http://www.performx.net The Business of Opportunity Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:26:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Business of Opportunity no Mark Monchek mm@performx.net http://www.performx.net/podcast/7-key-steps-to-find-security-and-success/ http://www.performx.net/podcast/7-key-steps-to-find-security-and-success/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:29:56 +0000 MarkMonchek http://www.performx.net/?p=523 http://www.performx.net/podcast/7-key-steps-to-find-security-and-success/feed/ 2 Opportunity Investigator Radio In this interview Mark Monchek talks with Doug West and Richard Jackson of Opportunity Investigator radio about the impact of the most severe recession in memory on the new world of business. Mark outlines 7 key steps that anyone can take to find security and success in both business and personal life today. He focuses on embracing change, creating an action plan, and other important survival tips in this segment. In this interview Mark Monchek talks with Doug West and Richard Jackson of Opportunity Investigator radio about the impact of the most severe recession in memory on the new world of business. Mark outlines 7 key steps that anyone can take to find [...] Mark Monchek 60 minutes no http://www.performx.net/podcast/how-to-thrive-in-our-cconomy/ http://www.performx.net/podcast/how-to-thrive-in-our-cconomy/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:36:10 +0000 MarkMonchek http://www.performx.net/?p=476 http://www.performx.net/podcast/how-to-thrive-in-our-cconomy/feed/ 0 KGAB Morning Zone Mark Monchek discusses “facing the facts” in this interview with KGAB radio in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He helps listeners take an honest inventory of their finances and use this unclouded information to make informed decisions about the future. Mark explains that being realistic about the current economy can help us to get over the fact that things are not the same as they were before and even realize that there are new opportunities to be found even today. Mark Monchek discusses “facing the facts” in this interview with KGAB radio in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He helps listeners take an honest inventory of their finances and use this unclouded information to make informed decisions about the future. Mark [...] Mark Monchek 14 minutes no http://www.performx.net/the-opportunity-show/6-steps-to-transforming-fear-into-opportunity-2/ http://www.performx.net/the-opportunity-show/6-steps-to-transforming-fear-into-opportunity-2/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:51:45 +0000 MarkMonchek http://www.performx.net.previewdns.com/?p=178 http://www.performx.net/the-opportunity-show/6-steps-to-transforming-fear-into-opportunity-2/feed/ 0 Trying to get a handle on where our economy stands? Trying to get a handle on where you stand? Daunting and confusing is how I would describe the experience many of us are having right now. It feels like we are in a strange lull. We know something has changed but we haven’t quite made sense of it yet. There are brief glimpses of a possible recovery. But unemployment has risen in 48 states, with Michigan leading the way with a frightening 14%. The subtle indicators of life, like the number of parking spaces in your neighborhood, or the ease of hailing a cab on a rainy day at rush hour tell me we’re not nearly out of it yet. If you have lost your job, or are unable to retire, or your house is gone, or there is no more health insurance to protect you, recovery is a long way off and fear is probably a headline. I’d like to talk about what’s required to transform that fear into opportunity. Most of us have been programmed for predictability. Whether it actually worked or not, we had a game plan to follow and follow it we did: go to school, get good grades, use those good grades to go to a good college. Pick a career you like or one that will give you job security and maybe a decent income. Work hard. Find opportunities, move up the ladder. Along the way, maybe get married, buy a house, have kids, move to a better place, get a better job, maybe switch careers to one you like better. Retire, take it easy, maybe travel. But that’s all changed- seemingly in a flash and without warning, and we have not been set-up very well for the kind of radical change that is part of the new world of business. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, best-selling author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness believes we’ve fooled ourselves all along. “…our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable—and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focused on the known, and the repeated. This implies the need to use the extreme event as a starting point and not treat it as the exception to be pushed under the rug… the future will be increasingly less predictable, while both human nature and social ‘science’ seem to conspire to hide the idea from us.” If 9/11 and a surging focus on terrorism, or global warming, or wild swings in commodity prices (like oil) didn’t convince you that we live in a world of radical change, maybe the crash and burn of our economy, the astonishing election of a black president or the emergent nuclear capabilities of rogue states like Iran or North Korea will. The need to confront and adapt to radical change is in itself an opportunity. Here are 6 Steps to help you create opportunity in the new world of business: Step 1. Face the Facts The more we can accept that the future is not predictable and that radical, jarring change is the “new normal,” the better we will be able to succeed in business and in life. Success will go to businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs and professionals who successfully negotiate between living and working in the present and continually adapting to change. Step 2. Take an Honest Inventory: By honest, I mean the good, the bad and the ugly. The good is what you really appreciate in your life. We need gratitude now more than ever. Write down who and what you are most thankful for. Gratitude is a powerful emotion that research has shown is often the difference between illness and health, death and survival, failure and success. Look at the bad in your life, but with compassion. The opportunity is not to blame but to learn from your mistakes. What is not working in your business? Look at your strategy, your leadership, your customer service, your sales and marketing, the areas of operations and finance. Find the weaknesses, and see them as opportunities. The ugly refers to the things you never want to look at- your “fatal” flaws. Those really negative patterns that hold you back. Well, brother, and sister, now is the time. What you [...] Trying to get a handle on where our economy stands? Trying to get a handle on where you stand? Daunting and confusing is how I would describe the experience many of us are having right now. It feels like we are in a strange lull. We know something [...] http://www.performx.net/labs-video/kung-fu-bear/ http://www.performx.net/labs-video/kung-fu-bear/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 02:36:42 +0000 Andrew Levine http://www.performx.net/?p=921 http://www.performx.net/labs-video/kung-fu-bear/feed/ 0