http://www.trinahoefling.com My Strategic Business Battle Ground Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:51:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the White Conference pow wow didn't gain us anything, and 3 bank leaders had the audacity to no-show. I've been watching Congress on C-Span grill bank and financial regulators and NGOs in panels with fervor, chomping their gums. I am validated that, while my own congressional representatives haven't bothered ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2009/12/white-house-financial-pow-wow-appears-toothless/ As many of my friends and colleagues know, the last 14 months of my life I have been an unpaid and reluctant part-time administrative assistant for JP Morgan Chase, which services my mortgage. I have a timeline and documentation that would bore all of us, one which I'm still working ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2009/12/does-jamie-dimon-know-how-misaligned-his-word-are-from-jpmorgan-chase-behavior/ What do you think? Very provocative Machiavellian set of principles. Provokes multiple reactions in me. Some big YES, some immediate and emotionally reactive/value-based NO and wonder simultaneously. http://www.trinahoefling.com/2009/04/48-laws-of-power/ I've been asked to do a lot of coaching and speaking lately on how I built Tennyson Gallery's patronage so quickly, as well as how I've built such long lasting business relationships. This is the basic presentation that came from those questions. Networking is the answer, and I share this for ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2009/03/making-your-net-work/ We have another book on the professional sports steroid / drugging saga.The big book distributors are buying in low volumes, according to NPR, because they believe we, the reading public, have steroid fatigue. We haven't solved the problem; we just are getting used to its being a part of athleticism. We ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2009/01/innocence-and-guilt-and-toxic-societal-air/ Happy New Year! What an interesting ride we are all having together. I have been doing so much private writing and creating that I have been neglecting my blog and networks a bit, but much is coalescing and I am confident the best is yet to come.... Many of you ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2009/01/want-to-know-what-50-entrepreneurs-know/ I've been trying to post about the financial hell and how I've never seen anything quite like this, but haven't quite hit the right way to approach the blog. I have seen big dips over the last 25 years of working with businesses. Without handing out consultant speak and giving ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2008/12/when-panic-goes-too-far/ I just got back from a Sun Microsystem demonstration  co-sponsored with the Colorado Gaming Association. We were there to explore Sun's tools that bring gaming and virtual worlds to corporate training. The audience was sprinkled with techs and programmers, though was targeted to corporate trainers. Since I write, train and ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2008/12/do-we-have-a-digital-divide-even-though-we-are-internet-connected/ A competency whose time has not only come, but with an imperative unprecedented. Not only do teams need to collaborate, so do entire industries - sectors - nations, not to mention small businesses. As a teacher, practitioner, and facilitator of collaboration, I vibrate with excitement while shivering in worry. We can do ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2008/11/collaborate-okay-huh/ Soon after the election I caught a commit made by Whoopie Goldberg, where she said something about feeling like she fully "belonged" here as an American citizen for the first time. That she could finally put down her suitcase. Her comment / commitment resounded inside me with familiar but as ... http://www.trinahoefling.com/2008/11/i-can-put-my-suitcase-down-finally/