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March 8 – 12, 2010 is Make a Referral Week, which small business would you recommend to others and why? According to the Make a Referral Week website, “Make a Referral Week is an entrepreneurial approach to stimulating the small business economy one referred business at a time. The goal for the week is to generate 1000 referred leads to 1000 deserving small businesses in an effort to highlight the impact of a simple action that could blossom into millions of dollars in new business.”

On March 10 at noon CST, there is also a webinar designed to teach you how to incorporate a referral system into your business. I have registered for the session, click here to register. There will be other web events during the week that you can participate in.

I thought about this question and I would recommend Rodger Harding from Harding International and Associates Inc. I interviewed Rodger for my newsletter Ambeck Edge over a year ago and I also posted the interview here if you wanted to read it. I have known Rodger for at least five years and I used his services through the Canadian Women in Communications. I participated in the one-to-one mentoring program. He has the ability to read people, and he knows which questions to ask. I have had coaches before and he is very different from them. He didn’t attend coaching school and in his words he “validates excellence,” the excellence in you. Each mentoring session is two hours in length and he video records the session so that you can review it later.

After you participate in one of Rodger’s one-to-one mentoring sessions, you have clarity around what your next steps are. He is brutally, honest so the faint at heart may not appreciate his candidness. I have interviewed members of the Canadian Women in Communications for two projects and many of the interviewees have sang the praises of the program.

For Make  a Referral Week, which small business would you refer and why? Go to the Make a Referral Week website and click on the link Make Your Referral Here! Let’s all do our small part.

Let’s keep the conversation flowing, please let me know what you think about this.  Click on the comment link below. Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN. I can assist you with that too. Visit my sales page for resources such as The Invisible Mentor Toolkit to assist you in acquiring wisdom from a distance. For free white papers click here.

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It’s been one year since I’ve been blogging so I thought I’d grade myself on my blogging report card. I started to blog March 2009, and though it’s been a year, I didn’t let anyone know that I was blogging for about eight months because I wanted to build up content for the website as well as develop discipline and a comfort level around blogging. Like anything in life, the more I blogged, the better I became at it. I still have a long way to go, and there are a lot of things that I still need to learn. How do you prepare for your biggest projects?

I have honored the commitment that I made in terms of the frequency of the blog, but I am not doing as many book reviews as I committed to do. I wanted to do one each week. And, I am not reading as many of the older books that I committed to read. This is something that’s important to me and ultimately to you. Wouldn’t it be great if I  reviewed a long lost book that provided information that you could immediately use at work, and even give you that competitive edge? I firmly believe that we can use some of yesterday’s ideas to solve some of today’s problems.

I would like to interview more accomplished people from other countries to have a diversity of perspectives for a richer experience. Are there folks that you can suggest, and be a bridge in the introduction? I would also like to pull out more of the information on mentoring and career.

There is a lot of rich content on The Invisible Mentor, but I have to segment, and analyze the information to enhance the user experience. I learned about a software program Concordance, that may be able to do that for me, and there is a 30-day trial so I can test it. Wouldn’t it be great if there was enough information that we could build the perfect mentor, what would a perfect mentor look like?

How important is it to honor commitments that you make to yourself? Do you take the time to grade yourself?

As I move forward, what are some things that you’d like to see in this space?

A friend suggested that I hold a contest where my readers would choose their invisible mentor, and in this instance, they would have to choose people who are living because the prize would be mentoring sessions with the “invisible mentor” that they chose. I would need your assistance to make something like this work. If for instance someone chose, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, George Soros, Seth Godin or say a Rupert Murdoch, how would we get access to them? Is this something that you’d be interested in? Because if you were, I’d find a way to make it work.

Looking back at what I have achieved with the invisible mentor, I would grade myself a B+ on my blogging report card. I will work harder at the book reviews and strive to find books that have changed the world, and rare books that will inspire us to take action. For the past year, how would you grade yourself for your most important goals? Why did you give yourself that grade? What can you do better in the upcoming months? A B+ is on my Report Card, what’s on yours?

Let’s continue the conversation, please comment by clicking on the comment link below and let me know if (1) you’d be interested in having your invisible mentor mentor you? and (2) what you’d like to see on this blog? (3) how I can enhance the user experience for you (4) and finally, is a B+ a fair grade, why, why not?

Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN. I can assist you with that too. Visit my sales page for resources such as The Invisible Mentor Toolkit to assist you in acquiring wisdom from a distance. For free white papers click here.

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If you haven’t already, it’s time to take your professional development into your own hands, and invisible mentors will help you to do just that! Invisible mentors are unique leaders that you can learn things from by simply observing them from a distance, or researching them on the Internet. It’s simpler than you might think, here is how:

1. What do you want to learn and why (See Knowledge for a Reason)?
2. Who knows what you want to learn?
3. Make a list of the five top experts in the field.
4. Research them using your favourite search engine.
5. What articles and books have they written? What articles and books have been written about them?
6. Which presentations and speeches have they given?
7. Look for videos about them.
8. Visit their websites and fan pages.
9. Take time to read the information and digest it, then compare it to what you already know.
10. Teach the information to another person to cement it into your memory.

If you’d like me to hold your hand, The Invisible Mentor Toolkit will assist you in choosing your invisible mentors and much more. It’s  acquiring knowledge and wisdom from a distance. Let’s keep the conversation flowing, please let me know what you think about this.  Click on the comment link below. Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN. I can assist you with that too. Visit my sales page for resources such as The Invisible Mentor Toolkit to assist you in acquiring wisdom from a distance. For free white papers click here.

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Most people would like to make history and leave a legacy behind. So, how do you go about making history? Recently I interviewed Nathalie Lussier for this blog, and when I asked her what her favourite quote was, she responded, “Well behaved women never make history,” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. I thought, what a great quote, what are your thoughts about the quote? Would you rather be well-behaved or make history? And what does it mean to be well-behaved?

I decided to research Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to see what I could learn about her. When did she say “Well behaved women never make history,” and in what context did she say it? Born in 1938, Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize winner for “A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785–1812” is a “historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University,” according to Wikipedia.

Thatcher Ulrich wrote an article and included the phrase “well-behaved women seldom make history,” which resonated with many, and the phrase took off like wild fire. After the popularity of the phrase she wrote the book, Well Behaved Women, which looked at the ways women shaped history. Nowhere in the article is the phrase explained, but in the book, she looked at lives of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, Christine de Pisan who challenged the hatred of women and girls and stereotypes in a male dominated world way back in the late 14th century, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many other notable women who practiced social activism. These women stood up for what they believed in.

This means to me that we have to take a stand and make a difference. How can you make a difference? What do you believe in? What is your moral compass? Would you stand up for what you believed in if necessary? These are tough questions. To make a difference, and to make history, is to take the path less traveled and be willing to stand up for what you believe in. You have to take a risk.

Keep the conversation flowing, please comment. Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN. I can assist you with that too. Visit my sales page for resources such as The Invisible Mentor Toolkit to assist you in acquiring wisdom from a distance.

Homework: Review what the other women mentioned did to be considered not well-behaved.

Reference: Wikipedia

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Have you ever been in a situation, where someone said something which validated what you were doing and gave you the encouragement you needed to keep on going? I have been there, and many times I feel as if I am whistling in the dark. I often wonder if people even care about what I am doing or am trying to do. I need validation to let me know that I am on to something, or doing something right. If you have been in this situation, what did you do?

A few days ago I interviewed Alex Brown for this blog, as well as for a project that I am working on for the Canadian Women In Communications. That’s the first video interview I will feature here as  soon as I figure out how to edit it. During the interview, Alex talked about mentors and how she often observed people to see how they operated so that she could learn from them. Many of the mentors she has had were invisible mentors, and I told her that.

She learned a lot by simply observing these people, and there were instances when she approached them and had a conversation to discuss some of what she had observed. So she  practiced invisible mentoring with a twist.

An invisible mentor is a unique leader you can learn things from by observing them from a distance. You many not be among the privileged few who are involved in traditional mentoring relationships, but you can certainly take advantage of the wisdom and knowledge and reap some of the many benefits that mentoring has to offer, if you follow what Alex Brown did.

Application

1. Who are five people who you know, even marginally, who you could learn from. These people could be in your industry, or even at your workplace.
2. Start studying them: see how they operate, how they respond in different situations, how they make decisions, how they interact with others and so on.
3. Invite them out for a coffee and ask them questions, this is invisible mentoring with a twist. They do not even have to know that they are your mentors.

What have you learned that can assist you in your work? What ways can you turn the invisible mentor concept on its head? For more information on invisible mentors read Who Are 5 Unique Leaders You Can Learn Things From?.

Keep the conversation flowing. Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN, I can assist you with that too.

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Is good enough sometimes good enough?

Let me explain. Have  you ever revisited  work you did in the past to see how you have grown? What did you think about what you saw? Was it good enough or did you feel as if you could have done a lot better? Next month will be one year since I have been blogging, so I decided to see how much I have grown as a blogger. I decided to revisit Fairy Tales, What You Can Learn From Them, one of the first blog post I did, but also a review that I had some previously. What I discovered was that I still liked what I did back then. Good enough is good enough. Yes, I have made some changes to enhance the reader experience by using some of the tools that I am now familiar with.

Compare the old blog post with this one and let me know which version you prefer. In what ways can you make your work appear new? What new tools do you have to make the old new again?

Book Review: Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanna Cole

Reviewed by Avil M. Beckford

When was the last time you ventured into the land of make believe? Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanna Cole allowed me to do just that. As an active reader, I was really engaged and found myself getting really annoyed at some of the characters. For example, I became so frustrated with Snow White because she kept on making the same mistakes over and over again, because she thought it would be different, she kept on getting fooled by the disguises of the evil step-mother. Why was I frustrated? Is it because her actions are a metaphor for life, my life, your life, where we seem to find ourselves in the same undesirable situations over and over again until we finally get it.

Some people may think it is a waste of time to read folktales, but for me, I thought it was very worthwhile because it reminded me of simple life lessons such as persistence pays, there is no need to be greedy because there is enough for all of us and instead of competing, why aren’t we creating?

Though Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanna Cole is nearly 800 pages in length, it is still appropriate for people with short attention spans because 200 folk tales are included. Because the stories are so short, and there are so many of them, the reader can start reading at any point in the book. You’ll find familiar tales you read as a child such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves or unfamiliar ones such as East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Crab, Chelm Justice, Baby in the Crib, Salt, The Bunyip, and Faithful Even in Death. As an adult, you’ll approach these stories much different from the way you approached them as a child. You’ll view them with a different set of lens all based on your life experiences. You may find yourself sympathetic toward a character in a tale while you could be frustrated with characters in other tales because they keep on making the same mistake over and over again.

I enjoyed reading this book because I was introduced to stories from all over the world, the majority of which I had never heard about. And, it was amazing to find the same story with a different spin because of cultural differences, such as Rumpelstiltskin and Tom Tit Tot. The folk tales reinforce that we are not as different as we think. The author organizes Best-Loved Folktales of the World by regions and if you are like me, the first section in the table of contents that I rushed to was the Caribbean and was delighted to see an Anansi story from Jamaica among the 200 stories. There were other Anansi stories that originated from the Ashanti Tribe in Africa. For those of you who may not be familiar with the Anansi stories, Brother Anansi is a trickster.

Another good thing about the way the book is organized is the Index of Categories of Tales, which allows the readers to quickly see which tales are appropriate for children, wonderful to read aloud, have a moral, are for women and girls and so on. If you like drama, adventure, romance, mystery, horror or fantasy, there is a tale for you. After reading Best-Loved Folktales of the World, you’ll be reminded of the following:

• Share what you have with others because there is enough for everyone
• Persistence pays
• Operate with honesty and integrity: do not claim the work of others because the truth has a way of coming out and the consequences can be dire
• Asking for help shows strength
• Dream big
• Appreciate what you have instead of pining over what you don’t have

I recommend Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanna Cole because it’s not only a page-turner, but it allows you to tap into your inner child and have some fun. When reading Best-Loved Folktales of the World , read it not only in the context of providing entertainment, but also in the context of what lessons you can learn to apply to your life. So, take a step back in time and remember when….

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For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN, I can assist you with that too.

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Excerpt from March 2008 Ambeck Edge http://www.ambeck.com/newsletters/nl_200803.html

How gracious are you? Are you quick to criticize? Or have you mastered the art of graciousness? Over the past few years I have been working on myself and learning to be less critical of myself and others. I am not there yet and I still have work to do. Two recent events made me realize how important it is to be gracious, and how important it is to give people second chances, when it will not negatively impact us if we did so.

I conduct many interviews so I am always looking for interesting people to interview. In December, Diane Danielson founder of the Downtown Women’s Club agreed to let me interview her. I was very excited because I always want great content to deliver to you. I gave her my conference call in number. At the scheduled time we both called in on time but I couldn’t initiate the record function. There are 40 questions that I ask interviewees so Diane felt that it would be too much for me to take notes, so she graciously offered to schedule the call 15 minutes later and record it for me.

True to her word, she recorded the call and had her assistant email it to me. I got the recorded interview, but forgot to download it to my computer. Just over a month later when I was ready to transcribe the interview, I checked my hard drive and it was at that time I realized my error. I quickly went to the link but could no longer access the recording. I quickly sent an email to Diane’s assistant and learned that the link was good for only a month and she could no longer access it for me. That’s screw up number two. I felt terrible because Diane was extremely generous to me, someone she didn’t know. She had also offered to assist in promoting the blog post with her interview.

I knew that her assistant would have told her what happened, but it was important for me to apologize to her. I sent an email apology, because that was the best way to contact her. She responded later and offered me another opportunity to interview her. I quickly grabbed it, and asked myself if the tables were turned, would I have been that gracious, and I do not think that I would have been, so that’s something in myself that I have to work on. I have to learn to be more gracious and give people second chances if it will not negatively impact me.

If you were in Diane’s situation, would you have given me, or another person who had screwed up like I did, another chance? How might you learn from me and also from Diane? Please keep the conversation flowing, leave a comment for me.

Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentorand subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN, I can assist you with that too.

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When it comes to taking control of your professional development,  how do you rate yourself?

I spent this weekend at Podcamp Toronto, the first time I have ever attended. I am not going to focus on the the sessions I attended, but on what the organizers said during orientation, which resonated with what I have  consistently said on this blog.

Podcamp, the unconference, is different from other conferences because it’s organized by participants for participants. Connie Crosby, one of the key organizers emphasized that participants are responsible for their own learning, that is, take control of their own professional development. With that in mind, participants were encouraged to leave sessions if they felt that they weren’t getting what they needed (A concept called The Rule of Two Feet), and attend others to see if there was a better fit for them.

Other key aspects of Podcamp unconferences are the sharing, paying it forward and flexibility. Presenters who are also participants share their knowledge, wisdom and experiences so that others may learn from them. Many who have attended previous unconferences subsequently present at later unconferences, honoring the idea of paying it forward. And when you attend these unconferences, there are slots left free for sessions that participants can fill if they want to expand and continue a conversation, or start a conversation they see missing. Traditional conferences can learn from the flexibility of unconferences, as well as practice the Rule of Two Feet to increase attendee satisfaction.

A model such as this, fills some very basic needs, and people learn from their peers or those who have traveled further down the path they are on. When the economy slows down, training budgets are the first ones that are  slashed. How do you respond when this occurs? Do you place your professional development on hold, waiting for the economy to pick up? Or are you proactive  and take your professional development into your own hands? I hope it’s the latter and that you are taking care of your continuous learning.

How might you apply the idea of the unconference to your life? What are ways in which you can take care of your professional development? One way is to get a group of friends together, where each friend would present to the others on a topic that they are very knowledgeable and/or passionate about. This could be organized as a potluck dinner because food makes everything better. Each person in the group would benefit, and may even learn about a model or concept that could be applied in their field or industry.

Another way to apply the concept is to teach others what you know, so that they may learn, and in the process you will deepen your knowledge in the subject.

Let’s keep the conversation going, please comment.

Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN, I can assist you with that too.

On February 22, 2010, from noon to 1 pm EST, I will be the guest speaker on a teleseminar on women re-inventing themselves. If you can attend, the call in details are Conference Dial-In:  1-712-432-3100, Conference Code:  932589.

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This post was inspired by the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. On Monday, a friend invited me over for dinner, Family Day, a holiday in a few Canadian provinces including Ontario where I reside. She has been glued to her television watching the competitions. I hadn’t watched any of the competitions so far and took the opportunity to do so.

We watched snowboarding and what an adrenaline rush, and I wasn’t even competing. Of course as a Jamaican-Canadian I was rooting for Mike Robertson, the Canadian who was a very close second behind the American competitor, Seth Wescott. For a while Robertson was leading, but Wescott took the lead at the last minute to win the gold medal. Both Mike Robertson and Seth Wescott are winners in my book.

There are times in life when we give it all we have and yet we do not win. There is no reason to feel badly because we did the best we could with what we had. Unlike the Olympics, in the absence of competition, how do you test yourself to ensure that you show up as your best self most of the time? What activities do you perform daily to ensure that you become better and do not stagnate in your field? How often do you Go for the Gold in life?

Who do you have in your support network to coach, mentor, motivate, inspire, challenge and question you, so that you reach deep within to draw on your reserves to eke out a little bit more even when you think you have nothing more to give?

WE all need a support network of people to help up show up as our best selves most of the time. In what ways are you similar to athletes? What leadership lessons can you learn from athletes?

P.S. I will be rooting for Errol Kerr who makes up the Jamaica Ski Team. Kerr a freestyle skier, is doing the unexpected. It doesn’t matter whether he wins or lose, the point is that he tried and the point is that he showed up, and the point is he went against the grain.

Keep the conversation flowing. Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN, I can assist you with that too.

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The Buffoon and the Countryman

At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a Countryman who stood by said: “Call that a pig’s squeak! Nothing like it. You give me till tomorrow and I will show you what it’s like.” The audience laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared on the stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop. “You fools!” he cried, “see what you have been hissing,” and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

The Buffoon and the Countryman is from Aesop’s Fables but it provides an important lesson to us. When you read the above tale, what immediately comes to mind? What is the moral of the story and how does it relate to your life? Are we so accustomed to conforming, to group think, that we are unable to differentiate between the real thing and an imitation? And, in your work and life, are your solutions creative, or do you only do the “true and tried” methods?

Do you have the courage to take the road less traveled and provide the real thing? Or will you subscribe to the herd mentality and provide imitations? As a spectator, do you applaud imitations and hiss at the real thing, or do you embrace the real thing? Or have you been conforming too long and have become too comfortable? What are some ways that you can shake things up and zig when others zag?

Keep the conversation flowing. Many readers read this blog from other sites, so why don’t you pop over to The Invisible Mentor and subscribe (top on the left side) by email or RSS Feed. I created a Mini Learning Toolkit and you can grab a copy by clicking here.

For your research and writing needs, consider my firm Ambeck Enterprise for white papers, articles, fact sheets, anniversary booklets, you name it. Since I am the best kept secret you may not know this, but I have over 15 years research and writing experience. I KNOW content. And if you cannot figure out which books to read for professional development, I am your WOMAN, I can assist you with that too.

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