Maguire here.

I’m new to this blog thing so bear with me while I get my feet wet. You know, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately – Washington, Phoenix, Chile, London, Dubai…all over the place. Mind you, traveling is not new to me. I’ve been globe hopping for most of my career (and that’s a considerable amount of time). Careers I should say. I get around.

I’ve been a corporate vassal and a corporate VP, a disc jockey and a program director. I’ve jammed with Kings (BB and Albert, that is) and queens (the inestimable Ella Fitzgerald, Queen of Scat) and shared a board room with Colonel Sanders. I helped found FedEx and consulted with a couple of presidents (not the new guy, thank goodness). These days I’m Chairman of the Board for a thing – a very BIG thing — called The Elevision Network (more on that in upcoming blogs).

I have been around, truth be told, and a truth that has stuck with me in recent travels is that the internet…the worldwide web, if you will…has brought us all within blogging distance of one another. Never has every corner of the world been more accessible than it is now.

Ironically (wait for the other shoe) we’re actually more isolated from one another than ever before. The world is flat, but so are many of our interactions with others, our relationships, our passions. We are fast becoming a nation of flatliners.

Inexcusable.

In my sessions with corporate leaders, multi-cultural business groups, and individuals the world over I speak of how to empower success and achieve greatness. Ways to improve productivity and message effectiveness and communication.

The “secret” to success – to achieving greatness if you will, is not a secret at all…it’s communication. And effective communication comes down to three essentials I call The Maguire Absolutes:

Feelings — passion, enthusiasm
Attitudes – a sense of purpose, a lion’s share of self esteem
Relationships – empathy, cooperation, respect

In a day and age where contact is achieved with a quick click of an onscreen icon, there is no excuse for not communicating. We have the means. Now we need to work on the feelings, the attitude, the relationships that make communication…well… “click.” Think about it.

Until next time.