HOW TO USE THE POWER OF PERSUASION

Recently, in a training exercise where I used the jungle as a metaphor, I saw someone with the right answers to a dilemma – and the life-experience to arrive at those right answer – yield to his team mates who had the wrong answers.
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PROSPERITY IN NATURE

Monkeys know where their next meal is coming from. The 5 simian species that live in Costa Rica expect to eat well and they organize themselves accordingly. The "Congo" (Howler monkey), the Titi or Squirrel monkey, the "Capuchin" or Whiteface monkey, the Wooly monkey and the Spider monkey all enjoy an incredible bounty but they don't rely on Providence.
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RULES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

National Geographic Magazine had a devastating article on "Global Warming". With scientific graphs and haunting photos, they examined the state of the Biosphere from 3 perspectives they called its Geo, Eco and Time Signs. The challenges we face are huge. We have to rethink our handiwork and how we treat our world. Read More...

THE POWER OF SYMBOLS AND WORDS…

The ancient Jaguar-kings of tropical America used pictures and ideograms to communicate ideas. Ideograms are totem-images that explain larger concepts. As such, they wrote down in stone everything we need to know about leadership, creative intelligence and personal power by recounting the myth of Quetzalcoatl. That ideogram tells about 5 totem animals who guide the human mind.

ON IMPROVING TEAM PERFORMANCE

I watched as a mother jaguar taught her cubs how to fend for themselves. She was aware of the dangers of their jungle world and was sharing her wisdom. She communicated to them with low growls and grunts, gave them or nips and firmer bites if displeased, and purred loudly when pleased. I was realized she was giving them feedback on their performance.
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GETTING WHAT YOU WANT

Home from a trip to Costa Rica, Suzy and I were invited into the Quebec heartland, to a beautiful lodge on a pristine lake, where I told a management team the story of the Jaguar-kings. Driving home after, we remarked on how lucky we are to stay at some of the finest resorts all over the world - for FREE - in the course of our work and, in fact, how we enjoy a life that we are consciously choosing.
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TO COMMAND RESPECT…

In one of the conferences I animate, I speak of the roles of a strategic leader. Based on rules of cognition which show that “understanding follows experience”, the roles are Stalker of information, Dreamer of possibilities, Seer of opportunities, Leader in action and Persuasive communicator.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING TRUST

Leaders of several countries have recently been deposed and others are on the chopping block because they lost the trust of their citizens. They didn’t notice that - in Nature - species go to extraordinary lengths to establish trust among members.
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CONSISTENCY IS PERSUASIVE

I heard a woman gasp when I mentioned the “Poison Dart Frog” – i.e. when I specifically said the tiny red and blue amphibian secretes a poison that can contaminate the water reservoir of a population of 500,000 people. It is quite small but very deadly and therefore extremely persuasive.

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HOW NATURE CHAMPIONS STRATEGY

You’ll recognize the deep wisdom in Nature by observing patterns in the larger "web of interactions". Notice how everything interacts in two ways: Sequentially and Simultaneously. Sequential events (i.e. one thing happens, and then another, in a logic path...) allow us to make "decision-tree choices". Simultaneous events require a more intuitive way of thinking that begins with an understanding of "games theory choices".
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