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Amitabh Bachchan Blog -the Power of Blogging -Reiterated

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If you are from India or having something to do with India – you will know one person for sure: Amitabh Bachchan. He’s a legendary actor, who’s been there for decades now, and continues to produce great movies – often with a strong social message.

What’s this got to do with MyOrbit and Online Business? A lot! He has very recently started his own blog, through which he aims to share his views on various things impacting his life and industry, and because he has earned the stature – about the society at large as well.

Here’s the link: Amitabh Bachchan Blog

You can consider Amitabh Bachchan as a company himself (in India, he’s called BigB), and he has just started using his blog as a powerful communication channel with his stakeholders, which considering his profession are: fans worldwide and fellow industry professionals, and of course media. And like true bloggers, he has started answering questions as well, which will ensure the most people become regular visitors.

As we have been advising companies — both early-stage and established — a blog presents a powerful self-controlled media that you can use to share updates of important projects (upcoming films in case of BigB), respond to customer queries (fans in this case), and media reports (where necessary).

And here’s his post from today: Day 4 Blog

Okay, while the post titles are not really descriptive – he has just started using this medium – the content is great – and that’s what really matters because the readers know him already!

But if you are a start-up or if people don’t know you yet, then it will help to write more descriptive titles, because that will then show your blog posts in relevant online search-engines like Google, and bring people to your blog.

If you are serious about business relationships, you must be running a blog. The benefits far outweigh the efforts involved. Because the voice of business leaders reaches those they actually need to communicate with.

So, if you have any questions in setting-up or running your blog, please feel free to ask us. We have helped dozens of professionals and companies already. No, there’s no fee on it. We would be happy to set you up online in the best possible way.

cheers,
Shankar
on behalf of MyOrbit Team

Leadership

Leadership For Lawyers, Second Edition

This book answers the important question raised by U.S. Judge James Barr. The question is:

I am delving into whether there is support for the hypothesis that leadership skills developed and implemented by individual lawyers (even when not serving in bar organizations) can significantly impact and influence an entire legal community in such areas as (1) improved ethical and civility standards and performance, (2) more effective assimilation of new lawyers into the legal community, and (3) improved relations between bench and bar. In other words, I am at least curious about whether development of leadership skills by individual lawyers can positively impact the quality of lawyering in a legal community — even when working outside the institutional (i.e., bar organization) context.

This book answers Judge Barr’s question in the affirmative.

The second edition of Leadership for Lawyers was published in December 2007. It convincingly makes the case that leadership (and therefore leadership development training and coaching) offers solutions to many of the problems and challenges facing the profession, including high levels of attorney and client dissatisfaction, growing economic pressures on law firms, increasing lack of civility, and outdated law firm governance practices. Rubenstein, who was a trial lawyer for more than twenty-five years, has a good grasp of the challenges and explains clearly how the profession will benefit from widespread leadership development.

The basis premise of Leadership for Lawyers is that “when lawyers and all those who work in the legal profession begin to understand the basic theories of leadership and are better trained in the field of leadership development, they will become better leaders, will provide better legal services, and will create better law firms and legal organizations. As a consequence, the reputation of lawyers and the legal profession as a whole will improve.” The thesis is exhaustively examined and proved throughout the book.

Rubenstein devotes some space to leadership theory and to the relationship between ethics, natural law, and leadership, as well as to how leadership development for lawyers might be structured. Recognizing that leadership theory is such a broad topic that it would be impossible to cover the field in a single book, lawyers who read through the sections on “Leadership Behavioral Styles” and “Ninety Brand of Leadership” will get a taste of leadership theory but not a firm grounding. The bibliography, however, includes a number of classic books on leadership that will provide a deeper understanding of how leaders may develop.

Notably, Rubenstein makes a significant contribution on theory by proposing the “leader of leaders” theory of leadership: “Leaders of followers are mainly problem solvers. Leaders of leaders establish platforms and seek to create an environment so that followers can act as leaders themselves, solve their own problems, and make excellent decisions consistent with the platform that the leader of leaders sets.” This theory, which Rubenstein traces back to the Book of Exodus, should speak to lawyers particularly. It also illustrates the multiple levels of leadership that are present in the profession and that leadership depends on action and attitude, not merely a title.

I don’t agree with everything in the book, of course. The chapter titled Women, Leadership, and the Legal Profession, written by Laura Rothacker, is a good addition to the discussion of women in law overall, but one sentence in it literally (I’m embarrassed to admit) had me screaming out loud in frustration and anger. That sentence is: “Women should be aware that the focus on billable hours represents an institutional form of discrimination against their achieving success and leadership roles.” I’ll address this elsewhere one of these days. Even that assertion, however, doesn’t dim my enthusiasm for Leadership for Lawyers, though it did prompt me to read rather more critically than I might have otherwise.

Leadership for Lawyers is an important book for lawyers seeking ways to grow themselves and other lawyers because it establishes conclusively why leadership matters for lawyers. It should be mandatory reading for law firm managing partners and partners in charge of professional development and highly encouraged reading for other lawyers and law students who aspire to do well in and for the profession and for their clients. I highly recommend it.

Julie A. Fleming, J.D., A.C.C. provides attorney development coaching for associates and partners, and she is a speaker for law firm retreats and workshops. Topics on which she coaches and speaks include professional development, business development, leadership development, career management, and work/life integration. Julie holds a coaching certificate from the Georgetown Leadership Coaching program and holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation. She is certified to administer the DISC(r) assessment, the Leadership Circle Profile 360, and the Leadership Culture Survey. Julie writes extensively on matters of interest to lawyers on the Life at the Bar Blog at http://www.LifeAtTheBar.com/blog

To learn more, to subscribe to Julie’s weekly email newsletter Leadership Matters for Lawyers, or to request a complimentary consultation with Julie, please visit http://www.LifeAtTheBar.com or call her at 800.758.6214.

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How To Flush A Kidney Stone

Kidney stones are formed in the kidney due to the presence of stone forming elements in the urine. There are four different types of kidney stones – calcium, uric acid, struvite and cystine stones. The cystine stones are formed because of hereditary reasons and there is no cause for the formation of this type of stones.

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Sales Coaching

Do You Make These Mistakes Building Your Sales Based Business?

You are a business owner. You succeed when you help others buy your services. It sounds so simple until you actually try selling.

After some bruised ego even hurt feelings you discover it’s brutal out there. So you decide you’re going to have to learn how to sell. Now some of you were told you’d be trained to sell by the people who taught you the skills and knowledge you need to provide your services. However, when you tried to do it the way you were shown you found it didn’t quite work like you led to believe.

Are you a little like Hiram and his red shirt? There’s a children’s book about a man named Hiram whose favorite shirt was a red shirt. Hiram wore the shirt a lot and as it began to show its wear Hiram took it upon himself to patch and repair his shirt.

Hiram had a great attitude. Whenever a new hole or tear appeared Hiram cheerfully patched and sewed his shirt. It wasn’t long before Hiram’s shirt didn’t fit so well. As he took a little from here to make a little for there his shirt got too small, and it didn’t cover his body like it did when it was new.

Eventually through some encouragement by others Hiram decided it was time to buy a new shirt. He was very pleased by how the new shirt felt and looked. He realized he’d waited too long to get his new red shirt.

As you struggle through sales you focus on one problematic area at a time. Then you go and get training to resolve your problems in that area. It seems like you’re making improvements when all of a sudden you have another new problematic area.

And so you continue to get “training” on one new problematic area after another. Yet somehow like Hiram’s red shirt all this “training” doesn’t seem to fit together all that well. You seem to have parts of a shirt rather than a whole shirt.

Then you decide you’ll buy an entire “training” program confident that will fix all your sales ills. You find the “training” highly motivating, even entertaining. You’re excited about the investment you’ve made eager to put it to the test.

It’s when you’ve gone home, and put it to the test you realize all this “training” still isn’t working like you thought it would. Your “training” shirt still has some gaps and areas it isn’t covering, and now you don’t know what to do. You aren’t a whole lot better off than when you first decided you needed to get help.

How can this be? Aren’t you cut out to be a business owner? Perhaps you just can’t sell. But you have to sell because you have a business to run, and there isn’t anyone to sell your services but you.

There comes a time when you have to accept that even though you know your business and you know your service, you don’t know how to sell yourself. You have to figure out how to sell in order to survive. You didn’t learn the skill behind your service overnight, and you don’t learn through isolated events.

The best way to learn is with the help of a guide along the path. You need someone to help you understand the sales process in a way specific to service professionals. Then you need on-going help and support from that person helping you with your specific challenges and issues as they come up for you not when they’re talked about in a “program”. You my friend need a mentor coach.

I know you’re thinking coaching is too expensive. Like Hiram how much is it costing you every day in lost sales not to get the help you need so you can start turning missed opportunities into cash. You can continue to make the mistake of struggling on your own, or you can make an investment in yourself and get the help you need. The choice is yours. Will you continue to patch your business like Hiram and with his red shirt, or will you join Hiram making a decision to get the help you really need?

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Sales Coaching

When Top Sales Professionals Get Stuck – This Is What They Do

I’ll bet you think those sales professionals in the top 20% never get stuck. Well, they do just like you. The difference is in how they handle getting unstuck and how you handle it.

The sales environment is never static. When you make the mistake of thinking it is, that’s the exact moment you get hit by the proverbial truck. In most cases there are warning signals that things aren’t going the way you want them to. Top sales professionals don’t make the mistake of ignoring these signals pretending they will go away. Instead they have their radar on high alert detecting and monitoring any and all potential changes in the sales environment.

Most sales people are far more reactive than proactive. You wake up in the morning hurriedly dress and run out of the house. All day long you chase after prospects and clients allowing them to dictate what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. Unfortunately, when you’re so wrapped up in the moment you focus on symptoms mistaking those symptoms for the cause of the problem. Top sales professionals recognize that it’s far easier to react to symptoms than it is to proactively get to the source of the problem, and focus on resolving the real problem.

Whether things are really good or really bad it’s dangerous to take either situation and treat is as though it’s the real circumstance. Top sales professionals realize you have to step back and identify the facts in every situation. Pretending things are different than they really are, is a dangerous and slippery path.

Most sales professionals ask why things are happening to them. This sets you up for a victim mindset. You never want think of yourself as a victim because no one is going to come in and act as your savior. You have to be your own savior. Thus those at the top of their field ask how they can turn their current situation into the outcome they want.

When you want to increase your sales you either try to go it alone, or you turn to your peers for help. Top sales professionals turn to guides who can help them get where they want to get quicker. They don’t typically turn to their peers because their peers aren’t experts providing the help they need. Peers are often:

  • too sympathetic rather than empathetic
  • too afraid if they help you that you’ll surpass them to provide any real help
  • too narrowly focused on what everyone else does to have an innovative approach that will really make a difference for you

 

You tend to look at what your peers are doing and imitate them. Top sales professionals look at what others outside their industry are doing and ask how they can use those ideas in their business. They then adopt those ideas, adapt them to fit their business, and then act on those ideas.

You try things for a while and then abandon them when you don’t get the results you want. Top sales professionals try things they know work for others, adapt those ideas, and then consistently implement those ideas adapting them as needed until they produce the outcomes they want from those ideas. Plus they only adopt ideas that are in alignment with what they’re doing and what they’re trying to accomplish.

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