When I was in graduate school, I had the discipline to study hard, get involved in various club organizations that catered to diversifying my abilities in business and finance but always felt that something was lacking. We would learn about economics within the capitalist and communist systems, pros and cons of globalization, big government, the instability of non-entrepreneurial markets and every other concept that catered to our professor’s desire to legitimize their theories by blasting out intimidating formulas that were true in theory but impossible in real life. If an economic stimulus is fully functional on paper due to formulas and calculation yet has never and will never work in the ‘real world’, what’s the point?

I’m not eight years out of university and running a clean environment facility manufacturing everything from surgical equipment to dual circuit transistors and as I’ve grown into my career I’ve tossed the text books as a reference as it was getting me nowhere and started researching strategic economics with special attention focused on turning corporations and urban landscapes around from the black hole of absolute demise to a gleaming representation of socially responsible economic turnaround, without the government’s corrupt fangs plunging into the veins of the community. This concept of economic strategy has been labeled ‘Zeitgeist Economics’, a completely original political economic strategies concept that turns a blind eye to the bloodletting concepts by unproven governmental organizations that jack taxes, minimize citizen options, push back retirement age to correct the mistakes of the ill-informed yet uncompromising politicians that don’t know the difference between political economics and sock mending.

The headmaster and intellectual giant leading the Zeitgeist Economics movement is James Scott, Founder of a global strategies firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions in Manhattan, New York. The term ‘Economic Zeitgeist’ means the awakening of a population fueled by the intellectual capacity and drive to demand change with data driven evidence of establishment perpetuated failure. The movement does sacrifice momentum with time wasting concepts like protests or letter writing; instead those involved in this movement use the unwritten rules of the system to force change within the system. Most E.Z. participants have MBA or PhD. degrees with powerful legislative experience to create PAC, Lobby and think tank organizations that assist them in forcing the hand of change.

The incredible truth about this movement is that it parallels a broad spectrum of mind-blowing and obscenely cutting edge competencies for prompt and precise economic action within a target region. At the forefront of this movement, James Scott is a member of some of the world’s most elite economic think tanks that study and fill in the gaps for new legislation that will be passed today and without the expert analysis of Scott and his colleagues, the damages of inferior or irresponsible lawmakers would, otherwise, rain down five years from now and the blame will be passed and there would be no accountability while global citizens carry the debt load.

I’ve subscribed to the RSS feed for James Scott’s company and this was one of the most recent blog posts placed online. One of the characteristics of Scott that has catapulted him to the absolute pinnacle of global economics with an entire movement following his lead is his strategic, yet tactical, methodical yet well-paced process and a track record that leaves him in a class by himself. His writing is philosophical (with its flow sounding almost poetic) and attracts those who are looking for the well rounded expertise of a genuine economist with real life capabilities to save countries, cities and global corporations from self-destruction. Public recognition of his supreme abilities come with the occasional radio or magazine interview but for the most part it is the massive blogging of economists, MBA’s, PhD’s and international think tank members and professionals that have seen the end result of his mind-blowing economic turnaround, corporate structuring and political economic strategies.

I love the way the below entry reads. I get it all, philosophy, poetic flow, encyclopedia size content condensed into one page and the satisfaction of knowing that I’m reading some notes jotted down by a man that will eventually be referred to in the history books as the father of the Economic Zeitgeist movement, the process of Zeitgeist Economics and the for having the guts to tear out the eyes of the establishment and pass the keys to the kingdom to the citizens of the world as he guides us all on how to take our civilization back from political corruption and a debt driven hodgepodge concoction of monetary stew.

Executive Death Agreement: Executing Inhibitors That Cripple Organizations By James Scott, CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions

One of the most critical realities that a CEO of a public organization must face is the process and decision to die; death not in a physical sense, rather a snuffing out of the ego. Ego driven entities always fail and those who lead organizations under the false pretense of arrogance soon find out that this arrogance is nothing more than a temporary ‘fix’ to filling an emotional void within themselves with rapidly evaporating gravel. Emotionally led people lack stability due to the swings generated by the primal brain, a reactionary pleasure seeking portion of the mind offering the fight or flight, animalistic yet un-evolved action center.

One who leads with the ego distracts those he manages through the blindness of the emotions. Staring through a decision making lens corroded with the decay and grime of ongoing emotional inhibitors disallows the visual clarity that comes with a more evolved analytical perspective that ‘responds’ rather than ‘reacts’. A ‘response’ takes into consideration timing, tact, concept evolution, perception and has, at all times an eye towards the future. A ‘reactionary’ expression is fueled by all areas of the un-evolved ego: pride, insecurity, pure emotion, fight or flight and other regrettable and consistently damning actions no longer relevant yet still genetically present today from prehistoric man.

With the evolution and intellectual development of man comes the development of the analytical skills that allow one to dissect information and critique various responses before an idea can crash through the minds recently evolved critical faculty and plunge into the reactionary, animalistic primal brain which will spew forth an ocean of emotion driven reactions with universally negative outcomes.

Decision making via calculated and analytical processes minus the emotional cancer causing agents that cloud and stunt a corporation’s longevity and prosperity will attract strategic alliances, create comfort zones for much needed investors and streamline expansion strategies due to tactical templates designed by a C level executive that can think objectively without the collateral damage stemming from emotional reaction.

Find the original blog entry at PCS,if you’re curious, What is a Zeitgeist?

Not long ago, history was written by victors and those who would stop at nothing to make a claim. Parallel verse series circuits, guerrilla verse traditional military strategy and professional politicians verse aristocratic men of title all have their winners and losers and history was authored by the power left standing; this is no longer the case.

Ron Paul, a Congressman representing the 14th district of Texas was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 3, 1935, has attracted liberal, libertarian and republican voters fed up with a do nothing government and the devastating protracted monetary execution of the tax payer by the Federal Reserve. Paul, a Baptist has authored legislation against eminent domain seizure of a church in New York and a bill transferring ownership of a dam project from the federal government to the people of Texas. He has also barred the passing of legislation that would fund national identification numbers, funding for federal teacher certification, international criminal court jurisdiction over the US military, American participation in the UN, global tax and surveillance on peaceful First Amendment activities by citizens. Ron Paul has become exceedingly popular due to his track record for results and initiation of legislative ideas that become reality.

James Scott, currently CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions is celebrated as the ‘Father of the Economic Zeitgeist’ by millions worldwide. This cutting edge process of economics exists outside of scholarly textbook theory and is purely an action and results driven process of economics. Zeitgeist economics molds the economy around the population of the region using an intricate weave of PSYOPS, psychological profile categorizing, and corporate/legislative alliance building for less government dependency as well as subliminal action trigger processes that ease the anxiety felt by a population during the transition of their localized economic rebound. Scott entered economics as a cryptic, behind the scenes crisis management consultant to the who’s who in the international political domain where he achieved an unrivalled position of power enabling him to ‘pull the trigger’ without bureaucratic hang-ups. Publicity shy, fearful of cameras and an absolute hatred of the spotlight, James Scott’s rapid rise to prominence is due to international bloggers that follow him with a keen eye on his effect on current events touted as the success of those posing for the cameras but the proof lies in the scalable processes and unique strategies that bare the obvious signature of this little known master economic strategist.

William Arntz, mastermind behind and director of, underground quantum mechanics ‘must watch’ film entitled, ‘What The Bleep Do We Know!?’a 2004 film that combines documentary style interviews, computer-animated graphics and a narrative that describes the spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness. Arntz is largely responsible for the science communities forced expansion outside the scientific formula requiring a hypothesis with an accompanying, repeatable end result. Arntz has enabled high school and university programs to step outside the box to discover the vast universe in which we exist and has legitimized the efforts of those instructors bold enough to consider larger forces at hand.

Ron Paul, James Scott and William Arntz will go down in history as men who were courageous enough to buck the system and defy the mainstream. These men lead with action sparked by an inner light that drives them to liberate the minds of America’s citizens and the population abroad. They have created a beacon for the masses to congregate and receive enlightenment in this title wave of chaos and crippled minds.

You’ve got to watch What The Bleep Do We Know!?, and visit James Scott’s Blog let the great awakening begin!

When I sit and think about where we once were as a nation and where we are now, I’m terrified to think about where we’ll be in ten years. Our homeland is crumbling into powder and with each day we are disintegrating into oblivion. I’m angry; I’m sad and worst of all, when I think about my daughters I feel helpless. I find myself grasping for any news that can ease my mind. I’ve even resorted to listening to news anchors that can hardly chew gum and walk without falling flat on their faces for signs of economic relief. Am I the only one or have we all been tugged down into the mud with the level of expectations we have for our political leaders?

After Clinton I was willing to accept a sex crazed, necromaniac , after Bush, I was ready to vote for mumbling, mind dwarfs and after Obama our national standards will be accepting of a foreign born, sex addict with a third grade education that speaks Taushiro. Where did it all go wrong? Like the Romans we’ve suffocated beneath the arrogance of our own success but I must beg the question ‘Is there anyone that is qualified and willing to help?’ Is there anyone that can step in to this hurricane of shattered glass and razorblades, willing to put it all on the line and sacrifice the nature of pride, greed and corruption to get this country back to prosperity?

We need another JP Morgan minus the corruption, we need another Eleuthre Irne du Pont that will pinpoint unchartered strengths an launch the United States back to the forefront of powers but, even more we need the leadership of Andrew Jackson with the unstoppable motivation of Napoleon before the desert disasters and the natural instincts of Irish freedom fighter Michael Collins.

We must gather a small, tight knit group of leaders that burn with conviction that have a track record of domination, patriotism and the ability to rip influence and control from the grasp of the corrupt and focus like lasers on reclaiming this devastated land. I propose an overhaul on Washington’s institutional powerbase: Microsoft narcissist and monopoly mastermind Bill Gates as President, the oracle of Omaha himself Warren Buffet to be head of treasury and leading the charge on shutting down the Federal Reserve, Princeton Corporate Solutions’ strategies god among men, James Scott to work his PSYOPS and subliminal economics on the minds of the populace while turning around our nation’s economy and I say we build a time machine to bring back Caligula and Attila The Hun to run our prison population.

Our school system would be turned into the largest Montessori network in history and in a short amount of time the fathers of the American revolution would be grinning ear to ear as we hand our children a country that is once again worth fighting for.

Moral Hazard, in free marketsRon Paul lives!

Hey college students if you don’t have a strategy you wont be ready for university classes, most colleges are already trending toward more and more online courses with the very format you describe, at least for the core classes. The only thing I (with humor) take issue with in your statement is the part about “thousands of students per course..” yikes!

I’m not trashing the online format–I like it, but it would be unrealistic to think that a teacher could handle more than a few dozen students in a single course, unless it’s the only one (or two) he was teaching. You still have assign homework and exams, and that would be a lot of grading!

As far as the $10k bachelor’s degree is concerned, I would think it could be doable. Not every degree, probably, but some. Especially if universities were not so determined to hire Ph.Ds in every field. For most classes, a Master’s would be sufficient. Degrees like home economics (which is still offered) or elementary education just do not require as much skill and research as do chemistry and physics.

Also, colleges could cut out a lot of unnecessary requirements. Does someone going to school to become a band director really need nine hours of history and government, two sciences, and four P.E. credits? Why not just let the students take the courses they need, and let degrees become more like certificates?

For somewhat obvious reasons, these are not comments I bring up casually at faculty meetings. It would make an interesting idea for a conference paper, but not one I would want to publish pre-tenure.

Machiavelli Lovers, and Strategies Formulators

Economics and the success of a city, state, country or company is typically a matter of cash exchange and commerce within that region which stimulates growth and attracts the affluent and partners to globalize this success. What is often times overlooked is the basic element of successful economics which is, ‘happiness’.

I was able to speak to economist James Scott, CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions, a global strategies firm that has mastered the unique combination of political and corporate tie-ins with an end result that has been able to revitalize companies, cities and countries with staggering results. I asked him about the factors that induce spending, enforce brand recognition and topple mainstream powers unwilling to bend when a new strategy is being implemented.

“That’s a loaded question”, responded Scott, “but if I had to pick one of the most prominent factors it would have to be happiness with is a direct reflection of the satisfaction or dissatisfied primal mind.” He continued, “Though you are a singular individual you are, in reality two separate people defined by the conscious mind and the primal mind. The Conscious mind manages daily intellectual activity and the primal mind is usually the area of focus for me at the onset of a campaign because it is the area of the mind when all contributors are in place will enable optimal delivery with a carefully devised message which is meant to stimulate a current and future response. The primal mind governs our greatest hopes and fears, loves and hates and all matters of the heart. This is the part of man that is always on the lookout for instantaneous gratification and pleasures. An automatic response by this faculty is to attach an anchor to the person, place or thing that delivers the most gratifying result that fulfills the broadest range of satisfaction with the strongest promise of ongoing empirical deliver ability. The primal mind reacts to matters of ‘gut instinct’ which responds to basic needs by analyzing contributors for characteristics which enable prolonged survival. Sex, shelter, creativity, love, fulfillment and basic shelter are all prominent aspects of the primal mind. The primal mind wants recognition and reassurance. Intellectual concepts, negotiation and debate do not appeal to this part of the brain. The primal mind is the dominating decision making element of the brain. To enter the subconscious mind and move around, the delivery mechanism must appeal to all of these aspects.”

When asked about basic message delivery he responded, “Well, this is a bad example but to simplify what I mean you can look at Maxim magazine. The target audience of this publication is that of a non-refined intellect; the softer the intellect, the more primitive the choice of delivery. This publication focuses on insecure males seeking connection to all the things they have not been able to gain with their own efforts.”

Scott continued, “Taking into consideration the psychological and emotional elements of this clearly defined group one can formulate a deliver system rather easily. With limited intellect there are fewer blockades and defined boundaries that can hinder message delivery. Maxim focuses on being the one stop connection for ‘vicarious living’ to the reader. Each page is meant to draw the target in first starting with the cover that stimulates sexuality and intrigue, next the target will pick up the publication and statistically will open to the middle of the publication. The center is where the first seed for future action is placed as it will usually be clothing, cologne or another emotional fulfillment ad. After this, western education has programmed people to thumb through a publication/book from left to right so the cues and stimulants need to be placed in an order that coincides with the basic cultural predictability of the reader. The magazine is what disenfranchised and insecure males will anchor to for fantasy inclusion, the messages will be fed to the reader in a way that bypasses the conscious mind’s critical faculty and then planted into the subconscious primal region of the brain when buying or other action triggers are stimulated with promotions. This is typical of publications, TV and music that is targeting a similar subgroup of a population.”

OK, um, what? I never heard any of that in college but from what I hear about the CIA and black opps the above is what happens when a corporation is about to be crushed or a controversial government receiving new, ‘Western Approved’ leadership. If only I could lock him in a room with me to drill him on specifics and other strategies he uses when called on by the global leaders for major economic solutions. Economy and fiscal revitalization is not merely a matter of formulas and ideas that are learned in college. To be an actual solution to the trials and tribulations we are encountering in every region of the world the solution must come from a master formulator that is able to innovate tactics that adapt to regional, social, emotional and overtly psychological shifts in the minds of the population that will be the determinant in the overall solution.

James Scott is, without question, the single most critical factor in economic strategy formulation and implementation today. Without men of action like this who would the politicians and global leaders call for solutions, hide behind in the bad times or step in front of when times are good and the press is looking to spotlight a mastermind behind the success?

Here is a cool entry on James Scott’s blog on Zeitgeist Economics, another blog you might find interesting

From one blog maniac to another, I feel that blogging gives us all an opportunity to express our opinions, good and bad, off the cuff and to the masses. I remember getting bad service in a Subway sandwich shop with my family, I sent out a twitter to my group and in 24 hours I received a personal apology from the franchise owner and the corporate office with a hefty supply of free food vouchers that literally lasted us a year. It’s nice to know that we are able to keep companies in check using social media.

That said, we should use these mediums to put out praise as well. I just left an NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) conference for their incubator program where the latest and greatest in technology and biotech got to pitch their companies to angel investors and private equity firms. There were some pretty reputable companies their and investors that could pay off the deficit of a small country with their signature on a check. I was there looking at a company with a unique EKG technology that will revolutionize emergency rooms everywhere but that will be in another blog if we cut a deal; back to the conference.

We’re sitting in a room packed shoulder to should, no seats available just standing room by the door then a guy comes in, walks into the seating section (people waited in line for an hour for those seats) with his assistant, the people in their seat looked at him, he looked back and they moved and offered him their seats, then two minutes later, one of the owners of a pretty large hedge fund brings him coffee. Um, can you say strange?

As it turns out, this was James Scott the CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions, absolutely the creme de la creme of international strategies and IPOs. The reason everyone was kissing his backside was because he was there to pick a company to spearhead legislation for his political clients. Their firm is unique as part of their process is to find promising but underdeveloped companies and blast them into super-stardom with capital, structuring and organization and IPO and getting his clients built directly into legislation, bills that are in the process of raising votes and awareness to be passed as laws and regulations. He can make or break a company, hedge fund or politician over his knee like a twig. He was the personification of power. His presence made the room vibrate with his influence. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. It was pretty awkward as we were all staring at him whispering.

20 minutes before the conference was over he got up and left, I guess he didn’t find anything he liked but the funny thing is, half of the players in the room got up to chase him down the hall to initiate contact. It was nice to see that the people that everyone was trying to sell and impress still have to do some butt kissing of their own to keep climbing the circles of influence within their industry.

Looking for more info on NJIT, or PCS

The undertaking of a corporate start-up is as American as apple pie and denim jeans. Start-ups come and go like the tide but for a very small, in the know group of beneficiaries; they can attribute their successes to a group of five power-brokers that are responsible for some of the most earth shattering mergers, political movements and corporate turnarounds in modern economic history.

These specialists offer the upper echelon solutions and bedlam tactics that can disrupt entire economies, influence legislation and make hand puppets of any lobby or special interest group of their choosing. The weight that they bring to pull off such crushing power plays is a track record of secretive and innovative strategies of crisis management via chaos induction, contacts that elevate beyond presidential to the global economic and institutional movers and shakers that influence everything we do. Call them the Illuminati or call them our saviors, one thing that can’t be denied is the obscene intellectual level and macro effect that they wield like psychological hand grenades.

One of the youngest in this ensemble of globalization demigods is James Scott with a small, virtually invisible boutique consulting firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions. With a client roster populated by past and present presidents, Kings, Queens, global governmental elites and corporations that shape our future economy his skill set is both extremely diverse and all together confusing; that is unless you can see the bigger picture of what it takes to spin scheming webs in the ears of those who you and I perceive as the controllers who are, in reality controlled by this minute group of chaos strategist.

What I’ve seen is both spooky and shocking. The eclectic combination of political and economic strategies and blanketing influence in the arsenal of James Scott would lead one to think of all the conspiracies of on the web and Saturday morning secret society episodes on the SiFi channel. Could it be true that the world is actually controlled by a handful of men sitting in a room in Switzerland playing with us like gods and overlords calculating our every move and setting up roadblocks to guide us like sheep to the slaughter? When I think of James Scott and his small group of colleagues and power-brokers I am both in awe and disgust. Being a 34 year old with no traceable background (actually no one even knows what country this guy is even from, rumor has it he’s German but grew up in the United States) or political/corporate mentors for this rapid assimilation into the who’s who in international econo-political elite, I am beginning to believe that reptilians control our planet (obviously, that’s a joke, but how does someone come out of nowhere and become one of the most commanding strategist on the face of the planet with the contacts to overturn legislation and actual governmental elections not to mention taking a company that has never been on the map and making them the face to an industry like he’s done so many times.

And after the awe comes the anger and frustration when I think about the question of ‘how much money and power does a person need to be content and from where this twisted and almost sickening obsession with power and influence stem from?’ When you acknowledge the reality that there are invisible hands that dictate the positioning of political movements and economic chaos, success and failure and all the in-between it is a combination of liberating and all together frustrating. Strangely liberating in the sense that one is led to feel as if the weight of the actual ability to influence is taken off one’s shoulders as the ultimately have no real effect or say in the fate of their future while this is frustrating because it is human nature to feel the need to control the environment around them. I have studied this man, his company and the organizations that he works with and again am angered by the obscene control that one man can have over an international population. I am constantly steaming with emotional rage when I research these back room, closed door meetings where in an hour an agenda is set that will affect my children’s future, my life and the lives of those around me. What gives them the right? How does this happen where we lose control so fast with no fight from the public?

Part of me wants to give up and throw in the towel, the other part of me longs to be part of this illuminated assemblage of those who have stepped up to take control and bring a structure that unites the political and economic elite in today’s ever changing domain. So many times I’ve found myself sitting down to put together an article exposing this Illuminati group as puppet masters, evil doers and all together self-appointed gods of men but when this emotion driven ’cause’ is interrupted with the reality that these men are the oversight for out of control, power hungry political groups and econo-corporate monopoly junkies I can’t pick a position to guide the tone of the article.

We are angered by the power and influence that these men have over us but seriously, where would we be without them? Where would our economy be without men to step in with the instant legislative control to keep economies moving or to keep one particular political organization from turning our country into a principality controlled by a dictator? At the end of the day I think my real desire is to be part of the process and to be the overseer of the overseers and it all comes down to ‘control’. Isn’t that really what you want? This article will be the first of many as I am able to accumulate more documentation and facts on these organizations that tower over us from on high. Stay tuned…

Want to find out more about Illuminati, you can also find out more at here as my research uncovers more information we will continue to make up pubic.

There are countless obstacles to growing one’s company: slow economy, minimal sales, lack of branding and a corporate structure built on sinking sand, just to name a few. Many times a company hits a roadblock in growth because a competitor is too organized and too strategic to leave any portion of the marketplace unclaimed.

Sometimes, if you’ve waited too long to respond to the actions of a competitor it’s too late, throw in the towel and move on, you’ve lost. Other times there is still ample opportunity to rebound. The objective in this case would be to inject chaos, confusion and communication blockades along the path of the opposition.

The world of propaganda and chaos can pull you down into the underbelly of dirty tactical purgatory so it is important to get in and get before it affects the longevity of your corporate position in a negative branding sense. First, to keep from direct association by the public of your involvement in this campaign your actions must be indirectly facilitated (no one can know you’re involved). The best cat’s paw for this are local competitors in your market place that could use a helping hand to paralyze certain aspects of your targets corporate model. You may want to offer assistance to the most verbal and dirty of local competitors by way of marketing collateral that pursues the customer base of your competitor. Offer better rates, better services, better terms whatever, just get the clients thinking about their options. This serves many purposes. It confuses the seemingly, calm and organized client retention model of your target, the smaller competitor takes the heat and liability and this chaos process is scalable to the extent you could go to each of the smaller competitors in your locality and do the exact same thing.

Once this is done, you can count on the target’s infrastructure to start coming apart at the seams, slowly so you want to help it along. The first thing companies do when times get tough is pass the blame which depletes the cohesive nature of an otherwise solid company. This is when you want to start pricking the company with rumors and recruiting calls. Start with the salesman and work up to the sales manager. Sales are the lifeblood to any organization. No sales, no money. Recruit sales agents when you can. Have a local executive recruiting firm do this for you and make it aggressive. You want the sales agent and all their contacts. Some executives will come over and some will not. For those who do not, give them a little baggage in the form of gossip to take back to your target to get the rumor mill started. Rumors are like a cancer and will eat away at an entity like corrosive rust. When a sales executive turns you down, pass his name and info to the smaller local competitors so that they can take their turn to try to recruit them. Whether he goes with one of them or not isn’t the issue, the agenda is to poison the organization, not kill it. Confuse the management.

After the above has been done move to the financial side. After the sales, the financial department of an organization is most critical. These paper-pushers are always upset with their lot in life and their employer will typically personify the epitome of what has gone wrong so feed on that. plant seeds of discontent in the minds of these unstable desk jockeys. Find out where they have drinks after work, buy them a round, become friends, tell them that you’d be happy to ‘hook them up’ with a job at your company or a local competitor. The feeling that they have options will induce an artificial sense of confidence that will only last as long as their relationship with you is intact. You’re the guy that tells them how they are worth more than what they are getting, they can do better etc.

Usually, this will do the trick. Keep the above going as long as you can and it will slowly eliminate your largest competitor as a threat and you can dip in and claim your rightful position in the market place. Sometimes you’ll need to run though the above cycle a few times for optimal affect but the above process will always have an impact as long as you are in control.

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When I go to political functions or functions that claim to have the who’s who in attendance I find it fascinating to stand back and watch people interact. Politicians and power CEOs always stick to surface conversations, upstarts converse while looking over the shoulder of their conversation partner waiting for the opportunity to dump them and move onto someone with more influence. I could watch this interaction for ours and speculate with friends where we believe the targets of our conversation to be in their professional and pedigree evolution.

One thing that these people don’t realize is that those to which they’ve chosen to kneel down and bask beneath glorious rays of influence are typically just pawns with prestigious public labels being controlled by other supremacies. Here are the facts. Upstarts and wannabes will pick the face to an organization (political or corporate) for their association to grow their career and raise their social circle pedigree but the truth is, behind this puppets are those who whisper in the ear, spin webs of control, and sway with their money and ‘real power’.

I have yet to find a true puppet master comfortable to be in the public eye. It is easier to step back and dictate the moves of pawns streamlined by the upstart’s natural instinct to voluntarily be controlled by their betters. Most people, when it comes down to it, are content with the illusion of influence as long as they are the center of the public’s idea of power.

Case study: When I have a client in the process of globalization it is important to get them built into legislation that is being put up for vote. Whether it’s the USA or Europe, I never communicate with the politician directly, that’s a waste of time, instead I go to his handlers. When I say handlers I don’t mean his campaign manager, assistant or any of the traditional ‘blockers’. I go where the money is, because once you find out who funds his campaign with capital and votes, everything is easy from there. Congressmen, Senators, Governors and Mayors of large cities are placed in this position to be a talking head, a willing hand puppet to special interest groups that will flip the bill for the campaign and make sure that the votes are in place to be re-elected, as long as the political figure continue to play ball and stick to the agenda.

To the uninformed and uninitiated, the apex to the pyramid of power is usually represented by the localized face to a political organization (Republican, Democrat etc) but here are three powers that influence everything this individual does. Power is dictated by moneymen, lobbyists and special interest groups. If you have money to donate the most it can get you is a favor or a letter for your kid to get into private school, but the power, the absolute power in politics is social influence and the ability to bring with you, an ocean of voters, turn-key and ready to go. Try to find one conservative republican politician in the south that isn’t backed by the Southern Baptist Convention or Christian Coalition.

The capacity to provide votes and a ’cause’ type following can also be applied to the business world. When we set up strategic alliances, recruit board members or CEOs the main criteria at the end of the day is money and votes defined as: capital raise for previous organizations and the increase of revenues during their time with their previous company. As for ‘votes’, in the corporate world that would be termed ‘alliances’, support that will be turnkey for my client if we take this executive, board member or alliance on. What does their direct contact portfolio look like? Who will they bring through the door that will offer an instant benefit for my client’s company?

Money + alliances = Power. If you are trying to establish yourself as a power broker in the political or corporate realm you don’t need to actually have the money, just access to it. Access can be defined as direct parlay to those who cut the checks and the influence to get them to move when the time is right. Influence, alliances, voters are easy for those who are natural networks. Talk little, do more. Have a plan as to what you are trying to do. Decide what you are trying to influence and build your network from there.

Don’t start from scratch trying to put together a group of followers, instead, lobby the individual organization management or figureheads. Start brokering power among these groups, make introductions but always leave just enough out so that they need to call you when they need something. From here you should be able to build a solid power base of influence.

Don’t come across as too eager. Instead, get to know these individuals in a calm, easy manner, research them before you initiate contact and even your first contact can’t seem intentional (you may want to ‘run into them’ at you’re local tennis club or golf club and strike up some conversation etc.). Then during conversation make a mental note of the topics and their ‘needs’ and from their needs you’ll know how to refer and network them. Ask nothing in return, ever! Instead, the contact and affiliation is all you are trying to accomplish here. Building your organization of influence in this way will rapidly get you where you want to be without the learning curve of catering to the wrong people.

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The objective of today’s CEO is survival; survival in terms of enterprise position. The CEO has to pick up the shattered remnants left behind by the lies and failures of elected officials and institutions. Today’s senior executive needs to be a congressman, judge, mayor and priest all rolled up into one. The livelihood of one’s employees/constituency depends on the expansion tactics, emotional stamina, intellectual foresight and willingness to enter into an economic cage brawl to protect the company, shareholders and employees that depend on the entity’s survival for monetary sustenance.

Surround yourself with the most proven advisers you can find as you expand and go public. Recruit guerrilla networking maniacs to set up strategic alliances to grow your company into new areas. Expand when competitors expect you to roll up and die. Keep in touch with shareholders. Communicate with newsletters, email, press release and via expert panel interviews on TV and radio.

Step up and take your position at the apex of the influence pyramid of your industry by demonstrating your expert status with podcasts, ipod and ipad information applications, webinars and a solid blog. Give the market what it wants, free information. Make ‘how to’ videos, write informative articles. Educate the public and lead them to your company for facilitation. Always promise low and deliver in a way that is beyond the expectations of the customer and shareholder.

In every environment there are leaders and followers. The leaders will each have a flock. Do your research and initiate communication with these shepherds. Show them the advantages to coming down your path and the rest will take care of itself. Win/win relationships always yield possibilities for capitalization.

Seek out board or advisory positions with inter-industry entities and set up powerful alliances where you can share the weight of publicity and merge distribution channels. Get to know your legislative representation. Find out what bills they are sponsoring and co-sponsoring and offer expert input and cooperation for legislation having to do with your industry. Once you’ve achieved a relationship or mention in a bill, publicize it. Become the face to a movement.

Lastly, do some good! Get involved at the grass roots level and change people’s lives. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, put together a company scholarship to help hardworking seniors go to college, coordinate with your employees to volunteer at nonprofit events and of course you’ll put this interaction through the regular publicity channels to set the standard for your locality as well as your industry.

People no longer believe in their congressman, senator, president or prime minister. These positions are filled by do nothing power enthusiasts. C-level executives step up and step forward. The road will be difficult and challenging to navigate but in these times we need leaders who see the bigger picture and are willing to carry the torch and lead.

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