Communications – Personal Think Tank

The Art of Listening

I’ve been thinking more and more about listening lately. Not just hearing but truly listening. Listening with curiosity. Listening with presence. Four categories of listening that come to mind for me include:

– Self Listening
– Relationship Listening
– Spiritual Listening

Self Listening

Self Listening can be described as our attempt to make meaning by evaluating how current situations made up of incoming communications and sensory information compare and contrast against the elaborate story we currently believe about ourselves, so that […]

Book Review: Never Eat Alone

Author: Keith Ferrazzi, Founder & CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight

There are literally thousands of ways to accelerate your effectiveness as an individual, professional, business owner, community leader or CEO – but none potentially as effective as building real, genuine relationships with others.

In his book “Never Eat Alone: And other secrets to success, one relationship at a time,” Keith Ferrazzi, founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a marketing and sales consulting company, outlines an approach to connecting with others and building relationships […]