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Can the world prepare to recover from disasters like Japan’s? Houston-based housing expert says yes, urges U.S. and world governments to forge recovery policy.   Guy Rankin’s Blog – Full Story We can’t prevent them. In many cases, we can’t even predict them. Natural disasters will happen; they inevitably kill, destroy and displace. Whether a struck nation faces staggering losses or mild, a disaster’s aftermath is something nations definitely can prepare for. Japan’s plight following the... Read Full Story

As a professional speaker  I was in the airport the other day getting ready to fly to Las Vegas. (I’m there more than Cher.) I was relaxing at the President’s Club, eating cheap cheese and old fruit with all my elite-status, high-mileage brethren. The gentleman who sat down beside me wore a baseball cap that read “NYC Police.” He proceeded to tell me he was an undercover cop, so I had to ask, “Then you only wear this hat on your days off?” I think a great number of people have no idea how... Read Full Story

Why is it important to hire a funny keynote speaker especially when you are primarily interested in “killer content” for your audience? Content + Humor: A Full-on Fusion Boosts Your Meeting’s Success You know your organization’s objectives for the meeting. You spend time and effort to create the perfect event to support those goals. And then a dry, boring speaker single-handedly makes sure that attendees carry away nothing of value … except maybe a few bottled waters. In today’s work... Read Full Story

Generations Working Better Together: Educational Influence This extremely informative, entertaining, solutions-based session explores why younger and older people don’t see eye to eye. From dealing with coworkers and parents of a different generation, to handling the entitled behavior of the students without losing your mind, this research-based program shows it’s possible for baby boomers and Gen X and Y individuals to work well together in an educational environment. Additional programs... Read Full Story

The Real Truth About Success , a McGraw-Hill title by business relationship expert and keynote speaker Garrison Wynn, recently reached No. 15 on Amazon’s list of Kindle best sellers. In hardcover, The Real Truth About Success steadily ranks among Amazon’s best sellers in the workplace behavior category. The Real Truth About Success: What the Top 1% Do Differently, Why They Won’t Tell You, and How You Can Do It Anyway! debunks common myths about success, replacing them with new insight into... Read Full Story

Create your own advantage! If you have trouble discovering an innate advantage—or if what you find doesn’t seem advantageous enough—you create an advantage . The top 1 percent we surveyed and studied did not always have size, beauty, or remarkable demeanors (some were downright obnoxious and a bit hard on the eye), but they all had advantages they used to help them be successful. These advantages were often not innate but things a lot of people might have. The top performers just identified... Read Full Story

With a current world picture that includes tsunamis, unrest in the Middle East and a struggling economic recovery, it might be tempting to say that the Mayans were right and we’re approaching the end in 2012. Maybe the Mayans were just good at math, which we all know can be helpful but won’t necessarily get you a date. (We tend to remember Olympic champions but rarely sing the praises of a mathlete.) Just because an ancient civilization did not outlive its own calendar doesn’t mean it’s the... Read Full Story

Remember when social networking meant you went to local networking meetings to connect with supposed rainmakers who could refer business to you? You would eat some rather tough chicken and be exposed to a den of losers whose homemade business cards left you wondering why you showed up in the first place. I once met a psychic attorney at one of these functions who said he knew when someone was going to be sued in the future. I got a little nervous when he kept insisting that I hold onto his... Read Full Story

The key to leadership is influence and the key to influence is making sure your people feel valuable. The seduction of power: Being the boss can cause some people to believe they are superior beings.  If you feel like you kind of own your people and they are lucky to be working for you, you have a problem. You may be power crazy if you refer to yourself in the 3rd person, you interrupt your employees in the middle of important business tasks to get them to do personal favors for you or... Read Full Story

I rode in one of the best cabs in the United States this month in Birmingham, Alabama.  I travel up to 15 dates a month and was impressed that the cab driver was professional, the cab was immaculately clean, the driver knew exactly where she was going, she spoke English and anticipated her customers needs. (Including having cold bottled water)! Filed under: Success Qualities , Travel Tagged: airport transfer , Birmingham AL cab , business travel , cab drivers speak english , clean cab... Read Full Story