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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

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The poppies just keep on growing. While the new president tries to instill a return to civility and order, the old one hopes the legal sledgehammer currently being lifted in New York somehow fails to crack open the coconut of various misgivings that will soon create an Excedrin headache all the Tylenol Extra Strength in […]

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“FEAR” by Bob Woodward

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There is a reason Bob Woodward is one of the most highly respected journalists covering American politics and his latest book, “FEAR,” is proof why: “FEAR” is a thoroughly researched, fact-based work that pulls back the curtain on the disorganized chaos caused by current president Donald Trump. The book pre-ordered a million copies–a prodigious number […]

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Trump’s Shocking Victory: How to Accept it Quickly

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Bombastic self-promoting businessman Donald Trump’s stunning upset victory in the United States presidential election was, for hundreds of millions around the world, somewhat unsettling. While opponent Hillary Clinton earned a slim preference in the cumulative popular vote, Trump’s electoral college advantage (290-232) was decisive. Combined with Trump’s Republican party regaining control of both the House of Representatives and U. S. Senate, the next […]

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The BREXIT Vote & U.S. Election: The Juggling of Human Emotions

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An interesting web article by Diane Raymond caught my eye and I thought her topic—human emotions—was worth sharing and building upon. In view of yesterday’s stunning BREXIT exodus decision by the United Kingdom, it seems worth noting what emotions are and how the world suddenly finds itself percolating in them. All of us experience an […]

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The Behavioral Impact of Technology on American & British Elections

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I recently returned from teaching a business class in London, a trip that also involved a circuitous return from France due to irate transportation workers going on strike. Frustration abounds, regardless which side of the Atlantic you reside. In the U. K., the American presidential election is a bemused distraction for most, whose primary concern […]

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Donald Trump’s Curious Math: Addition by Division

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As America heads into the stretch of its nomination free-for-all formerly known as presidential campaigning, the emotion of the Donald Trump candidacy deserves a bit of behavioral dissection. The flamboyant businessman is single-handedly unlocking dormant emotion and stoking frustration into activism that threatens to change us from the United States of America to the Divided […]

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The Selling of a Candidate: Why Romney has a Chance

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I coach corporate sales positioning, value propositions, and strategic selling in white collar environments. My client companies typically offer differentiated, value-based solutions in increasingly crowded spaces. In many regards, they parallel political campaigns. Success hinges on swaying perception. Every four years The Big Election rolls around, forcefully plowing its way through the decency of our […]

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Why Politics Inflame Emotion

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As an impatient and confused America lumbers toward an uncertain eenie-meenie in November’s presidential election between two flawed candidates, ushering us along the way are flood tides of political truths, half-truths, mistruths, and laughable distortions that have raised voter emotions to an angry volatility not seen in decades. This voter intensity stems from five very […]

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