Tactician posers, self-proclaimed intellectuals and do nothing politicians sit around tables and prognosticate while they construct sure fail processes out of decks of cards and hide behind the guns of big business when the structure comes crashing down.
The silent reclusive strategy formulators that bring success to chaos (always placed three inches too far to the left and out of the photo hogged by publicity hungry political figures starving for positive press) are aligning themselves and stepping out of the shadows in into instant power positions where they will begin to capitalize off of their contacts, tactical processes and staggering abilities to deliver virtually instant results for any qualified region or private sector contract engaged.
Perfect case in point, James Scott, one of the premier economic revitalization strategists on the planet and longtime CEO of boutique firm Princeton Corporate Solutions will be going public with an new corporate identity and ‘take no prisoners’ agenda for pure global domination with a focus on private sector economic turnaround.
Purposely staying below the radar, Scott will roll out as an OTCBB company (not sure what their symbol will be) with the intention to rapidly qualify for the NASDAQ as this companies capitalization and asset accumulation are expected to explode through the roof, fast!
Considering himself a political strategist first and economic strategies consultant second, there has never been a one – two punch of this nature in the history of global economic strategies and corporate positioning. The last person to commingle political affiliation, powerful influence, global economics and private sector capitalization was JP Morgan. Sure others have tried, but none have succeeded with such distinct results.
The concept is simple, unadulterated supremacy and nothing less will suffice. Power is accumulated and centralized using the following method: enter an economically depressed region, hand pick the most promising players (corporate and political), network them together, cultivate those relationships, take large, yet struggling, employers and show them how to adapt to the times while simultaneously delivering on financial promises that will expedite success.
There you have it, the formula for power, domination and unbridled capitalization and no one does it like James Scott. I will be adding to my series on global power players in the near future so check back in about two weeks.
Watch the news with ‘news readers’ spewing hearsay and agenda driven content with fractional truths or attend a lecture from an ‘esteemed scholar’ who’s made a study of global economics and claims to have originated formulaic solutions that will enhance international trade for prosperous political relations. To the mainstream the above represent the upper echelon of intellectual precision with a broad scope of knowledge that would be far too intimidating to question so even if the viewer is unsure of the concepts being claimed as fact most people wouldn’t engage these individuals in a debate because most people take the path of least resistance and just move on rather than challenge those the establishment have claimed as field experts.
Have you ever wondered about those who have the intellectual capacity to dominate a conversation with these people? Haven’t you ever wanted to see one of these so called experts get his butt handed to him in a debate with the humiliation that would damage his ability to stand in front of a room and lecture with such untested confidence? I believe I have come across an individual that could step into any university, political forum or televised debate on economics and crush anyone that tried to test him.
I’m an MBA student at Penn State and was recently in NYC and met a friend who teaches at Columbia for dinner at the Waldorf Astoria’s Bull and Bear Steakhouse. We were chatting over drinks and catching up on the latest gossip when my attention was drawn to a table where the volume had been gradually escalating and the conversation seemed to take a turn. There were five older gentlemen, gray hair, $3,000 suits, power broker and robust bank account types. The argument was actually getting heated to a degree which should have been alarming to the restaurant manager and I began to wonder why no one was going over to break it up. We didn’t have to speculate as to the occupations of these men as I soon heard on waiter say to another, ‘Those are the guys with the European Union and World Bank, you can’t even get near the table with a cavity search how exactly am I supposed to ask them to quiet down if their security stops me before I can even get close to the table?’.
Just then another gentlemen walked into the room and towards the table, no one stopped him and he stood behind the loudest of the group, placed his hands on the man’s shoulders and said in a calm voice, “Let’s keep it civil gents” at that time there was pure silence and they quickly made a place for him at the table. OK, this is where it began to get strange, I mean flip side of the universe strange. First, this guy was less than half the age of anyone at the table, he couldn’t have been more than 34 or 35 years old but the silence and absolute focus that these men of influence gave to every word that came out of his mouth was shocking.
Who could be so young to demand such respect and attention from such senior power players? I couldn’t take my eyes off of him and I began to hone in and listen. The conversation was centered on EU and IMF issues for the Mediterranean region, the unstable Euro, US relations in Asian and other topics that demanded a superior comprehension of the most complicated forms of economics. My friend and I just sat there along with the rest of the room, with dropped jaws, gawking eyes and zeroed in ears. He was so calm and, well cool! Yes, a cheesy clich description but, my God, he was smooth, the most complicated terms and concepts were just rolling off of his tongue with such mastered fluency. I couldn’t breathe because the sound of my breath would hinder by ability to hear his next words. The verbal deliver, the intellectual intonation and vocabulary, the polished appearance and the depth in his eyes as he spoke made him the God of the room. The crazy thing is, I was so enveloped in the intelligence, the youth and the unbridled aura of sex appeal that I don’t even remember what he actually said until the end when it was clear they were wrapping things up and he said, “This, gentlemen is what I mean by Zeitgeist economics. You see, the positioning and strategies have been implemented, influence is in all the right places, I say we move forward in an expedited manner” then one of his colleagues said, “Let’s reconvene at my suite in an hour” then, they got up and walked out. I’m not the kind of person to ask for autographs or introduce myself out of the blue to a complete stranger but I have never wanted to get inside of the personal space box of someone so bad but I was completely paralyzed. I still regret it. I’m constantly running it through my mind how I could have stopped him, given him my card, gotten his, followed him, whatever.
When I left I asked the manager, more specifically who they were, he looked up at me and the waiter punching in the order on the computer behind him stopped and looked at his boss for the response and he just said, “Miss, there are some things you just don’t ask or answer because you never know who is listening”, I pressed him, “At least tell me who that younger man was? What’s the big deal? They’re gone! This is ridiculous; just tell me who he was!” He shook his head and walked away, leaving me standing there looking like an idiot. I was insulted and now I was angry and just as I was about to pull the ‘Let me talk to your boss’ transition an older women put her hand on my arm and said, “My dear, he’s afraid to answer you because he’ll lose his job instantly if he breaks security protocol for the hotel but I can tell you who that young gentleman is.” I leaned in as her voice range fell to a whisper, “That was James Scott; he’s a consultant of sorts.” Leaning in closer she continued, “I know this because my husband worked for the Federal Reserve and they would always talk about him, they would call him ‘The Rogue’ because he is like an economic mercenary. That’s all I know. He’s like a strategist for governments.” And with that she walked away. I just stood there and looked at my friend and then looked at the room and literally all eyes were on me and they all had the same look of shock, envy and wonder.
We walked around town for about an hour but my mind was so full of questions I just wanted to get back to my hotel room to do a Google search on this guy. My girlfriend and I exchanged goodbyes and I got back to my hotel as quickly as I could. I spent hours on the web reading article after article about him. Yes, James Scott, he’s an economic strategies consultant he has a small yet obscenely powerful consulting firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions. His contacts and power base sprawls the planet and into the backrooms of the most elite circles of finance and politics. Strange thing, there are literally thousands of articles that mention him, exclusively talk about him and that are written or co-authored by him but not one single photo anywhere. I have to tell you, I will never forget this experience. I felt as though I stepped into one of those conspiracy, ‘New World Order’ type things.
The truth is, there are invisible hands that navigate us through the maze of this human existence and there are things we control in our lives and things that are out of our control. What I witnessed that night will be with me forever and I’ll think about him every time I flip on CNN or MSNBC and see a self-proclaimed expert talking about commerce and world trade and I know that no matter how established or how fluent they are with their concepts or how many books they’ve written or which prestigious fellowships he/she has that there is still someone whose knowledge is so vast, his influence so dominating and complete that those who know him will only mention his name in whispers and those who have seen the results of his capabilities and of his existence but have never been introduced only refer to him as ‘The Rogue’.
Whether it’s putting out the flames of a recent corporate crisis or defamer, the almost impossible attempts at taking your company public or the ongoing drama of creating global alliances to expedite entity expansion the success and failure of these challenges comes down to the CEO’s unwillingness to lose.
The mentality and stubborn nature that makes the CEO the company punk with too much attitude to be approachable by sub management is the same ego that will save the company from the wrath of despair. The arrogant, seemingly self-centered mindset of the upper echelon senior executive stems from either insecurity or a man/woman on a mission with their roots firmly planted and unwilling to deviate from the goal’s set for the company.
A cocky, informed, pompous company president with a track record of success should be free from board intervention and founder interruption so long as they are yielding results from these actions. Think about it, who is going to back a wavering CEO or someone that is willing to bend to pressure? To the contrary, you want a tough minded, intellectual brawler ready to go to battle at the drop of a hat to preserve your company’s vision and marketplace position. Who wants a pushover in a position that demands mental stamina and 24 hour alertness?
Obviously the company leader needs to have a personality that acts as targeted gravity to those around him; they should be a personable individual that has an aura when they walk into the room.
For example, James Scott, CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions Inc.; one of the global economy’s most sought after consultants for regional economic turn-around, governmental strategies and IPO facilitation, all falling under the umbrella of an economic strategies firm that is unmatched and unrivaled on the international globalization scene. When reading about his track record you’d expect a 65 year old executive, gray hair and Warren Buffet-ish in demeanor. The reality is he’s a 30 something kid with a shaved head, muscular physique and a glare that could melt a hold in the Berlin wall. He’d rather tell you to take your investment capital and stuff it where the ’sun don’t shine’ before he asks you twice to invest in a venture. He is renowned for simply getting up and walking out of a room if the client’s attempting to adjust his model for expansion or redevelopment, yes he’s that good. His cocky, unwaveringly confident aura is the precise reason there is a 9 month backlog of countries, regional governments and corporate clients waiting in line to work with him.
It would be one thing to have this arrogance and not have a track record or ability to fulfill obligations but this cocky play stems from one of the most successful restructuring histories in modern economics.
So next time you complain that your CEO is a jerk or too difficult to vent to, remember the fact that without this tough exterior your leader would crack under pressure and bend too often thus your company would have a shortened lifespan and you’d be in the market hunting for a job.
It’s almost unfathomable to think that nearly 100 public companies were founded and/or are run by CEO’s under 40 and what’s even more unbelievable is that the wind behind the sails of most of these companies is also a kid under 40. James Scott, 35 year old CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions, now based in midtown Manhattan is one of the most sought after strategists on the face of the planet for crisis management, globalization and IPO facilitation.
When I was in my mid 30’s I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, these men and women are changing the world, creating jobs and stepping in to offer solutions that are slowly turning around the US economy and the global market place.
James Scott is not only one of the highest paid globalization tacticians and corporate strategists on the map, retainers start at $35,000 with a six month waiting list, but now his influence has moved into the political sector where he consults in the MENA region helping countries with free trade issues as well as European countries for economic turnaround.
“We will meet with the political leadership in an area, identify the issues and concerns and will usually apply a corporate business model of strategic alliance facilitation at multiple levels to initiate the turnaround” says Scott, “we then proceed to make introductions and formulate partnerships between their leadership and US politicians and companies interested in a win/win relationship that can begin to start yielding fruit expediently.”
Too shy for cameras, he’ll participate on a radio expert panel or magazine but you won’t find his picture anywhere. He simply doesn’t allow for his picture to be taken. “I’m much more of a behind the scenes kind of guy” explains Scott, “I enjoy my privacy and have nothing to prove. I just get in and do what I do, that’s it. I don’t need to be on TV or have my face in the papers.”
I had to laugh when I read that Scott turned down a front page article about he and his company in USA Today because it required his photo. Try explaining that mentality to Donald Trump or Malcolm Forbes. It’s a new era in economics. The establishment has been replaced by young, vibrant powerbrokers worried less about fame and more about creating solutions. Something tells me that if these kids ran our government, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in.
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.
For investors, that once in a life time opportunity is always out there happening for someone else. There is always a story about a guy that got in on an IPO for a software company that turned him into an overnight millionaire or that next big bio-tech IPO for a company that has the closest thing to a cure for Alzheimer’s that the industry has ever seen, they did a small pre IPO raise and then closed out the offering and now there are talks of a buyout, again overnight millionaires will be made.
Are these investors exceptional in terms of their research capabilities and knee deep in investment banking contacts that give them insider info on the down low? Most likely they did two simple things the right way. First, they made themselves available for opportunity by subscribing to IPO alerts from reputable firms. If you’re quick to action you could find yourself in the middle of an obscenely profitable venture. Second it’s the luck of the draw for those who are willing to put themselves out there for a little acceptable risk for the chance of big reward. Obviously blatant risks like Forex, pink sheet pump and dumps and investing in pie in the sky concepts that don’t have a chance in heck of actually working are for the few adrenalin junky millionaires who thrive off of the rush of, um well, losing.
If, hypothetically you get access to a possible jackpot IPO in the rare ‘Pre IPO’ stage what is your next move? Who do you call to help you with research and how do you evaluate the company on the spot based off of the prototypical PPM? First, if it’s your money it’s fine to get a second opinion but you need to know what to look for in a viable investment.
Here is how you do a spot audit for stability in an investment in the Pre IPO phase: 1. Look for a solid corporate structure consisting of well pedigreed professionals in the C-level positions, strong and diversified inter-industry board of directors, secondary advisory board, strategic alliances and an equity/share distribution mechanism that is organized and compliant and a share price based off of a solid valuation by a reputable firm.
2. Are they in a growth industry? When you look at the founders resume in the business plan are they serial entrepreneurs with a track record of modest success but minimal focus? Or has their career been targeted and focused on one single direction? You want to professional that has worked his entire life honing his skills and pedigree for this particular industry and this on opportunity and he’s all in and there is minimal possibility of pump and dump.
3. What is their 12 month strategy post public? What is their growth strategy? If they think they can grow organically they’re in for a shocker. They have to show a plan for post public growth through acquisition and subsidiary merger. What targets do they have lined up and what will they bring to the company which will ultimately affect your share price and overall investment. Who does their legal? What is their post public market creation strategy and who is their contracted investor relations firm and what is their track record for dealing with companies in this particular industry genre? What is their globalization strategy for rapid and expedient but controlled growth?
4. Are they politically connected? What strategies firm are they working with to gain global and incremental political and legislative support? What bills are they mentioned in and who are the politicians that are sponsoring and cosponsoring this legislation and what type of photo opps and press is being set up to make this company the face to the industry?
Never invest with borrowed funds or capital that you depend on for retirement or necessity. Only invest with capital you’re not afraid to lose (this goes for any and all investments). Getting involved in pre IPO opportunities can be very rewarding for the informed, accredited investor. Do your research and make yourself available to the right circles of influence that can act as hotbeds for opportunity. Surround yourself with industry insiders and ask lots of questions.
Deprivation of the corrupt and impure emotion that is an element of the ego is the only true path to the objectivity needed by the professional executive. Cutting off the connection between emotions and the facial micro expressions that are a direct result of your subconscious response instinct will enable you to conduct a meeting, interview or professional conversation without offering up the primary body language as a form of intelligence collateral by those you’re communicating with.
Body language and the micro expressions feed the necessary ammo to the intellectual interrogator that keeps them in control of the conversation, the conversation’s outcome and control over you in general. A firm, confident expression and body position/posture will enforce your authority position and keep the opposition guessing as they try to analyze the psychological undertone behind your words.
Only give into allowing body position adjustments and facial expression indicators when you are trying to use these functions to enunciate your verbal communication. Communication is conducted first and foremost by body position, posture, hand position, foot position, hand shake positioning, chin position and eye focus indicators, the second communication mechanism most relevant is the automatic reflex of the facial response to a question before a verbal response is given.
Next is the silence between the prompt and the response, the last one to satisfy themselves by breaking the silence will always have the upper hand finally the verbal component is the least effective as this is usually the action that destroys the strategy of retaining the upper hand.
Verbal expression should be a combination of short yet powerful responses via command and authority over vocabulary and the art of intonation to underline and exclamation key words that prompt the subconscious mind of the opponent to absorb the ideas and concepts behind the words that are brought to the forefront of the mind with intonation indicators.
Look at a conversation as the opportunity to plant seeds and post hypnotic cues in the mind of your target that can be triggered in later conversations. The combination of overall body language, vocabulary and intonation act as needles that inject an idea and motivating drivers that prompt the individual to act when stimulated to do so.
Control over one’s environment is rather simple when the above strategies are put into place and made part of your complete communication in any and all professional settings.
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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Political and corporate strategies merge and in the end the same ‘chaos injection’ and ‘roadblock’ mechanism of controlling the self-proclaimed ‘uncontrollable’ parallel each other when strategies of war and economics come together as the invisible hands that can reach in and attach strings to the soul making the populace the marionette of agenda driven managers. Control is the name of the game when setting up a process to maintain and guide a group, individual or movement along the path desired.
Implementing strategies that yield the desired outcome comes down to the action of setting up roadblocks and challenges to cater to man’s innate motivation to take the path of least resistance and minimal effort. Catering to the ‘ego’ via subconscious triggers in the news, local, national and international leadership including religious leaders is how control is established quickly and efficiently.
There are two basic types of people that should be the center of focus when implementing this strategy for the fastest results, those who wear a designer label on their chest and those who wear their religion on their sleeve. Each of these groups are, in reality, in search of identity, legitimacy, inclusion in a concept larger than themselves, a voice and by projecting a ‘brand’ larger than themselves they are attempting to gain the personal level of legitimacy that the brand, as a whole, has in their immediate environment.
Another reality of the above groups is that by blatantly causing a reaction in the population around them with their ‘brand cause’ they are making an attempt to convince themselves of the solidity and legitimacy of their belief.
Those who either don’t wear deliberate representations of brands or bring up the concept of their religious curiosity are typically more reserved, self-assured and less easy to bypass the subconscious critical faculty. The former two groups should be at the forefront of one’s focus if they are to truly step in and control the actions of those who are, well, asking to be controlled.
Engineering a roadblock system is actually much easier to do than one may imagine. A master of this method is the United States government. The establishment makes little people feel important by their ‘get out and vote’ and ‘audacity of hope’ propaganda campaigns that convince the masses that their individual ballot counts in the critical presidential election and they their vote can change the course of the election. A perfect example of this is the Florida incident between Bush and Kerry. The media convinced the public that the election outcome came down to a few votes in a few towns in the single state of Florida, when, in reality this was far from reality as it is the Electoral College that elects the president and each state is strategically issued a certain number of votes that, when tactics are implemented properly via media propaganda, Sunday sermons concept ’seeds’ and university ‘I’m searching for my identity’ activism perpetuated by agenda driven university idealists. The entire ordeal in Florida injected scores of post hypnotic cues and mind seeds that can be triggered down the road for a desirable outcome which will be crucial as the government is gradually taking away rights with the Patriot Act agenda. Think about it, Americans are giving away their constitutional rights by the boatload and not a single peep from anyone on the right or left. For those who step up to bring attention to what’s going on, there are a series of roadblocks set in-place like a crisis management template that takes away the legitimacy of the source and limits their access to publicity via media control.
The same can be done with a corporation. If I had a penny for every propaganda and crisis management contract that I’ve been offered, I’d be able to pay off the national deficit (ok that’s a far stretch but you get the point). Obviously as a boutique firm we only choose the projects that cater to our direct skill set so we pay attention to corporate genre, industry niche, C level pedigree, board organization and pedigree and what the potential client is actually trying to achieve. For the most part, though they are afraid to say it, they want mind control over clients, potential clients and shareholders. That’s really what they want to achieve when they make statements like, “we need a way to get our information to the public in a way that is conducive to investor confidence and client satisfaction” or “we need a crisis management template put together for problem one, problem two and potential problem three so that our stock doesn’t plummet and so clients to stop buying”. What they want, what they are really after, is the ability to take an idea and distribute this idea in a way that enters into the mind and emotion like a multi-pronged fishing hook that once swallowed is virtually impossible to remove. But how does the company get the public to swallow? Easy, it’s like giving candy to a baby, literally.
Though a majority of the population believes in the ‘idea’ of free will, the reality is that the end result of their free will is usually the direct result set in motion by an outside source that sees the individual as a target to control. Predicting the outcome of the so called free will is really just a path with roadblocks that guide the individual through a maze with the smell of ‘personal gain’ and ‘ego satisfaction’ leading them to the outcome that was set in motion by the tacticians and strategist who have been charting their path with road blocks and encouraging movement with emotional drivers via media, religion, education and peer pressure.
This strategy can be applied to any business, political campaign or agenda. It’s just a matter of having the proper support mechanism in place to influence the pawn.
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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