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People I Meet: Class Privilege and Non-Profit Conventions
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Monday, February 16, 2015. Class Privilege and Non-Profit Conventions. I would estimate that chairing a small convention like Pi-Con probably takes about 300-600 hours to plan for a single con, and this is a smaller convention. A larger convention likely requires much more time. I sometimes hear the attitude from people who work non-profit cons that they would never work for a "for...
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People I Meet: If They're Bored, Then You're Boring
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. If They're Bored, Then You're Boring. June 3rd, 17 days before graduation, beautiful sunny day, an hour before the end of the school day. Standing before a group of about 20 high school kids I have never met before. Teaching them about sales technique and tactics. Did I mention that my topic was sales? I know I would, but apparently I'm abnormal. So, emailed ...
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People I Meet: Did you say 'Ello'?
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Did you say 'Ello'? There's this new social media side called Ello out there. Well, there is the steel frame on which they will build Ello soon. Setting up a profile feels a little like moving into an apartment with plywood floors and no glass in the windows because it hasn't been installed yet. Posting on the Internet is public! People will read them!
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People I Meet: Seeing Is Believing... But Not Knowing
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Friday, February 27, 2015. Seeing Is Believing. But Not Knowing. The controversial dress. Science says. It's blue, by the way. You have probably seen the white (or blue) dress with gold (or black) trim. I shall start by saying that. First, let's briefly talk about the science. Wired explains it very well in this article. If we jump to having tightly held views on something which is...
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People I Meet: Put Down The Donut
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Put Down The Donut. One thing that I love about my job is that I get to see a very real cross section of middle America. Perhaps not the most flattering examples, but I get to see many of the kinds of people that you might hear about through the media who cause you to ask "do people really do that? Yes, they do. In a nation where people tell you about the 2...
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People I Meet: Management and Leadership
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. If you read management literature, you will see discussion of the difference between "management" and "leadership". Generally the implication is that management is not enough and that organizations need leadership, but there's more to it than that as I am seeing with an organization I work with. Are necessary. With only management, you have a force whic...
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People I Meet: March 2015
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. If you read management literature, you will see discussion of the difference between "management" and "leadership". Generally the implication is that management is not enough and that organizations need leadership, but there's more to it than that as I am seeing with an organization I work with. Are necessary. With only management, you have a force whic...
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People I Meet: What is Common Here May Be Innovative There
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. What is Common Here May Be Innovative There. It is said that there is nothing new under the sun. Every storyline has been written. Every idea has been developed. All that remains in rearranging old ideas into new. Sometimes, being an innovating genius is nothing more than taking a commonly known idea from one place to a new place. By day, Michael is a mild m...
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People I Meet: Uncoupling
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Sunday, August 14, 2011. As feminism increased equality, allowing women to enter lucrative careers where they could support themselves, the need to marry for economic stability almost completely left the picture. No longer would a woman need to preserve her "virtue" to trade for economic support, as she could now support herself. Interestingly, this same social progression has led ...
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People I Meet: 2014 In Review
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Michael Whitehouse: Salesman, Trainer, Educator, Speaker. My thoughts, events, and presentations. Open for Business on WBLQ. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. A ConCardia Tournament at ChessieCon this fall. This has been quite an eventful year for me. I took a shot at turning ConCardia into a real business and missed the mark. I got back into the car business. I took over a bookshop. And, of course, I crossed that great threshold of moving from not being a parent to being a parent. During 2013, ConCardia.
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