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Follow Your Passion

This post is not mainstream communication but rather closer to my life-coaching and entrepreneurial roots. To make a long story short my cousins whom I grew up with watching horror flicks have entered...

Leaving Moscow – Thoughts On Doing International Business

Today was my last day of training the fine folks at WorldMark Corporation/Oil Technology Overseas here in Moscow, Russia. Although this was not my first international training mission, it is certainly...

Do You Speak the Same Way to a Taxi Driver and a CEO?

Greetings everyone! Sorry it has been a while – Moscow has been keeping me busy (but for only one more week now). I thought you might like to consider the question in the title – from a communications...

The Best 3 Books for Managers?

The best 3 books on management, as voted by the PROFIT 100 (Source: PROFIT magazine, Dec-Jan 08), are Good to Great by Jim Collins, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, and The One-Minute Manager by...

The Russian people are great!

Say what you will about the Russian gov’t, the military and some parts of history, but the Russian people are quite okay in my books. Thursday I was invited over to a student’s house with...

Build Relationships Even When Travelling

Greetings from Moscow, Russia again! As most of you know I teach relationship-building techniques, the art of small talk and the secrets of winning first impressions. These interpersonal communication...

Communication Barriers in Moscow

Hello my friends, It has been a while since my last newsletter. At that time I was reporting on why New Year’s resolutions fail. That newsletter caught the attention of someone at CBC and I was...

Ric on CBC TV now on YouTube – FYI

This is a follow-up to my appearance on CBC News Television January 1st 2008. I was asked by CBC to come in and discuss why 90% of New Year’s resolutions fail. We only had 5 minutes but we talked...

My Appearance on CBC – Summary

My blog entry regarding new years resolutions caught the attention of someone at CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – and I was invited in to briefly discuss the topic of resolutions and why we...