Jim Blasingame on Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical Podcast

    /24-7PressRelease/ - WESTERVILLE, OH, January 18, 2008 - Jim Canterucci's January guest is the Small Business Advocate Jim Blasingame.

Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical weekly podcast features experts and their brilliance. Each weekly episode (approximately 15 minutes) features one of the four Personal Brilliance catalysts - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative.

Jim Blasingame (www.smallbusinessadvocate.com) is the creator and award-winning host of the Small Business Advocate Show, the world's only weekday talk show dedicated to small business. He conducts over 1,000 live interviews annually with business experts, policy makers, and entrepreneurs. Fortune Small Business magazine says he's one of the 30 most influential people in America representing small business interests.

Some of the Jim Blasingmae podcast's highlights:

Episode 1 - Awareness

• A view on the economy for small business in 2008.
• Self-determination as a success measurement.
• The discipline of self-awareness and dealing with what you find.
• Why ego is the enemy of self-awareness.
• The benefits of a healthy appreciation for failure.
• The benefit of making a lot of decisions.

Episode 2 - Curiosity

• Why you can't be an entrepreneur without curiosity.
• The difference between entrepreneurs and small business owners.
• A question for every manager to ask regularly.
• The most empowering question you can ask someone.
• The lie that small business owners tell themselves.
• How to overcome any lack of knowledge.
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Episode 3 - Focus

• Focus like an airline pilot.
• The concept of 'scan' as a focus technique for small business owners.
• Avoiding crisis management.
• Why it sometimes makes sense to take on more water when there is a leak in the boat.
• How focus can improve with business growth.
• Techniques for dealing with interruptions.
• When interruptions can be a good thing.
• The types of decisions in which sleeping on it can be an incredible tool.

Episode 4 - Initiative

• The thing that holds most small businesses back.
• The key to having employees take initiative.
• Why learning takes the risk out of initiative.
• The role of courage for an entrepreneur.
• Why an entrepreneur can't be a loaner.
• The partner model vs. the dominator model.
• Why it's important to use the four Personal Brilliance catalysts - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative, to develop people.
• How to give people initiative without having them go off the reservation.
• An argument for business mistakes to be allocated to the training budget.
• Keys to knowing what to do when you're in an environment that is not conducive to innovation.

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Jim Canterucci is the author of Personal Brilliance. Find out how brilliant you really are with the Personal Brilliance Quotient (PBQ) at www.MyPersonalBrilliance.com.

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