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CHARLES E. SMITH Ph.D is Executive Editor of the Journal of Collaborative Innovation in the Library of Professional Coaching. A highly-experienced Futurist, Author, and Executive Coach, current interests are in deep dives into the nature of Collaborative Innovation, conscious conversations, and engaging large numbers of kindred spirits and businesses. For fifty years, he has been a personal and leadership coach and organizational behavior consultant stimulating breakthrough thinking, culture change and seemingly impossible results. A graduate of the Boston Public Latin School, Charlie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Relations from Harvard College, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, and a Certificate in Gestalt Methods from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, former President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of New Mexico, and Editor of Transformation Magazine published by the Library of Professional Coaching. Dr. Smith has written three books, "The Merlin Factor, Leadership and Strategic Intent” "Navigating from the Future," “Don’t be a Noddle in Someone Else’s Soup” and many articles located in the Library of Professional Coaching and Eruditio, a Journal of the World Academy of Art and Science.

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Best Empowerment Tips

By Charles Smith
September 16, 2013
in :  Employee Engagement & Motivation
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Thirty five tools of empowerment.

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Commitment to Other’s Success

By Charles Smith
September 16, 2013
in :  Interpersonal Relationships
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I suggest that the act of committing to others' success makes resistance disappear for as long as you sustain and renew the commitment.

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Bureaucracy, Sludge and Human Energy

By Charles Smith
July 30, 2013
in :  Decison Making & Problem Solving
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215

Unbridled bureaucracy turns human energy into sludge.

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Maybe, I’ve Been Coaching for Too Many Years

By Charles Smith
July 30, 2013
in :  Sustainability
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129

Now, I only love the present moment whatever the hell that is. This all leaves me precisely nowhere not wanting to be somewhere.Perfect.

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Who Am I Talking To?

By Charles Smith
June 24, 2013
in :  Interpersonal Relationships
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109

How without compassion I am most of the time even when I'm listening professionally.How every face is a universe of history ignored by my agenda and self-interest. How big the world really is. How far I have to go.

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The Practice of Creative Indifference

By Charles Smith
June 14, 2013
in :  Gestalt Principles
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The beauty of "creative indifference" is that it takes you to a zero point in a conversation where you can see every dimension of the continuum between possible points of view.

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Coaching for Applicants to be Director of Human Resource Departments

By Charles Smith
March 13, 2013
in :  Employee Engagement & Motivation
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Companies get the human resource departments they deserve by virtue of their actual rather than stated values and actual relationships with people who have less power than they do.

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To Make Wise Choices

By Charles Smith
March 6, 2013
in :  Managing Stress & Challenges
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The point is that in three seconds, you can get over upsets, move on, and make wise choices.

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Avalon et Glastonbury: Le Facteur Merlin

By Charles Smith
February 7, 2013
in :  Concepts of Leadership
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“Un lieu de travail performant demande une attention égale entre Dans la légende du roi Arthur, Glastonbury symbolise une ville visible et Avalon une ville invisible. Chacun, cependant, occupe le même territoire physique. Seuls quelques individus comme Merlin, conseiller du roi, a su trouver son chemin entre les deux. De plus, la plupart des gens ne connaissait même plus l’existence …

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Energy Vampire Invasion

By Charles Smith
December 3, 2012
in :  Life Planning, Managing Stress & Challenges
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The United States has been invaded by Energy Vampires. They are well organized and here to suck our blood and vital bodily fluids. They seem to belong to secret orders, possibly religious in nature.

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