• fun thoughts... Emerson vs Thoreau
• thoughts you should know… expert's edge
• thoughtleader university… 2009 webinars
• thoughts and actions… Ken's new blog!
• welcome... to our newest client thoughtleaders
• welcome... to our newest interns
• thoughtleader spotlight… kudos to our thoughtleaders for their recent victories

 

thoughts you should know...
...expert's edge

BOOK REVIEWS: Since our last thoughtnotes, new featured reviews of The Expert’s Edge: Become The Go-To Authority People Turn To Every Time by Ken Lizotte (McGraw-Hill) have appeared on Fascinating Authors, TCM Reviews, Authors Reviewed Online and Amazon.com. To read, visit our new book website www.theexpertsedge.com or www.amazon.com

EXPERT’S EDGE E-BOOK: A condensed e-version of Ken’s book called "The Expert's Edge Primer," highlighting many of the book's golden nuggets, is now available for the asking. Best of all… it’s free! To obtain your personal copy, email us at inq@thoughtleading.com

PERSONALIZED AUTOGRAPHED COPY: Get your copy of The Expert’s Edge autographed by Ken and personalized to you, a friend, a colleague, a niece or nephew… whomever! Just email the words “I want my Expert’s Edge!” to inq@thoughtleading.com and we’ll send you back full details.

SPEAKING: In January, Ken spoke at the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) annual conference in Oklahoma City and to Strategos innovation consultants in Chicago. This month, Ken will be a featured facilitator at "An Interactive Dialogue About Executive Leadership," hosted by Fields Associates on Thursday March 26th at the downtown Harvard Club. To learn more, call Monica Calzolari at 508-904-1048 or email monica@mktzone.com

To learn more about The Expert's Edge, click on the book cover.

thoughts and actions...
...Ken's new blog!

Yep, Ken has joined the blogosphere by adding his very own blog to the mix, offering ongoing tips for becoming a thoughtleader, publishing your ideas, motivating prospective clients and employers to seek you out, plus Ken’s views on breaking news items and a few fun quizzes as well.

Sign up by visiting our new book website: www.theexpertsedge.com

welcome...
...to our newest interns

Welcome to our newest interns Jennifer Canfield and Giles Pettingell who will be assisting us as we feverishly work to make and keep our client thoughtleaders famous!To view their bios, click here and scroll down: http://www.thoughtleading.com/team.htm

 

welcome...
...to our newest client thoughtleaders

Moe Kelley, Partner, Endeavour Partners Ltd, a recognized expert in fact-based decision-making in such areas as strategy, finance and project management focused on the converging worlds of broadband and mobile

Nancy R. Mobley, President, Insight Performance, a firm recognized as a national industry leader in responding to the growing needs of small and medium sized companies that require quality, affordable human resource solutions

Karen Friedman, Karen Friedman Enterprises, helping spokespeople, newsmakers and executives make the most of every interview, meeting, appearance and presentation via powerful messages to influence important listeners and to get results

The Holleman Companies, a specialized boutique insurance advisory firm focused exclusively in three areas: business continuity, executive benefits and insurance advisory

• The new book Risk-Free Technology: A Non-Technical Small-To-Medium Business Guide To Stemming Huge Productivity Losses From Poor Performing Information Technology by Charlie Nault, Chair of Atrion Networking Corporation, has been officially published by Global Professional Publishing

• “Six Deadly Orthodoxies Of Recessions” by Pierre Loewe, Founding Director and Dave Jones, Associate, Strategos, in Chief Executive Online

• “A 2009 Benefits Plan Even A CFO Could Love” by Kevin Ryan, Senior Vice President, Longfellow Benefits, in Employee Benefit Plan Review

• Mass High Tech ran an article featuring Wolf Greenfield’s “outlook on IP law” for 2009

• “Want To Motivate Like A Good CEO? Here’s How” by Suzanne Bates, President /CEO of Bates Communications, in Mass High Tech, based on her new book Motivate Like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act! just out from McGraw-Hill. Articles based on her book also appeared in Consulting Times, CEO Refresher, Forbes.com and Incentive Magazine’s Survival Guide, among many others

• “Why Healthcare Matters: How Business Leaders Can Drive Transformational Change” by Frank Hone, Founder/CEO, Healthcentric Partners Inc., has been officially published by HRD Press

• “Do Your Employees Understand Your Company’s Disability Plan?  Do You?” by Jim Mooradian, Founder, and Chris Allen, Senior Consultant, Jim Mooradian and Associates, Inc., in Employee Benefit Plan Review. Jim also co-authored “Voluntary Benefits Offset Health Costs” with Bryan Lambert, JMA Broker, for Indus Business Journal, and was also quoted in an article about benefits communication in SHRM Online

• “Systematically Innovate! What Sounds Like An Oxymoron Is Actually A Recipe For Dependable Results” by Dave Crosswhite, Managing Director, and Jorge Rufat-Latre, Director, Strategos, in Business Strategy Magazine

• Ed Perlman, Shareholder, Wolf Greenfield, was featured in an article about protecting IP in China, published in Inventors Digest

• Jim Edholm, President of Business Benefits Insurance, was quoted in an article in Insurance Broadcasting on the topic of Cobra changes within the Obama stimulus plan. Jim also published an article on healthcare plan discrimination in Legal Management Magazine as well as “Healthcare Plan Options: Strategies For Massachusetts Legal Firms,” the latest in his monthly column in Mass Lawyer’s Weekly

• Kevin Gazda, Associate Director of Employee Benefits, Longfellow Benefits, was quoted in Human Resources Magazine on the topic of opt-in coverage for retailers’ healthcare

• “Gaining Agreements: Why Children Are Masters At Selling!” by Shelley Hall, Principal, Catalytic Management Consulting, in CEO Refresher. Shelley also published “Without A Trace: Your Company’s IP (If You’re Not Careful)” in Industry Week Online

• “Contain Meetings To Control Your Calendar” by Sarah Woods, Executive Coach and Senior Communications Consultant, Bates Communications, in Women’s Business Boston. A version of this article also appeared in The Independent Consultant

• “America: Export Nation? From Consumer-Centric To Export-Centric” by Tom Schinkel, international business expert, in Indus Business Journal and CEO Refresher

• Kendall Storch, Director, Retirement Services, Longfellow Benefits, was quoted on WATD and various business websites on the current state of business retirement plans

• “New Proposed 408(b)(2) Fee-Disclosure Requirements Have The Potential To Kill 401(k) Plans As We Know Them:  What Plan Sponsors Should Do Now” and “How A 401(k) Plan Can Affect A Merger Or Acquisition,” both by David P. Boucher CFP, AIF, Vice President Retirement Plans, Longfellow Benefits, in Employee Benefit Plan Review

• “Be Careful When Pegging Value To IT Projects” by Steve Lipka, Principal, Avatar Strategic Partners, in Providence Business News. A version of this article has also been accepted by CEO Refresher.

• Steve Henry, Shareholder, Wolf Greenfield, was quoted in Lexpert Magazine and PC World Online on the topic of business patents. Steve was also interviewed by Law Times on his view of the Bilski decision and in IP Law 360 in an article titled “IP Joint Ownership Creates Challenges For Companies”

• “Wellness Can Be A Powerful Business Management Strategy But It Takes Intelligent Planning And Execution” by Meghan Cooper, Senior Consultant of Employee Benefit Services, Longfellow Benefits, in Employee Benefit Plan Review. A version of this article also appeared in Women’s Business Boston. In addition, Meghan authored the article “How To Get The Most From Your Benefits Program Through Communication,” which appeared in both Managing Diversity and HR Fact Finder

• Mary Adams, CMC, President, Intellectual Capital Advisors and Mike Oleksak, CMC, Founding Principal, Trek Consulting LLC, have signed a contract with Praeger Press to publish their new book, tentatively titled “Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge To Work In The 21st Century Organization”

• Recharge Your Team: A Grounded Visioning Approach by Jay W. Vogt, Founder/CEO Peoplesworth, has just been officially published by Praeger Press

• “Presidential Advisory Councils (PACs) Offer CEOs Support, Counsel And New Ideas” by Ken Lizotte, Chief Imaginative Officer (CIO), emersongroup, and Michael Brown, freelance writer, in CEO Refresher. The article described the value of PACs as offered by the CEO Club of Boston, under the direction of Fred Green

• “Pitfalls In Litigating A Contested Will” by Dr. Sanford L. Finkel, geriatric psychiatrist and expert witness for probate, has been accepted for publication in Family Law Newsletter

• Allen Rugg and Michael Rader, Shareholders at Wolf Greenfield, were quoted in Law Times on the topic of patentability of recent business method patents and post eBay litigation

• “The Trouble With Success: How To Operate As A Big Player” by Renate Rooney, President RCR Associates LLC, in ManageSmarter.com

• “Mistaken Assumptions Of Business Leaders” by Kathryn Earle, Senior Consultant, Stone + Company, in Providence Business News

• “For Innovation That Works Dispel Obsolete Assumptions And Ask New Questions” by George Chen, Director and Pierre Loewe, Founding Director, Strategos, in Consulting Times

• “What’s Your EQ? How Managing Your Emotional Intelligence Quotient At Work Can Make You And Your Team More Successful” by Elizabeth LaPierre, Analyst/Product Development, Stone + Company, in CEO Refresher

• “Patent Reexaminations Boom As A Strategy To Fight Infringement Charges” by Bob Abrahamsen, Shareholder and IP Litigator, Wolf Greenfield, in Managing IP Magazine

• “Want To Cut Costs And Still Be Compliant? Don’t Hire More Accountants: Improve Your Systems And Processes” by John Weathington, President and CEO of Excellent Management Systems, Inc., in CEO Refresher

• “Technology Collaborations And Joint Ventures” by Neil Ferraro, Shareholder, Wolf Greenfield, in MX Magazine

• “CEOs Of Family-Owned Businesses Face Tough Hiring And Firing Decisions” by Darrell Beck, Ph.D., CMC, President of Darrell Beck and Associates, Inc., in CEO Refresher

• Robert Simpkins CMC, Principal of Global Crosswinds LLC, has been selected to be a keynote speaker at the EuroBusiness conferences in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain this month as well as the GrupoBusiness conference in Mexico City in May. His second book, Not Just Another Pretty Binder! Strategic Planning That Actually Works, co-authored by Behnaz Paknejad, also a Principal with Global Crosswinds, was published recently by HRD Press

• “Beyond The ‘Balanced’ Scorecard: How An “Un-Balanced” View Of Performance Could Dramatically Increase Your Ability To Execute” by Dr. Dan Roller, Manager of Operations Consulting, Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, in CEO Refresher

• “There's One Right Way And Many Wrong Ways To ‘Right Size’” by John Myrna, Co-Founder, Myrna associates, in CEO Refresher. John also published “Here's How To Beat the Recession: Make Your Management Team More Effective” in Industry Week’s Inside Track

• “Searching For New Profit Ideas In Your Company? Look No Further Than The Services Department!” by Jim Sakaguchi, VP of Global Services & Support for a division of Harris Corporation, in CEO Refresher

• "The Browser War Is Back: Expect User Casualties" and "Planning Ahead Will Help Make IT Audits Painless," both by Vin D'Amico, President of Damicon, in his monthly column Virtual Business, in IndUS Business Journal

• Pran Tiku, Founder/President of Peak Financial Management, spoke at the monthly meeting of the Senior Executive Networking Group of New England about concepts in his book Six Sizzling Markets: How To Profit From Investing In Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico And South Korea (Wiley)