loop

stimulus or cause creates response or effects...thoughts create and modify behaviors...sophisticated behaviors send feedback for 'thought' reviews...the stimulus response becomes response stimulus and behaviors are shaped...

"So, just don't do it..."

The immediate problem being you give away competitive advantage but who says charity is such a bad thing?  You either don't do it, attempt to do it yourself, hire someone to do it for you or find a way to learn how to think and behave your way into getting your desired results.  

What is Fed Chairman Bernanke's Aide Linda Robertson's salary?

And did she get paid more working as a lobbyist for Enron or as a lobbyist for the Federal Reserve?  

Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke and his "K Street Whores"

"She actually questioned his understanding of the difference between fiscal and monetary policy. She had the audacity to attack a congressman who used to be an economist.  She's a career lobbyist who used to work for Enron and advocates for whatever she gets paid to promote." --Rep. Alan Grayson's spokesman Todd Jurkowski on Bernanke aide Linda Robertson and why Congressman Grayson called her a whore.  

We can't get there from here you moron...

Because if we got there, the "here" would change and we don't really want to change anything... --JD Deal

Awards and honors aren't really so...

"Awards are merely badges for mediocrity." --Charles Ives

Does Management Consulting only find what it knows to find?

It's tempting and easy to find canned answers in a complex and irrational world.   In the rapidly changing business world, tried and true best management consulting practices often simply don't work. 

Help find this missing child...have you seen him? If so, contact your local police immediately...thanks!

Have you seen Pepito?  If so, please contact your local police immediately!

A través del Internet tratarán de dar con el paradero del niño maya

Sa­muel CHAN TUN

El ni­ño Jo­sé Fran­cis­co Gar­cía Mén­dez

FE­LI­PE CA­RRI­LLO PUER­TO, 24 de oc­tu­bre.- Des­pués de que la bús­que­da del ni­ño Jo­sé Fran­cis­co Gar­cía Mén­dez fue in­fruc­tuo­sa lue­go de más de 15 días por par­te de di­fe­ren­tes cor­po­ra­cio­nes po­li­cia­cas y del Ejér­ci­to, ac­tual­men­te se es­tá tra­tan­do de dar con el pa­ra­de­ro del pe­

Best practices, following the 'rules' and business success

It's not that you have to break the rules as much as it is not using them as your business model guideline.  --Jack D. Deal 

Chicago SES is the place to go to fill in your Search knowledge

great show, great info, great folks and highly recommended by JD Deal!

Chicago didn’t get the 2012 Olympics but don’t despair – the media has not forgotten the largest search marketing conference in the MidWest SES Chicago. The Dec. 7-11 conference is already drawing coverage from hundreds of online and print publications. Expect new sessions, speakers, and completely updated presentations, as you learn how to improve your business' website and its search engine rankings. And to top it off, Day 3 will feature keynote speaker Dan Siroker, former Deputy New Media Director, Obama Presidential Transition, who will discuss how he used Web analytics to help Barak Obama defeat John McCain!

Some pre-conference insights from SES 2008 Chicago Speakers:

Day 1 Keynote speaker and media futurist, Jeff Jarvis
Bryan Eisenberg will be presenting on 20 secrets of Top Converting Websites

Tim Ash will be presenting on Landing Page Optimization: The Seven Deadly Sins
Rand Fishkin will be presenting on the PPC or SEO? The Ultimate Search Marketing Battle
Grant Crowell will be one of the presenters on the The Oprah Winfrey Litigation: What Affiliate Marketers MUST Know

Register now to gain complete access to the Midwest's largest gathering of SEO/SEM professionals. You'll also receive unsurpassed SEO and SEM training that will separate you from your peers and competitors.

Still not convinced? Sign up for a FREE expo hall pass to access the Expo Hall and

 

Winston Churchill on Success...

Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. --Winston Churchill

If you want to reverse the trade imbalance with China, buy used stuff here!

go to thrift stores, flea markets, yard sales and buy good used stuff...that is the only way to slow down the container tankers from China...

Uncle Mike and Hot Tub Judy tell a joke but is the joke really on us?

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus
payment.  This is a very exciting program..  I'll explain it using the Q and A format:Image removed by sender.


Q.  What is an Economic Stimulus payment?

A..  It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers..


Q.  Where will the government get this money?
A.  From taxpayers.

Q.  So the government is giving me back my own money?
A.  Only a smidgen.

Q.  What is the purpose of this payment?
A.  The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q.  But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A.  Shut up.



Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:        

       

     •   If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China

.
     •   If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.


     •   If you purchase a computer, it will go to India .

   
     •   If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico ,  Honduras and Guatemala .
   

     •   If you buy a car, it will go to Japan or Korea .
  

     •   If  you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
  

     •   If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.



Instead, keep the money in America by:

1   spending it at yard sales, or     

2   going to ball games, or    

3   spending it on prostitutes, or     

4   beer or     

5   tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)

Conclusion:

 Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day long.   God Bless America!!!



Uncle Mike and Hot Tub Judy

Isn't it time for a new Third Party in the USA?

 "Both gridlocked parties are failing us; time to really rethink a viable Third Party."  --JD Deal

Quote of the Day by Tom Peters...

"Celebrate what you want to see more of." --Tom Peters

Babe Ruth, Managers and the Breakthrough Employee...

Babe Ruth mostly did nothing, but when he did do something, he did it in a big way.  --JD Deal

So why do they work at non-profits?

"A large number of nonprofit executives still feel that their pay is a lot lower than it would be at businesses.  "They think their salaries are set appropriately and more of a pay cut isn't needed," Stacy Palmer, editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Are your memories actually yours?

Our own memories are our own private thing, and how much you choose to have on Facebook or blogs, that's your thing. --Gordon Bell, Microsoft

Hugo Chavez on the Holocaust and Holocaust in Latin America...

“But there also was another holocaust in South America,” Chavez said. “I do not deny the Jewish Holocaust. And I condemn it. But in South America, when the Europeans arrived, there were close to 90 million Indians; 200 years later, we only had four million remaining. That was a holocaust. And the Europeans denied this holocaust.” --Hugo Chavez on Larry King

Why Brigitte Bardot is so picky about choosing her friends...

I detest a great part of the human species.  I feel much closer to nature and animals than man. --Brigitte Bardot in El Universal. 

On the possibility of dream readers and thought controlling computers...

Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen.

Though practical applications are decades away, the research could someday lead to dream-readers and thought-controlled computers. --Brandon Keim

Ella ama a los perros mas que los humanos...

La actriz francesa Brigitte Bardot confesó que detesta "a una gran parte de la especie humana" y que se siente "mucho más cercana a la naturaleza y a los animales que al hombre".--El Universal

Black Hole Afghanistan becoming Vietnam 2...

The U.N. said coalition forces were to blame for about a quarter of civilian deaths in 2009 — most of them in airstrikes. The top NATO commander, U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has made protecting Afghan civilians a top priority. --CNN.com

New Yorkers Resent White House Meddling in State's Affairs...

More than six out of 10 New Yorkers questioned in a Marist College survey released Thursday said it's wrong for the White House to suggest that Gov. David Paterson not run next year for election to a full term. Just over a quarter said that the Obama administration is well within its rights to get involved. --CNN.com

Quote of the day on Visualization...

Visualization is the process of making mental images, and the image is the mold which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge. --Charles Haanel

Weirdo quote of the day...

"Never in Venezuela do we have as much freedom of expression as we do now,"--President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on freedom of the press in his country.  

Why Michael Moore feels you should not be responsible for yourself...let the government do it for you...

Yes. Capitalism. Yes. Well, I don't have to say it. Capitalism, in the last year, has proven that it's failed. All the basic tenets of what we've talked about the free market, about free enterprise and competition just completely fell apart. As soon as they lost, essentially, our money, they came running to the federal government for a bailout -- for welfare, for socialism. And I thought the basic principle of capitalism was that it's a sink-or-swim situation. And those who do well, the cream rises to the top and, you know, those who invest their money wrongly or, you know, don't run their business the right way, then they don't do well. --Michael  Moore on the Larry King Show.  

Today's Empty Mind of Day Award goes to...

While working at a pizza parlour I observed a  man
ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and
the cook asked him if he  would like it cut
into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time
then said  'Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm  hungry
enough to eat 6 pieces.
They Walk Among Us!

Manager's and flu like systems from the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neems8kMqiU

From the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neems8kMqiU

As a manager... excuse me, a "leader"... if you were directed to report employees that were exhibiting flu-like symptoms, would you do it?

My Reply:

fun question with a double edged sword...if you side with the employee, as a manager you could promote the "pandemic"...if you side with management, you could be perceived as not caring about your people...of course the exact circumstances may determine the course of action, but since I'm not a doctor, nurse, P.A., etc. most likely I would want someone qualified to go through the symptoms and "certify" them...what's a cold and what's swine flu? quarantine an employee with allergies? thanks!

Maybe you really need to find another line of work, Governor Patterson

"I have never heard of a president asking a sitting governor not to run for re-election," Michelle Paterson told NBC New York Wednesday. "I thought it was very unusual and very unfair."

Just what is "cluck and grunt?"

diner speak for eggs and bacon...

Michael Moore on Why Capitalism has Failed but it's OK for him to be affluent...

I don't think I'm in that 1 percent, but I make documentary films. But I mean, obviously, I do well because my films have done well. But, you know, even if I were, I think it's my responsibility -- my moral duty that if I've done well, that I have to make sure that everybody else. --Michael Moore on CNN.com

Quote of the Day: Tamerlane Phillips on his brother John Phillips' 10 Year Incestuous Relationship with his daughter Mackenzie

"My family is and always will be a decrepit bowl of dog urine compared to Nityananda of Ganeshpuri. That is how great Nityananda is," he told the New York Post's Page Six. "Worship Nityananda, not the Phillips

One ACORN that didn't turn out to be a mighty oak...

ACORN filed suit in Maryland against two filmmakers who secretly recorded videos embarrassing to the agency, claiming the pair violated state law by taping their conversations without permission. The lawsuit seeks an injunction preventing the further distribution of the videos. The tapes show ACORN employees suggesting or condoning a series of illicit actions. --CNN.com

Empty Mind of the Week Award goes to...

I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage  area and
went to the lost luggage office and reported the loss.
The woman there smiled and  told me not to worry
because she was a  trained professional and
said I was in good  hands. 'Now,' she asked me,
'Has your plane  arrived yet?'...
(I work with professionals like this.)

They Walk Among  Us!

thought of the day on the human condition...

"All mistakes are but mistakes of ignorance." --Charles F. Haanel

Thinking quote of the day...

"Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects." --Charles F. Haanel

go ahead and beat up on your overworked employees...cause and effect?

Employee morale is the leading predictor of future growth and profitability. --Roxanne Emmerich

Ever Wonder Why Men Die First?

Why Men Die FIRST !



Standing on a bucket on TOP of a ladder, brilliant.

That CAN'T be right.


Ummmm..at least someone's holding the ladder steady


Isn't this a violation of the seatbelt laws?



Shouldn't he be wearing a lifejacket? 




Who needs a truck?
 


I get by with a little help from my friends.
 
 
 
 


Oh yeah, THAT's safe!
 
 
 
 


Hey, I strapped it down.
 
 
 
 


Hey, he has a special license to drive that truck.
 
 
 
 


Maybe we shouldn't have parked it on the side of a hill.
 
 
 
 


No problem, I can see through the holes.
 
 
 
 


It starts at a young age and men just get worse.
 
 
 
 


A new OSHA approved substitute for ladders.
 
 
 


Ropes are for sissies.  
 
 
 



Kubota's new tractor mounted scaffolding.

 

 

All I wanna know is, HOW?
 
 
 


Now I wanna know why
 
 
 



In a hurry?
 
 
 



I can cut it down AND load it in the truck!!
 

The Empty Mind of the Day Award goes to...

One  day I was walking down the beach with
some friends when someone shouted....
'Look at  that dead bird!'
Someone looked up at the sky and said...'where?'

They walk among us!

The Empty Mind Award of the Week goes to...

While looking at a house, my brother asked the
estate agent which direction was north because
he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning.
She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?'
My brother explained that the sun rises in the east
and has for sometime. She shook her head and said,
'Oh, I don't keep up with all that stuff.....'

They Walk Among  Us!

Cause, Effect and Mind quote of the day...

"It is the few who know that things which they see are only effects, and understand the causes which these effects were brought into existence." --Charles F. Haanel

Recession Over? the good tooth fairy is real too...

all the pundits and clowns that say the recession is over are just not credible...all they have to do is walk out in the real world and ask folks and find out for themselves...politics and falsehoods...

Never can have too many good stories, right?

Good stories can work in a surprising variety of situations - building loyalty, solidifying culture, even solving problems. They make your network of prospects, customers, employees and partners an extended family. But their degree of success comes down to execution: the right stories, told the right way in the right context. --BtoBonline

Online Ad hints and tips...

1) better to link to a video infomercial/advertorial than a webpage...
2) try inverting your compelling argument to see if it gives greater punch and
3) bullet, try cutting down the extraneous words and give the viewer a highlighted reason to 'convert' to a video/webpage..

Graphics, Videos, Illustrations can carry a greater impact than words...

Sometimes, a useful and informative graphic can tell a story the way no words can. Offer your readers a visually interesting graphic or illustration, and they’ll likely thank you by sharing it and linking to it. --Michelle Bowles