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Leadership Quotes, Success Principles, and Optimum Achievement

I just put together some of the best leadership quotes, success principles, and optimum achievement advice.  Watch and listen to the video above and then tell me what you thought by leaving a comment below.

I enjoy leaders and the leadership lifestyle. Do you have a great leadership quote?  Why not share it by leaving it in the comment box below?

Enjoy,

Mark Edward Brown

Mark Edward Brown now a Certified Coach

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This is my 300th post on the Mark Edward Brown Blog, I have almost twice as many comments (599) dating back to 2007 when I started this blog.

I am doubly proud of both my achievement as a blogger and also of my new certification as a Coach.

I have been very busy and began the process to achieve this particular certification before I left Korea last December.  Coaching is always something that I have enjoyed doing and I have been doing it in one form or another for most of my life.

If you read much of this blog you may have wondered what I do for a hobby or if I have any spare time, I can assure you that I don’t.  Aside from my Family and career as a Leader in the Military I guard and regulate my time to it’s fullest capability.

Becoming a coach was and still is the right thing to do and I will begin to coach clients on a part time basis very soon.  I have teamed up with Steve Fagan from Fagan & Associates and you can see my introduction at the bottom of this page:

http://www.faganandassociates.com/Specialized-Consult-Services.html

The team that I have joined are all strategic thinkers and self-leaders, I am priviledged to count them as colegues and friends as well.

I will be blogging more in the future about coaching topics until I get my coaching blog up so stay tuned.

If you have questions about coaches or coaching be sure to leave me a comment and ask.  Also “Like” this post and tweet about it as well.

Most of all – thanks for reading,

Mark Edward Brown – Leadership Coach

Army Warns About Dangerous Smartphone Abilities

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For today’s Soldiers the dangers of battle are everywhere.  No longer do dangers lurk in faraway places or in foreign lands.  From the bright eyed, new recruit to the seasoned leader the hazards could be in the palm of their hand or even in their pocket.

Recently the Army has warned it’s troops to turn off the geo tag feature and other gps “tagging” types of technology that could cause a potential risk regarding giving away ones location on a military base or in a deployed environment overseas.

“There are a number of location-based social media applications and platforms, including Foursquare, Gowalla, SCVNGR, Shopkick, Loopt and Whrrl, currently on the market. They use GPS features, typically in the user’s phone, to publish the person’s location and offer rewards in the form of discounts, badges or points to encourage frequent check-ins.”

Geo-tagging risks extend to family members as well.  If you are the spouse or child of a military member and have a smartphone with the geo-tagging feature enabled you run the risk of revealing where your home is, where your child’s school is and many other aspects of information that you may wish to remain unknown to the general public.

In addition to the applications mentioned above Facebook is in the process of rolling out Timeline, a new layout that includes a map tab of all the locations a user has tagged.

Facebook can be dangerous because some people have hundreds of friends that they may never have actually met in person.  The dangers in this situation are that if a suspicious person views someone’s map tab on Facebook, they can see everywhere that person has tagged a location. You can see the restaurants they frequent, the gym they go to everyday, even the street they live on if they’re tagging photos of their home.

Keep in mind that cell and smartphones are not all bad.  They allow a level of convenience and efficiency that have not previously existed in our lives.  The major drawback that I dislike about them is that they can be tracked or traced to reveal your location even when you phone is turned off!  Thats a subject of a different variety and I’ll leave that for another time.

I am curious to know if you use the “Geo-Tagging” feature of your phone or if you consider features like this dangerous?  Leave me a comment and let me know, also share this article with others to raise their awareness of this situation.

Always with my best regards,

Mark Edward Brown

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