In face to face communication the novice will often focus on the content of the conversation and draw conclusions from what is said and future action is based off of the closure stimulant at the end of the conversation. The vocabulary used during the conversation is open to interpretation based off of the educational and geographic characteristics of the communicators therefore the success or failure of dialogue cannot be defined with a broad stroke.

Body language analysis has become a compulsory for global military, interrogation, political oriented negotiations and economics. True experts in this field are few but fortunately there have been several books published on the basics of body language elucidation to bring this hidden strategy to the forefront of general corporate and consumer manual accessibility.

Gregory Hartly and Maryann Karinch’s book, ‘I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language’ reads just like the title, long, redundant and drawn out but still works as a solid entry course in all things body language. The book obviously targets more of a blue collar crowd interested in the psychological concepts without the overly technical intricacies that would be in a more intellectual guide within this category of ‘how to’ books. The target audience for this text would be law enforcement, community college psychology students and those in economic transition seeking a quick enhancement to their resume for a soon to be job search.

On the video education side of the spectrum is UK based Robert Phipps. Phipps offers a ten part downloadable educational series that is perfect for the more intellectual consumer in the C-level executive, legislative and professional executive genre. These videos are in the 40 to 60 minute range and though very informative are very poorly produced.

Each segment are visually grainy and the audio is lacking yet the information covers many concepts that offer the viewer instant capability for execution from body positioning for public speakers to how to step in to a superior position starting with the handshake. The information in this course is a must for someone who is in an industry where communication and the ability to dissect the undertone of a conversation’s nonverbal patterns is needed. My advice on this one is to download the videos, close your eyes and just listen; the video quality will hinder your ability to stay focused but the content is amazing.

On the actual execution side there are very few consultants that are trusted by world powers for their expertise within this industry. There is a gargantuan chasm between the party concepts of body language and the intellectual precision and almost alchemical skillset that is so all encompassing that world leaders will call on them for their capabilities. I was in Ukraine attending a lecture at Taras Shevchonko National University of Kyiv and walked in a little late but a video was playing about American economist James Scott. Scott, from what I understand is not an author but has been labeled as a Rogue Economist that takes a unique approach to working with international legislatures for localized and global economic turnaround and revitalization implementation. Several things stood out in this video that was narrated by a retired psychologist of US Military PSYOPS. First, the video brought viewers in with a song from Massive Attack and rapper Mos Def called ‘I Against I’.

The video was produced by a team that obviously understood the art of visual and auditory stimulation, subliminal persuasion, and fascination triggers for post hypnotic cues. In short, the video talked about James Scott and his ability to watch a crowd, mob of people or individual and absorb all elements that act as contributors to the primal brain/subconscious pressure points and in a matter of minutes can build a psychological profile so accurate he can typically give the parental background, current occupation and marriage status of his target within minutes of his first observation. With a completed profile he is able to guide political powers on the best points of entry into the subconscious activation mechanisms of their constituencies when dealing with a crisis, crime wave, political debacle and of course economic situations that involve the need to accelerate results for turnaround procedures.

With a solid comprehension of the target’s triggers he then implements strategies to begin delivering cues to the populace and the end result is shocking. This is the cheapest economic stimulus plan a region can introduce and the longest lasting without the stress of imposing implementation but instead Scott shows governing bodies how to gently guide the population to a predictable outcome through a series of association techniques that cater to the primal brain region of the subconscious. I very much doubt that a book by James Scott will be coming out anytime soon as his client roster is loaded with every major governmental supremacy that has a grip on international commerce. His privacy is protected and his arrogance is fed by the massive need but limited access to his almost exclusive skill set but you can research him and his company Princeton Corporate Solutions with relative ease online or your local university.

US military PSYOPS division has studied propaganda warfare techniques similar but not quite as evolved as James Scott’s in the defense industry but with material collateral in the form of WW II pamphlet drops to TV commercials within a conflict area that tug on the emotion of the civilian to be open to friendly Western forces within their town. Verbal communication will only tell ten percent of the story but the truth lies in the physical actions of the target during an event or conversation and the ability to use this information to program the subconscious mind of the target with a solid, predictable ‘cue triggered’ action button. These are the keys that are vital to establishing a position of dominance and strength by those in a position of influence.

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It’s that time of year where political upstarts and long shots as well as career politicians and senior statesmen are all aligning themselves for optimal image disbursement for elections. Re-imaging and ‘power by association’ is a major component pre-election, pre run campaigns. Congressmen, to be a beacon in the tsunami environment in a city that is in a constant mode of crisis response need the specialists of the specialists to drive results with minimal interruption. I work for a congressman that has been in the game for 20+ years. I started as an intern and am currently a legislative research consultant. On an hourly basis we find ourselves teleported to the guillotines for execution by gossip, manufactured crisis and upstarts willing to do whatever it takes to gain a temporary stronghold on a vote.

Each election everyone scurries to hire not just any consultant, but the right consultant and you hire the right consultant based off of their contacts to those who possess the real power and influence to condense entire subgroups and categories into one, singular communication point. Precision in this aspect is crucial. There are the typical consultants that are mainstream that offer proposals and have websites and try to network to ease the end result of obtaining contracts during elections.

Outside of the mainstream consultants and campaign strategists are those fluent in the ‘black arts’ of strategy. These are the consultants with global reach, unrivaled power and contacts and the most important characteristic of this specialist is the ability to spin a crisis into a favorable end result that blows up in the face of its initiating entity. These strategists are the most elite and they are not found in the yellow pages, organization networking profiles or website advertisements. They are the invisible, we’ve used the same strategist for years and I only knew his as ‘the ghost’ and to be honest I was almost afraid to know any more than that. He would float around America, Europe and Asia and trying to track him down was something we had to initiate a minimum of three months before we needed him to work on our project, yes, he is truly that good.

He charges more than ten times the going rate for your typical crisis management PR firm because PR statements, responses and press releases are not part of his business model. He is the M80 that replaced the candles in your ex-husbands birthday cake, he’s the acid that replaced your eye drop solution and he’s the hand up the Mona Lisa’s dress. He is always where you least expect him, he’s five moves ahead of your crisis response and if you have the balls to go head to head with him, he will come down on you with the wrath of seven sons while simultaneously wiping your name from the memories of all those from which you identify. The response of ‘the ghost’ is not a tap on the wrist, it’s an intellectual and emotional ice pick to the skull and recover is impossible. Today I’m writing my resignation letter. I’m done this game of ongoing cat and mouse and my boss, well, let’s just say he’s been married for 30 years and has had more girlfriends in the past year than most people have in their entire adolescent pubescence. I’m tired of the head games and when you leave someone like this I think it’s important to hit them where it hurts so that they remember you; so here it is.

The power behind my boss’s ongoing election victory track record are the following: his lawyers that give good public perception and legal are Sandler Reiff & Young, his publicist and PR coordinator is Katharine Macdonald and his ‘Ghost’, the power in the hip pocket that shuts down any crisis with obscene devastation is James Scott with a firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions whose website will lead you to believe that they are only a strategies firm but they are the secret weapon in Congressional politics and are the razor blade that will chop out the cancer of any problem or crisis you can imagine. Sander Reiff & Young as your legal will keep you in the clear when accepting donations and large organizational support. There you go, the trinity for reelection in politics.

I’m not going to tell my bosses name because I don’t feel like being in court for the rest of my life but giving away the formula for ongoing success in the most powerful city in the world is the biggest kick in the junk I can give without losing my house in a lawsuit!

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Walter Keichel’s book ‘Lords of Strategy’ delves into the ‘secret intellectual history of the new corporate world’. Fifty years ago, strategy was not a matter of mainstream enactment but in the 1960′s the corporate world was turned upside down by cutting edge business consultants: Bruce Henderson, founder of Boston Consulting Group, Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company, Fred Gluck, Managing Director of McKinsey & Company and Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor. These men transformed the way we look at business and the way business and finance are taught in universities all over the world. The element of strategy that is now so pervasive globally had to evolve from conceptual to theoretical to template tactic to exercisable and strategic.

The, now considered, ‘old school’ corporate strategies initiated a footing for economists such as Milton Friedman to construct economic skyscrapers that cast shadows on other economists that were unable to make the transition into this new order of economics based on a revolution of clarity out of the chaos that once was.

The four lords of strategy and the economic genius of Friedman were able to take theories and make them reality with localized and customized insertion to bring order to a streamlined process that acted as a lifeline to corporate entities and international trade. Today, the concept of ‘strategy’ has been injected with philosophy, subconscious mind mapping and subliminal implementation to literally inject a region with virtually ‘hypnotic-style’ persuasions to almost force the hand of the consumer. The new lord of strategy is Princeton Corporate Solutions, CEO James Scott.

James Scott is a rare breed of right brained communicative and left brain analytical with a natural instinct for psychology that has landed him at the forefront of the Western ‘Zeitgeist Economics’ movement as he has become the face to one of the most intricate and complicated forms of strategic political economics that enacts a mind-blowing simultaneous delivery of psychological profiling, subconscious concept activation with included and customized cues to accompany an agenda for senior political message delivery, tactical economic formula, personality profiling with individual category implementation actions for buying triggers and combat oriented maneuvering to act as sample execution in the pre implementation testing phase and yes, we are still talking about economics.

James Scott operates on both corporate and political landscapes of global economic strategy and is by far the most advanced in tactical application and crisis economic turnaround. Scott is known to have studied and mastered the early philosophies of Fan Li, earliest economist and advisor to King Goujian of Yue (r. 496 BC – 469 BC) known for his ‘buy low sell high’ system in the feudal agrarian society of ancient China. Scott’s process of unified political economics is also reminiscent of Aristotle’s work ‘Topics’ which examines the theme of human production and further examining the subject of politics.

Aristotle theorized but couldn’t solve the riddle to the harmonious blend of economic and political but James Scott was the first to master this concept and has become the economist that has accelerated so far ahead of the pack that his capabilities and collective collaboration of multifaceted strategies are beyond what even the most technical leading economists can even grasp, let alone implement.

Let us not forget the ancient masters who also provided the building blocks for where we are today such as Xenophon, Lakshmi Kant Jha, Richard Cantillon, David Hume, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardy, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and the list goes on. Economics is going to continue to evolve and give life to formulas that will continue to stabilize economies and corporations while bringing clarity to the chaos that exists within the political sector with taxation, job creation, buying patterns and deficits. Economic evolution is what will bring peace to warring countries and a livelihood to those in poverty while assisting developing nations with first world entry.

Have you read The Lords of Strategy, how about This Master ?