by Kahle Wisdom | Feb 3, 2026 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Business, Podcasts, Miscellaneous
The most advanced secrity threats in the history of the world are now being unleashed against small businesses. You may be next. Security expert Geoge Hyek describes what you can do to protect yourself ....
by Dave Kahle | Jan 1, 2026 | Thinking Better, Miscellaneous
by Dave Kahle Have you seen the advertisements describing the ”Easy Button?” Hit the button and your solution will be easy. Someone will take care of it for you. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Create a Precise Prescription — Lead a Precise Prescription Exercise As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you create a Precise Prescription. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Facilitator, you lead a Precise Prescripon Exercise. One of the most...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Mine Information – Lead a Mining Information Session As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you mine information. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Faciltator, you lead a Mining Information session. As you recall in the “Mine Information” competency, you engage with some...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Precisely Prescribe — Lead a prioritization session As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you Precisely Prescribe. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Facilitator, you lead a Prioritization session. Remember, to prioritize means to select, from a longer list, those items...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business
Brainstorming – Lead a brainstorming session As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you brainstorm. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Facilitator, you lead a brainstorming session. For most meetings, it is the heart of the meeting. It is your responsibility, as the facilitator,...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 11, 2025 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General, Miscellaneous
Nurture a comfortable atmosphere. The atmosphere refers to the emotional climate that exists in the meetings. Are members comfortable and willing to share, or are they guarded and hesitant? Is the focus on the issue at hand, or is the meeting a fortress of personal...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General, Christian-Leadership
Inject yourself into a Learning Event — Select the Content In the Menta-Morphosis® Learning System, the learner injects himself/herself into a learning event. As a Menta-Morphosis® Facilitator, you select the content. When you are facilitating a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
As I was just beginning to build my consulting practice, I learned a lesson that has stuck with me ever since, and shaped much of the training programs, videos and articles that I have produced. It may make a difference in the trajectory of your personal growth and...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Introduction As an individual, we use the Start Right competency. As a facilitator, we “Set the Stage.” When you are facilitating, you are responsible for the quality of the meeting as well as the process and results. That calls for some preparation. The preparation...
by Kahle Wisdom | Oct 30, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Management Principles & Practices
Introduction There are times when we need to consider the impact of our decisions and behaviors on other people. That’s what this competency does. The dictionary definition of analyze is: to examine in detail in order to discover meaning, essential...
by Kahle Wisdom | Oct 17, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development
Introduction Throughout the history of mankind, successful people have been disciplined people. At some point in their development, they have discovered the power that lies in discipline. And they chose, with an act of willfulness and intentionality, to pursue...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 2, 2025 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Force
by Dave Kahle Whenwe are confronted with a problem, our knee-jerk reaction is to fix it. I’m not talking about common day-to-day problems – a faucet begins to leak, we run out of milk, etc.—but rather significant business and career issues. These are problems...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Magnifier #3: More There is always greater value to be wrung out of a situation, question, decision, or problem. We often don’t see that because we don’t look for it. A powerful step in achieving superior results is to continuously look for ways to do so. Look for...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 12, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Sales-Miscellaneous, Christian-Personal Development, Sales-B2B
What’s a PIQ Solution? A curated, vetted solution to one of your Problems, Issues or Questions. Whenever I give a seminar, I encourage people to submit a Problem, Issue or a Question anonymously on a card during the seminar. I gather them and respond to each one....
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Management
Introduction Your role as a facilitator is to bring out the best in the group and arrive at the best solutions possible, given the variables. The one thing you can’t do is act for them. You’ve brought them to the spot where you’ve made...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 24, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Magnifier #1: Influence Your Subconscious Introduction Our subconscious mind is a powerful thinking tool. It is, however, unpredictable and impossible to manage. We can’t always predict when or how it will work on our issues and provide us with additional insights. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 11, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Ask Good Questions Introduction A good question is the primary thinking tool. A good question is the key that unlocks the potential in our minds and forms the basis for the entire Menta-Morphosis® system. Most of us are comfortable and somewhat adept at asking...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 9, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Mining information from other people. This refers to information that exists from other people. Typically, this would exist in conversations with other people: interviews, interrogations, and content prepared by other people: reports, slide sets, blog posts,...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 8, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Introduction This refers to information that exists on it’s own, without the need to consult someone else to interpret it. Typically, this would be files of some kind: Spread sheets, surveys, spec sheets, computer files, etc. The challenges here are: To find and...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 8, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Information from Yourself. Introduction: This includes memories, judgements that we make, as well as our thoughts, our feelings, our experiences, our values, our skills and attitudes, and our opinions. Most people have far more wisdom and knowledge than they give...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 5, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Introduction: The Magnifier Disciplines are the final major component of our Menta-Morphosis Mind Software system. These are a set of habits which, when conscientiously applied, make the thinking process more effective. Like a magnifying glass makes things look bigger...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 4, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Introduction: When we consolidate, we mesh together two or more separate ideas into one new statement. From the Oxford Dictionary: “combine (a number of things) into a single more effective or coherent whole.” Used for Like all MM competencies, Consolidating is used...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 4, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Introduction: Following a Mining Information session, we are often left with a list of nuggets. If we are mining gold in South Africa, we’d have to melt those nuggets into gold bars befor they would be useful. In this Menta-Morphosis competency, we turn the list of...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 3, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development
Introduction: Focus the discipline of allocating mental time to the process and to the process alone. It is one of the constant keys to effective thinking. When you focus, you “give your sole attention to one issue — pay particular attention to…” In other...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 3, 2025 | Thinking Better
Introduction: A tactic is a technique, question, or an action which can be used to bring clarity, understanding and focus to the thinking project. “Write it Down” is one such tactic. It simply refers to the discipline of capturing your thoughts in writing. Adding...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 23, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business
Introduction Image a big block of ice. Then, imagine swinging a sledgehammer and smashing that block of ice into dozens of tiny pieces. Each piece can be dealt with on its own, but the sum total of all the pieces made up the original block. That’s what...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business
Introduction: Discontent provides emotional power and fuels the will to enable us to expend the energy necessary to change our behavior. It is the driving force behind much of the progress the world has made. “Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business
Introduction: If our plans were perfect, and if our ability to implement them were perfect, we wouldn’t need to reflect. But, alas, that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, rarely does a new effort succeed without some fine-tuning and adjustments along the way. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business
Introduction: This is the ultimate reason for the entire Menta-Morphosis® process. If we don’t act differently, then the thinking process which led to our action has been a waste of time and energy. Sooner or later, we must do what we said we would do. ...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Introduction: To Prioritize means to select, from a longer list, those items that are more important, more desirable, or more worthy of our attention than others. In other words, we turn a long list into a short list. Used for Whenever we want to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Christian-Business, Christian-Leadership
Introduction: A Precise Prescription is a written statement of exactly what we will commit to doing. It often signifies the end of the thinking process. Used for This is used to help bridge the gap from idea (the conclusion to which your process has brought us) to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Competency: Mine InformationIntroduction:In almost every thinking project, we’ll need to engage with some information and identify important elements contained within it. We call this ‘mining information’, and use a mining metaphor to help understand it.There are...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Introduction It was Plato who said, “The beginning is the most important part of any work.” And the famous 20th Century educator, John Dewey, said, “The nature of the problem fixes the end of thought, and the end controls the process of thinking.” Truly, how we start...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business
Competency: Brainstorm Introduction: This is the competency used to create a long list of possibilities. It is often an important step in moving from what ‘is” to what “should be.” While brainstorming is typically done in a group, so that the group members...
by Dave Kahle | May 15, 2025 | Thinking Better, Christian-Significance, Growth-Personal Development, Christian-Business, Christian-Kingdom issues
by Dave Kahle This must be one of the saddest of all situations; You have a business or a career forwhich God has great plans, but those plans are never realized because youlimited God’s involvement in them. You end your career with just a fraction of the impact...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 24, 2021 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development, Christian-Leadership
Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world The pace of change has increased, the growth in complexity has multiplied, and information has proliferated at an unprecedented pace. We are in extraordinary times. And...
by Dave Kahle | Dec 19, 2019 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management
There is probably no one area of your business that is more important for you to prioritize than your customers and prospects. Fortunately, it’s also the area of your job that will make the biggest impact on your performance. From my personal experience as a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 24, 2019 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-Sales Management
Every sales organization understands that their sales force – it’s health and strength – is the company’s primary strategic asset. Most astute principals and chief sales officers realize that in this very competitive economic environment, those companies who sell...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 24, 2018 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Sales Force, Sales-B2B
Planning is one of the foundational principles for sales success: You’ll always be more effective if you think about what you do before you do it. Can you imagine a football team not creating a game plan or not practicing before the big game? Can you imagine a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 23, 2015 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Christian-Kingdom issues
As a veteran sales trainer, one of the obstacles that I constantly confront in the folks with whom I am working is “mindless habits.” In other words, almost everyone can sell better, or manage better, or lead better, if they could overcome their pre-existing habits....