 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Over the years, I have seen and recognized
the enormous effect of the CEO’s personality and ‘way of being’ on the
energy of a company. All personalities have limitations and drawbacks.
But when somebody has the top position in a system, the effect of what
they focus on and what they suppress is immense. Whatever a CEO’s
automatic way of relating to the world, whatever their way of dealing
with relationships, or with conflict, or with results and measurement,
or with finances or thinking, gets reflected throughout the
organization. Too many CEOs only allow real creative thinking in the
areas that interest them and simply avoid those areas that appear more
threatening. Now this is human nature, and it’s to be expected. But if
CEOs could begin to see the world in energetic terms, they would see
the suppressive affect of some of their behavior on the energy of their
company and people’s power to execute the very things they most want
implemented. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Of great influence in my thinking has been The Urban Shaman
by Serge Kahlili King. One of his assertions was that “energy flows
where the attention goes.” My work was always shaped by where the CEO
or the leader was putting his or her attention. My life is shaped by
where I’m putting my attention. And with everybody I knew, their lives
were affected by where they placed their attention. What I hadn’t seen
before was that energy accompanied attention and that certain kinds of
attention enhanced energy. In organizations, outward results can be
directly linked to the energy created from where the attention flows. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
During the second year in my transition from a static world to an
energetic-based point of view, I took a training program with a Mexican
teacher, Victor Sanchez, who had studied and lived with the Toltec
Indians in northern Mexico. Victor had developed a coherent conceptual
framework that was very much based on energy. Lorin Smith didn’t have a
lot of explanation for what he did. He just did it, and I saw that he
was working with fundamental energies. Victor Sanchez, in contrast, was
a scholar as well as a teacher. He said that the Toltec Indians
believed that the world does not consist of objects. Rather, they
believe the world consists of interacting energy fields and that the
systems with greatest available energy will prevail.[ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Lorin
Smith had developed his own healing practice based on massage, singing,
dance, telling stories. As I came to know him over time, I saw he could
look at a person, individual, or look at a group, and see exactly what
kind of energy was missing. He could see where the joy was missing, or
where the relationship was missing. He could see whether people didn’t
mean what they said. He could see how their bodies were contracted or
turned against themselves or twisted out of shape. He had an ability to
see what I was not trained to see. I could already sense some of this
in my work with groups, but I was not really construing it in any kind
of energetic framework as he did. And what he was able to produce, in
terms of sick people getting better or groups going from non-directed
to focused, was very fast and remarkable. It was as though he was
breathing life—breathing energy—into them. And he would do whatever he
needed to do, whatever he could think of to do, given his particular
talent, culture, and repertoire. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
This is my
personal journey, how I came from seeing organizations as static
objects, to seeing them as interacting energy fields. It began six
years ago, when I was the owner of a 16-person organization development
and training firm. We helped companies with strategic visioning,
culture change projects, coaching programs, and project effectiveness.
I built the business from a $25.00-a-day practice in 1969 to over $2.5
million in annual revenues in 1993, with the promise of continued
doubling in growth.
I didn’t sleep very well during those
years. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Last night I was sitting in front of CNN, drinking wine, hoping that "in vino veritas" would once again prove true. What was I to do with my future?
I was so sick of making lists, I could have screamed. I wanted, once
and for all, a goal that would bring salvation with it. I wanted a
colleague, friend or lover who would answer all my questions and
provide me with terminal support. I wanted to name a program that would
capture my life’s work, my heart’s desire, and let all my skills gush
forth. Once, and finally for all, to have the world beat a path to my
door.[ Read More]
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OR "You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don't Want" By Charles E. Smith | Bio
A man is sitting in a bar having a beer, eating cashews and at peace
with the world. A pretty woman sits next to him. He buys her a drink
and after a bit she promises him that he can have whatever he wants,
which is usually what he is not getting at the moment in relationship
or what he is getting that he wishes he didn't have. He gets interested
and then someone hits him on the back of the head and he passes out.
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
This is the third in a three-part series. Read the previous post.
Membership in Explainers Anonymous™ is free. We only have
meetings if someone asks. There is no email address, no fax and no
phone. All you need to do is admit you are hopelessly attached to your
own and others’ explanations and that you want to get free. People all
over the world are joining up. Still, people ask me, “What’s the price of my addiction to explaining?” Why worry about it?[ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Explainers Anonymous™ is for people who can’t help explaining they are dedicated victims of circumstance. Explaining, like taking a drink, need not be not a problem. Telling a
story to entertain or teach is wonderful. Sometimes explanations are
really useful (such as in telling the doctor why your hand is bleeding)
or when they warn you of something (such as in looking both ways before
crossing the street because you might get killed). Sometimes they are
useful as long as everyone understands it’s an explanation—and only one
out of a hundred thousand possibilities.[ Read More]
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By Charlie Smith | Bio
Explainers Anonymous™ is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help people addicted to
explaining everything. My name is Charlie. I started it.
It began in 1997 a few months after I retired. I woke one morning and said to myself: "I now have no work, no place to go, no future source of earned income,
no people telling other people about me. The phone doesn't ring and too
many of my e-mails are ads. I diet until 6 o'clock and then eat like a
pig. I go to the health club, work out and lose no weight. I have lists
full of grand schemes swarming over my desk, but the truth is that
almost nothing is actually going on. My big accomplishment of the day
so far was to take a shower."
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By Charlie Smith
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I do not live in the real world. But in a world Fitted to the mind of man.[ Read More]
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Charlie is one of my oldest friends and has always inspired me with his
stand for the possibilities he sees in people and the fact that he has
managed to keep working around the world out of sheer love and
commitment to a future that works for everyone.
As an organizational leadership consultant, he specializes in
supporting people with great ambition to discover what is holding them
back and then help them move forward to unparalleled success. For the
past 35 years, Charlie has worked with leaders and members in
corporations, associations and government agencies throughout the
United States, Canada and Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational
behavior and has taught at Sir George Williams University, the McGill
University School of Education and the McGill Centre for Management
Education. Author of The Merlin Factor: Keys to the Corporate Kingdom,
Dr. Smith has also written numerous articles on personal and
organization development, including “Explainers Anonymous”, “Mentoring
Leaders with Vision", and “Who Stole My Synergy?”
He has also served on Boards of Directors for the Foundation for
Mid-East Communication and the National Peace Institute Foundation. He
co-founded the Middle Road Foundation for Native American Youth in
Taos, New Mexico, and is a past President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Club
of New Mexico. He is currently on the Board of the Aerospace Technology
Working Group.
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