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How To Obtain Power: The Formula For Domination

April 18th, 2011

I’ve read ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli so many times I’ve lost count. In graduate school we studied this text as the Bible to all things strategy for its tactical and strategic concepts for how to obtain leadership at the highest levels, how to manipulate people and situations for an outcome that is favorable to the underlined agenda. People will rise, people will fall but those who understand the purest concepts of power, I mean the molecular intricacies of the contributors, stabilizers and ongoing expansion of real power are able to stay in control regardless of who the public figure is to the overall strategy.

John D. Rockefeller said, “I want to own nothing but control everything”. He was a man that understood power as this is the ability to influence, capitalize and control everything without the liability of ownership. When I say liability I don’t mean just legal but also social and reputation. In a modern world legislation has been held hostage by politicians out for control but with the reverse method of what actually works. History shows that those who insist on being the face to a movement, concept or power pyramid succeed in short term power traction only and soon become the first to go as the face to a structure is typically the first to be removed when controversy hits an organization.

University intellectuals, politicians and most corporate executives lack the foundation and applicable knowledge to succeed long term in their efforts to create a legacy of power that withstands the test of time, conspiracy and upstarts who attempt a power grab with defamation. In Manhattan there is a consultant known on a first name basis to only a few but the vibrations of his invisible hand can be felt in economies that span the globe.

James Scott is lead consultant and founder for a company called Princeton Corporate Solutions. Chances are, you’ve never heard of him or his virtually invisible boutique firm but I can almost guarantee that you’re existence has been affected by decisions he’s made at the apex of the economic power pyramid. His ability for psychological profile building on targeted populations to predict buying triggers and how to implement seeds to incubate in the minds subconscious to be called on in the form of ‘cues’ is beyond what you’ll read in the confines of a text book, blog or podcast entry on iTunes and more like something out of a World War two propaganda study or CIA conspiracy file. His track record of influence is spooky, terrifying and has become my new obsession.

He has mastered the concepts that the ancients have defined and proven to be the necessities for power at a level where the control and influence is automated with strategic implementation of tactics that are formulated from emotional profiles, case history, lineage of target, economic level of the future descendants of the target and many other formulas that have labeled him the ‘New Machiavelli’ by the most elite regional economic turnaround, globalization and power broker consultants in the world.

For months I tried to find him with exhaustive web searches where I found lots of theories about him but no pictures, there are informational videos with his voice walking the viewer through obscure tangents on Regulation D and other oddities that only represent a minuscule fraction of what he actual does as a profession.

Finally, a friend of a friend’s father’s friend (or something like that) is a member of the AEI (American Enterprise Institute) and the Manhattan Institute, where coincidentally James Scott is also a member and after a few weeks I was able to secure a sit down interview with him at ‘The W’ across from the Waldorf Astoria.

Sometimes blogs can sum up the realities of meeting a person like this. I knew he was supposedly young, distinguished, articulate and those that helped me set up this meeting gave me insight as to the responses, words, body language and other things that set him off, “If you do something that makes him even slightly uncomfortable he will just get up and leave” is what everyone told me. When I met him he was sitting with two congressmen (who did not give me permission to mention them and I don’t want the baggage of making them angry so I’ll just leave it at that) who I recognized immediately from CNN and FOX. They were just drinking and relaxing. I sat down, the politicians left and there we were.

One can never be fully prepared for a meeting like this. It didn’t matter how much time and research I put into this I knew when my butt hit the chair that I was absolutely out of my league. I could feel his eyes running over my body analyzing my body language, when I spoke I knew he was listening more to my intonation, vocabulary rather than my actual ideas or questions. His eyes were deep, his face was without expression and in a room of fifty people or more I felt as if I was sitting on a chair only inches above an ocean of lava as I began to sweat.

“Mr. Scott”, I stammered, “I’ve read about you for quite some time and I have to ask you, why is it that you make yourself so difficult to get in touch with? I mean, why all the secrecy? It’s only led to conspiracies about your intentions…” I didn’t even finish my sentence because I literally ran out of air in my lungs. He leaned back, put one arm on top of the chair to his right and crossed his legs and in a matter of only a few minutes gave me an education in power and influence that defies what you’ll read in “The Prince”, “The Art of War” or any Robert Green book.

“After all the work you put into this meeting, that’s your question?” he said, “What is it that you’re trying to accomplish? What is it that you want to know?” My mind literally went blank. I couldn’t think and I couldn’t speak so I glanced down at my pad and just said the two words that I had underlined on the page, “Power and control”. He grinned and with a philosophical twist he began, “Well, power can only be had if control is established beforehand.” He continued, “I was told that you are trying to understand the concepts that lead to influence in a way that is both scalable and stable and my advice isn’t as technical as you may be anticipating so you may be disappointed.” “No, please continue” I said. “Well” he started, “control is first established when a clear cut definition of the target has been established. The intricacies of individual emotional elements that contribute to a response and then fine tuning those elements so that the outcome of the response is aligned with a desired outcome are typically the initial benchmarks for establishing control. Once this is done, you must build a psychological profile on the targets which will encompass all of the characteristics, personal history, emotions, sorrows, successes and fears that contribute to who they are.” I’ll admit, by this time I had completely lost him and the only reason can I put this information on paper is because I had a recorder in my pocket that helped me retain this wisdom.

He stopped speaking as if waiting for a response or counter to his formula but I sat there and the only words I could come up with were, “OK, why is it that you insist on staying behind the scenes? You don’t allow your picture to be taken and you only associate with a handful of people. What’s wrong with showing the public what you do? I mean why all the secrecy?” He laughed, “Well, I have a few responses to that; with exposure comes liability and with liability comes the need for explanations and with explanations the structure of real influence is lost” at this part I just remember wondering how he could have come up with such a complete definition so fast. He continued, “As for secrecy, you make it sound like some silly conspiracy or something but the truth is, what you call secrecy I call reserved because economics is like a poker tournament and in this world, the losers are slaughtered.”

“You need to have something that each side desperately wants and needs for happiness” he continued, “You need to fill the voids that are not satisfied by religion or things within their control. You need to be the outside force that sums up the solution to everything that makes them whole because once they’ve experienced this all-encompassing fulfillment they can’t be without it.” Careful to enunciate his next words he spoke slower, “and the ability to take away this fulfillment is where real power begins. You want to be the one that can supply it and take it away”. A Zen-like explosion was going off in my mind, the dots were connecting and just as a flurry of questions made it to my lips I was interrupted by, “OK, well it was nice meeting you but I have to run”.

He shook my hand and before I could ask him for a second meeting he was getting in the back of a black sedan and gone. My ten minutes with James Scott changed my thinking process on corporate management, influence and implementing strategies that stay in place during the ups and downs of the global market place. I don’t look at people the same. For better or worse I’m trying to stick to the principles learned in this meeting and studied online with Scott’s writings. I can now understand the relevance of invisible hands reaching out and controlling the paths of the masses, I can’t exactly say I know how to do it but when I watch the news and read journals I can’t help but wonder if what they are saying was based on their own research or if they too have fallen prey to powers beyond their grasp who consider them nothing more than a human lab experiment.

Niccolo Machiavelli, and t Stanford Pages are great place to study leadership and influence


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Rogue Globalization Strategist: Visualize A Prosperous Nation

April 18th, 2011

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.

More on global powerhouse nations, Think Brazil


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Corporate Power Brokers: The Political, The Economic and Everyone Else

April 18th, 2011

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’.

Harvard MBA Program, or Yale MBA you decide


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Globalization Experts – CEO Checklist

November 18th, 2010

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.

next search term, targeted search


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Top 40 Under 40 – Imagine Being A Public Company CEO At 35

November 18th, 2010

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.

BusinessWeek’s Review on CEOs Under 40, Time had a great right up for Political Players Under 40


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Taking Your Company Public? Check Out What Real Presence Looks Like

November 9th, 2010

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


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Taking A Company Public – Establishing A Position Of Power

October 5th, 2010

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.

Want to find out more about establishing real, long lasting corporate power and position ? , then visit Princeton Corporate Solutions’ blog Economic Globalization Strategies, Power Brokering and IPO Facilitation that can transform the direction of your company, career or campaign.

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Corporate Power Strategies – Modern Machiavellian Concepts That Work Fast

October 5th, 2010

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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Crisis Management Done Properly Is Like Having Micro-Militias Ready For Action Anytime In Every Place

October 5th, 2010

For the economically nave and entrepreneurial utopia seekers, this isn’t an article for you. Press that ‘X’ at the top right side of the computer screen and open up a new browser and go to the official Obama page where you’ll get the lies you need in order to feel like your corporate concepts actually have a place in reality.

For those of us who are more comfortable with the truth and understand that the gentle lapping shore is nothing more than a typhoon of lava spinning uncontrollably around you, keep reading. Every second of ever day there is a new crisis that will come to a head via methods by your opposition that is out of bounce and under the belt. They don’t care about your image damage or crumbling client base due to this blatant ‘lie’ or sucker punch aftermath. Your response should be just as dirty and everlasting.

Never allow an individual, client or competitor to get close enough to where they can engage and initiate an offensive but when it happens, you need to take this ‘tap to the chin’ and respond with a sledgehammer to the skull of the opponent. You will need to pummel them from every angle both personally and professionally.

The first thing you need to do is downplay the negative publicity issued by this entity in regards to you or your company. For this you need to take every ounce of legitimacy and industry authority and first call it into question by publicizing concepts that will confuse the public as to the company’s ability to follow through with their claims, next inject cancer into the cell that carries the message attached to this company so that every area of coverage that this company has becomes infected with the message that you put out.

Find out, first about the individual that has taken it upon themselves to publicize their negative opinion about your company, next who is his direct management, who is the executive over this management and next who are their most obvious strategic partners and who is their most critical distribution or sales alliance and finally are they public or a private entity.

With the above information you should chart the entity with a plan for annihilation, this offensive must be quick, strategic, planned to the ‘t’ and without mercy. And finally this devastation must be via third party and as public as possible. The best way to get this done is by calling up localized competitors who have been affected by the market presence of this company and organize them as a regional militia that will infiltrate the entity and follow through on your behalf. To get them to the point of action, show them the advantages of owning the regional market share of this target. Offer them economic supplementation for their efforts. Use an outside social media vendor to help this militia gain the regional advantage and distribution mechanism under their name via your social media vendor. You need to stay in control of the social media distribution so that the information release is timed perfectly.

The attach must encompass the individual personally that initiated this process against your company. Every ounce of legitimacy they have must be called into question and then stamped out of existence so that their presence can’t possibly be perpetuated in the industry by getting another position in this particular niche. Then work your way up the management chain, each time mentioning the initiator that put this into motion.

Corporate crisis management is not a defensive but a war strategy offensive. It’s not an act of ‘reaction’ it’s the act of obscene annihilation that is swift, public and a demonstration to others of what will happen if they try to cross you.

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Taking A Company Public – Eliminating Threats – The Economic Death Machine

October 4th, 2010

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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