Have you been hitting your head against a wall with some large life problem or issue? Money issues, relationship problems, mental and physical suffering…

Looking for a new way forward?

Sometimes on the way to lifework purpose we feel really STUCK. And this doesn’t necessarily mean we’re off track… Join us Thursday, May 9th at Noon Central for the On Purpose radio show when we talk with the Rev. Leslie Nipps about the topic, “When Being STUCK is a Good Sign”

She’ll share some unexpected approaches to getting to the root of old painful issues, and even how your ancestors might be able to help…

The Rev. Leslie Nipps is a Masters Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Family Constellations Practitioner. She has also been an ordained Episcopal minister for almost twenty years.  She works with people who are intelligent and heart-based, but who sometimes wonder if they are going crazy (even though they know they’re not) because of the painful issues that keeps coming up in their relationships, work or health – and helps them to finally have the life they want.

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And we’d love to hear your experience with feeling stuck, and getting unstuck on your path to lifework purpose. 

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Join the On-Purpose Blog Talk radio show with Susyn Reeve and Rikk Hansen as they open doors to discover & live a lifework that’s alive with purpose.

Susyn and Rikk share compelling conversations with midlife professionals, entrepreneurs, experts, and authors successfully doing work that expresses their purpose & passion. Learn the secrets and resources from their stories and experience to inspire your on-purpose success. 

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“We find ourselves engaged in the possible when; the possible represents the streamline approaches to encouraging others to achieve their highest potential.”

Business monetization activity is relationship based.

Winning new business or sustaining existing business is directly related to urgency. Understanding the urgency in the eyes of your customer can yield you greater business opportunities. An area that is often difficult to nail down because we are focused on the ultimate goal of higher sales, we lose sight of a tactical part of being in business, making a respectful profit. For that reason revenue must match reality of making profit not making sales.

Final thoughts, a sale revolves around:

1. Relationships, use Social Media to build upon face-to-face relationship is better, because the human attention span is short, this is a human factors resource element. You can have a face-to-face relationship with someone across the planet, with someone you have not met. Social Media is a form of limitless digital face-to-face, such Powerful Stuff!

2. Urgency, in the customers mind “Think Customer’s Pain Reduction.”

3. Providing credible services by staying in your core business to drive positive customer perceptions and relationships.

“Successful marketing is a twofold experience, the First is colorful theatrics, and the Second is results!” & remember “We are all in sales…”

by AMERICAN WRITER Dr. Pietro Savo Tradition Books Publication © 2011

Manufacturing Research Practitioner ™ by Pietro

Read, write, and question everything!
Our voices are powerful and true!

Pietro Savo E-Mail Link Dr.Pete@EducationIsPower.US

Jobs 4 All Now is an amazing 10 Step System that takes the guesswork out of getting hired. Jobs 4 All Now team is composed of some of the most highly sought after experts in the employment, networking and career coaching industries.

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Our founding fathers recognized the importance of having citizen politicians. Citizen politicians defined over 237 years ago as people who participate in the political process, and these people come from all walks of life, such as farmers, businesses, law practices, inn keepers, chimney sweepers and schoolteachers.

These citizen politicians participated in the people’s government result in fresh new realist practical ideas from the communities they live in. These ideas coming from the community bringing reality and cultural inspiration based on real world experiences. These citizen politicians representing the people’s government and after their politicking is done they simply travel home to their citizens lives once again.

What is deeply saddening is the evolutionary process of the professional politician, who’s only goal in life is to stay in that elected seat full-time and forever. Without ever relinquishing this position resulting in stagnant ideas, with no possible sense of connection to the real people that elected them. In addition, a lack of connection to any sense of reality at all, these professional politicians are more closely aligned to an elitist mindset nowhere grounded to the community they are supposed to represent.

Political elitists have no direct correlation to the citizens that they represent, in most cases these professional politicians are not even from the same state. The only reason that these professional politicians are there, is because a great deal of money is now made for being a professional politician. Our founding fathers never intended to make citizens full-time politicians, or they would have written term-limits into the constitution for all elected officials from dogcatcher to the president.

Instead, what we have today a professional politician with no real connection back to the community that they represent, and what happens is “we the people” cease to exist.” “We the people” today are no longer the foundation for this government, and we the people have become merely three words in the English language.

Not going to happen on my watch; Our voices are powerful and true!

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Manufacturing Research Practitioner ™ by Pietro

Read, write, and question everything!
Our voices are powerful and true!

Pietro Savo E-Mail Link PietroSavoUSA@aol.com

by AMERICAN WRITER Dr. Pietro Savo Tradition Books Publication © 2011

Manufacturing Research Practitioner ™ by Dr. Pietro

Read, write, and question everything!
Our voices are powerful and true!

Pietro Savo E-Mail Link Dr.Pete@EducationIsPower.US

Jobs 4 All Now is an amazing 10 Step System that takes the guesswork out of getting hired. Jobs 4 All Now team is composed of some of the most highly sought after experts in the employment, networking and career coaching industries.

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Small Business Building with Dr. Pete from Boston

“STEM Fields” Talent Shortage.

Listen at – STEM Education with Dr Pete from Boston

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By –  Mike Boehler

Dr. Pete Savo

Dr. Pete Savo

Join Dr. Pete, Friday, 12/28 at 11:30 am, as he discusses “STEM Fields” Talent Shortage; How the United States can regain its competitiveness in math-and science-related fields.

For the past 100 years, technological innovations in science and engineering have fueled the U.S. economy, produced good jobs and an extraordinary standard of living, and established the United States as an international economic leader.

Our nation’s international segment of industries focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), though, is in profound decline. STEM education and entrepreneurial thinking has taken a back seat to empirical learning, resulting in a decline in good jobs, and here we are.

Here is the big problem: The cost of waiting for old ideas to catch up with modern job-creation practices obstructs new market opportunities. Such obstructions represent a stream of wasteful practices, making it difficult to be competitive in today’s volatile markets. The loss of competitiveness results in lost work and higher unemployment statistics.

Dr. Pete shares with you the pyramid designed STEM education solutions, tune in and learn more!

Thanks for your emails and comments on last week’s show- Rediscover – Back to the Basics with Dr. Pete from Boston

Improve and build your business

Master your Markets – become the competition!

Public and Private sectors

Doing business with the US Government

Doing business with Boeing Aircraft, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce, Northup Grumman, Raytheon United Technologies

Manufacturing and Industrial Improvement.

Veteran Affairs & Education Opportunities.

Dr. Pete Savo works with an education company serving members of the military community nationwide.

Dr. Savo, a respected lecturer and published author, spent 18 years with Sikorsky Aircraft and six years as a direct business operations and lean manufacturing consultant for the U.S. Air Force Small Business Manufacturing Technical Assistance Production Program (MTAPP), Air Force Outreach Program Office and the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain missions.

Dr. Pietro (Pete) Savo US Navy Veteran

PietroSavoUSA@aol.com

603.321.6224

Blog – http://pietrosavo.wordpress.com

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Segueway to Success - The Changing OEM Model – Made in the USA?

By Tom Kuchan

Historically, recessions in the United States have tended to originate in the manufacturing sector.  Each school of economic thought, Keynesians, Monetarists, Austrians, etc., have their own theories as to why it happens but regardless of the “why” the “where” has been fairly consistent.  This last recession however was different.

Starting in the financial sector with the collapse of the mortgage market and the billions of dollars worth of mortgage backed securities attendant to it, the collapse in manufacturing became an unconventional lagging participant in the collapse.  Soon, however, manufacturing found itself deeply wounded and it remains so today.

Consider some statistics.  According to the US Department of Labor, manufacturing jobs are still down more than 2 million since the beginning of 2007.  The U.S. Census Department has plant utilization at 73.1% through Sept. 30, 2012.  The global manufacturing survey firm Markit reported just this week that U.S. manufacturing barely grew in the third quarter and showed statistically no improvement over the previous quarter.  Pick 50 other measures and you will get 50 other pieces of discouraging news.

As we turn our attention to the imminent election and the changes that may, or may not, come from it, one of the concerns in manufacturing is how easy will it be for manufacturers to rebound if and when the economy starts to turn around?  One of the likely consequences in having had this recession start in the financial sector and having had banks publicly blamed for causing it is that bank lending, in all forms not just residential, is unlikely to quickly return to pre-recession levels.  This means that manufacturing industry access to the financial leverage needed to ramp back up will not be available the way it has been during past recoveries.

Also, foreign manufacturing competition is an ever growing factor.  A recent project conducted with a high school class which Segueway principals mentor involved studying the production and sale of school desks.  Research by the students determined that while numerous U.S. based companies sell desks to high schools, very few desks are actually made in the United States.  China and Taiwan were the primary sources.  This repeats itself across a broad spectrum of products which further hampers U.S. manufacturing.

What is the answer?  One possibility lies in what we’ll call the Reeses’ Manufacturing Paradigm; sticking foreign manufacturing peanut butter in American product chocolate.  U.S. manufacturers supplying component parts to larger manufacturers or assemblers can keep their OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) status, their patents and their customers while taking advantage of lower cost foreign production.  In this scenario the American OEM turns into a slightly glorified reseller of its own design.  The product is made overseas to the specifications of the U.S. OEM and is then transferred through that OEM to the large end-user.  This approach will greatly reduce overhead costs and allow the now idle, or near idle, US company to rapidly return to the market with better margins and enhanced profitability.

To take advantage of such an opportunity the US company needs to find just the right manufacturing partner overseas.  This is not as easy as one might think.  Foreign business cultures are difficult to navigate absent experience and contacts.  When traveling abroad, tourists often are in need of a translator.  A company seeking to source foreign manufacturing needs the business equivalent of that translator.

One such company providing that service is Itasca, Illinois-based M-Wave.  M-Wave has the contacts and knowledge to create the necessary foreign manufacturing alliances and minimize the risk to the U.S. company.

Join us this coming Wednesday when Jim Mayer, Director at M-Wave, shares his thoughts about the challenges facing US manufacturing today and how they can improve their chances tomorrow.

Our “Segueway to Success” show airs each Wednesday at 15:00 Central Time at

Listen in - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/linkedlocalnetwork/2012/10/31/segueway-to-success

Segueway Solutions – http://www.seguewaysolutions.com/

(847) 778-9474

Brent E. Hamachek spent the first 15 years of his professional life in banking, working in 6 different sectors including audit, credit and 9 years as a commercial banker.

After commercial banking, Brent formed Segueway Solutions in 2000 in order to assist privately held companies in transition. To date, he has worked in 40 different industries and has served in the capacity of CEO, CFO & EVP Sales for clients. Brent is a sought after consultant, speaker and trainer offering national and foreign expertise to clients.

brent@SeguewaySolutions.com  

Tom Kuchan is a proven leader in global business expansion and effectiveness, risk management, finance and operations with experience in both Fortune 50 and entrepreneurial environments. He has a proven record of defining strategic objectives, translating them into operational tasks, and leading their implementation in diverse geographies and cultures across the globe.

Tom has lived overseas for over twenty years, including Switzerland, Germany and the United Arab Emirates, and has worked extensively across Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

tom@SeguewaySolutions.com

The Curt Gibbs w/Davo Show           

The Presidential Debates are Over…Who’s Your Choice?

Curt Gibbs

We’ve heard the rhetoric, had a chance to see the candidates in action, we’re bombarded with commercials and polls that change daily.

Which horse do you like in this race?

I’ve offered this backdrop to introduce this Thursday’s radio program.  In a couple of weeks, you’re going to have the opportunity and rare privilege two invest in one of two America’s.  And the stakes have never been higher for you!    

So please join us this Thursday 10/25 from 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. where I intend to intentionally  slow things down a bit on the Curt Gibbs Show w/Davo.  And we encourage you to call in and share in our discussion.

Call (323) 580-5755 and you’ll be patched into the show, (The beautiful part of the phone is your boss will think that you’re landing million dollar deals even though we’re having fun discussing this most important topic.)

We’ll be looking for you!

Presidential Debates…Who to Believe

The Curt Gibbs  w/Davo Show           

Curt Gibbs

Investing in America?     

If you’re an investor like myself, it’s a good idea to  stay informed about the markets, especially in turbulent times like these.  What’s hot today can quickly cool tomorrow, so you have to stay on your toes.  Many successful investors recommend a two step approach to locating assets that are poised to increase in value.  In very general terms, it works like this.

Step one: Observe “trends” and potential “needs” in our society, which I think is very good advice.   Let’s face it, investing is really all about predicting the future.  If you’re convinced that our societies wants and needs will grow in any one direction, try to get out in front of it.  Most obvious examples might be communication equipment and services, medicines for the aging baby boomers, new technology in computer hardware and software to name a few.

Now, once you’ve found a company that is heavily involved in a growing market, then you initiate step two which is:

Step Two:  Take a close look under the hood of your selected company and look for physical evidence that they are succeeding and growing.  These evaluations involve real hard evidence like profit/loss statements, balance sheets, sales data, operational costs, marketing programs etc.  You see, without the physical evidence of a profitable company to back up your assessment of their position in the future, you risk losing everything.

I’ve offered this backdrop to introduce this Thursday’s radio program.  Because in November you’re going to have the opportunity and rare privilege two invest in one of two America’s.  And the stakes have never been higher for you!    

So please join us this Thursday from 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. where I intend to intentionally  slow things down a bit on the Curt Gibbs Show w/Davo.  And we encourage you to call in and share in our discussion.

Call (323) 580-5755 and you’ll be patched into the show, (The beautiful part of the phone is your boss will think that you’re landing million dollar deals even though we’re having fun discussing this most important topic.)

We’ll be looking for you!

Small Business Building with Dr. Pete from Boston

“Education from Manufacturing Industry History” , Social Media, Regulatory & Political  Challenges weakening higher education.

Join Dr. Pete, Friday, 10/12 at 11:30 am, as he explores 3 interconnected subjects effecting us all!

1.     Education From Manufacturing Industry History

2.     Social Media is the secret sauce for modern education success, do you agree?

3.     The Extraordinary Regulatory and Political Challenges have Weakened the Value of Higher Education!

Thanks for your emails and comments on last week’s show “STEM Fields” Talent Shortage; How the United States can regain its competitiveness in math and science related fields.

Dr. Pete event! EDU Market Summit – October 24-26 InterContinental Kansas City – Military Enrollment – Transitioning American Veterans – Thursday, October 25 – 1:00 PM – We find ourselves challenged to support the strengths and needs of veterans as they transition from military life to pursuing higher education. Understanding these challenges is crucial to developing and delivering EDU strategies that promote veteran retention, degree completion rates and a productive, successful transition of the American veteran.

http://edumarketingsummit.plattformad.com/sessions

Improve and build your business

Master your Markets – become the competition!

Public and Private sectors

Doing business with the US Government

Doing business with Boeing Aircraft, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce, Northup Grumman, Raytheon United Technologies

Manufacturing and Industrial Improvement.

Veteran Affairs & Education Opportunities.

Dr. Pete Savo works with an education company serving members of the military community nationwide.

Dr. Savo, a respected lecturer and published author, spent 18 years with Sikorsky Aircraft and six years as a direct business operations and lean manufacturing consultant for the U.S. Air Force Small Business Manufacturing Technical Assistance Production Program (MTAPP), Air Force Outreach Program Office and the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain missions.

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Small Business Building with Dr. Pete from Boston

“STEM Fields” Talent Shortage.

by Mike Boehler

Join Dr. Pete, Friday, 10/05 at 11:30 am, as he discusses “STEM Fields” Talent Shortage; How the    United States can regain its competitiveness in math- and science-related fields.

For the past 100 years,  technological innovations in science and engineering have fueled the U.S. economy, produced good jobs and an extraordinary standard of living, and established the United States as an international economic leader.

Our nation’s international segment of industries focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), though, is in profound decline. STEM education and entrepreneurial thinking has taken a back seat to empirical learning, resulting in a decline in good jobs, and here we are.

Here is the big problem: The cost of waiting for old ideas to catch up with modern job-creation practices obstructs new market opportunities. Such obstructions represent a stream of wasteful practices, making it difficult to be competitive in today’s volatile markets. The loss of competitiveness results in lost work and higher unemployment statistics.

Dr. Pete shares with you the pyramid designed STEM education solutions, tune in and learn more!

Thanks for your emails and comments on last week’s show  ”Education from Manufacturing Industry History”.

Improve and build your business

Master your Markets – become the competition!

Public and Private sectors

Doing business with the US Government

Doing business with Boeing Aircraft, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce, Northup Grumman, Raytheon United Technologies

Manufacturing and Industrial Improvement.

Veteran Affairs & Education Opportunities.

Dr. Pete Savo works with an education company serving members of the military community nationwide.

Dr. Savo, a respected lecturer and published author, spent 18 years with Sikorsky Aircraft and six years as a direct business operations and lean manufacturing consultant for the U.S. Air Force Small Business Manufacturing Technical Assistance Production Program (MTAPP), Air Force Outreach Program Office and the Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain missions.

Dr. Pietro (Pete) Savo US Navy Veteran

PietroSavoUSA@aol.com

  603.321.6224

Blog – http://pietrosavo.wordpress.com

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LinkedIn

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American Writer a Positive Thinking Movement by Dr. Pietro (Pete) Savo

Christopher Musselwhite (1990) identified the need for business to define a process that encourages best capabilities and practices to ensure business success. The focus of the organization’s leaders is to develop new leaders through early involvement of engineering teams. This means that leaders need to define practices that encourage people to learn, share ideas, and achieve their greatest potential (Musselwhite, 1990). Equally important is for the manufacturing organization to develop training programs that internally create career paths that cultivate and grow its own qualified workforce. This was a lesson identified during the Industrial Revolution of the 1830s. Business limitations and possible failures occur by not investing in modern equipment and human capital. Businesses that do not develop strategies to keep pace with, or stay ahead of new technologies fall short in advancing business markets. The result is lost business market competitiveness, jobs, and the loss of historical knowledge.

leaders need to define practices that encourage people to learn, share ideas, and achieve their greatest potential

The concept of education from manufacturing history encourages a broad-minded knowledge base focused on learning from history to encourage manufacturing process research and training as a strategic means to keep pace with market changes. According to Witzel (2007), the existing literature and actual field experiences from manufacturing lessons, first identified 160 years ago, clearly identify that the U.S. failed to learn from history the need for continued training, which resulted in lost market knowledge and jobs. Companies generally invested in technology and human capital when the business performance is positive and cash is available, not when the need was greatest.

History does repeat itself when the lessons learned are not heeded. Charles Babbage was a British inventor and mathematician credited with inventing the digital computer in the 1800′s. Babbage, educated in Great Britain and a profound thinker, often spoke about the economic perils associated with not investing in manufacturing, design research, and human education. Great Britain ignored Babbage’s insight by not investing, while the emerging economic rivals, the U.S. and Germany, did. The result was that Great Britain wasted their progressive knowledge and lost its global market superiority. Britain’s failure, forecasted by Babbage, occurred because they failed to learn from history. The U.S. repeated this failure by not learning from its history (Howell, 2006), which permitted the negative grip of a poor economy and high unemployment to take hold.

we need Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with United States best interest in mind! FTA that provides the United States manufacturing industry an equal playing field

In the last 50 years, the U.S. poor economy and high unemployment resulted from a combination of factors, such as free trade agreements (FTA), which included government policy changes that affected manufacturing, Currently, the U.S. has FTAs with 15 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua Oman, Peru, and Singapore. The seminal research by Robert Scott (2001), while engaged in writing for the Economic Policy Institute, addressed why FTA core principles better supported the 50 years of the strategic industrial growth policies of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, and China than the U.S. The Asian model simply protected their industries by investing heavily in manufacturing process research, employee education, and subsidizing R&D investment. This strategic industrial growth policy represented the complete opposite of what occurred in the U.S.

The problem is that the U.S. failed to learn lessons from their past pertaining to protecting manufacturing industries, and consequently lost important knowledge and market share. Here we are again, high unemployment, poor unprepared economy, in and modern age of technologic wonder and the U.S. is unprepared, unfocused, and failing to thrive resulting lost its global market superiority…

equally important is for the manufacturing organization to develop training programs that internally create career paths that cultivate and grow its own qualified workforce

References

Howell, D. (2006). Fighting unemployment : the limits of free market orthodoxy. New York: Oxford University Press

Musselwhite, C. (1990). Time-based innovation: the new competitive advantage. Training and Development Journal. Madison, 44(1), 4.

Witzel, M. (2007). Charles Babbage: The man who saw the future. . European Business Forum, 29, 50-56.

by AMERICAN WRITER Dr. Pietro Savo Tradition Books Publication © 2012

Manufacturing Research Practitioner ™ by Dr. Pietro Savo

Read, write, and question everything!Our voices are powerful and true!

Dr. Pietro Savo E-Mail Link blog@americanwriter.us