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All Things Intriguing

by Dr. Raymond L. Newkirk, Psy.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., CFP

This Podcast has been more than seven decades in the making. In this sense, it is historical. We cover a range of topics from Workplace Relationships and Executive Spirituality to Applied Moral Wisdom and Coaching and Consulting. We will even discuss Systems Thinking, Rapid Problem Solving, Intelligent Systems Design, and many other Intriguing questions. Keeping things lively, we will discuss these topics from the Behavioral and Spiritual Perspectives.

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Episodes

  1. S2:E4 The Secret of Growth

    Today, we take a deeper look at the vital role that Applied Moral Wisdom plays in our lives. We will see that it occupies the core of our personal development and informs the direction that leads to the fulfillment of each of our lives. Applied Moral Wisdom is actually the Framework of our lives.

  2. S2:E3 Applied Moral Wisdom

    Have you ever wondered how to simplify your emotional life? It all begins with learning to apply "moral wisdom" - to gain some insights join me on this episode of All Things Intriguing!

  3. S2:E2 - Mastering Assertiveness

    The secrets of mastering assertiveness

  4. S2:E1 Welcome Back - Let's Talk about Coaching

    It's been awhile...soft-skills are everything.

  5. Wherever You Are That is Where You Are

    Being a Stranger in a Strange Land is nothing new. It was a great work of Science Fiction by Robert A. Heinlein back in 1962. Strangers in a Strange Land is also an excellent commentary on the modern age by Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap the former Archbishop of Philadelphia. Although one is a work…

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  6. Living in a Strange Land Episode Two: The Good, The Bad and the Very Ugly

    Forty-Seven years ago, I wrote a book entitled Elephant Shit, the Road to Right Reason. It was a humorous book about life. “Chicken Shit” occurs when someone ask you how your new car is doing. Bullshit occurs when someone ask you who will win the next Super Bowl. Then there is Elephant Shit. This...

  7. Living in a Strange Land Episode One: Wherever You Are That is Where You Are.

    Do you ever feel like a Stranger in a Strange Land? Some people feel this way most of their lives while others feel this way occasionally. Still others feel this way at times of peak experience when changes dominate their lives, both good and bad. I am not talking here about feeling out-of-touch...

  8. Episode Seventeen: Validating the CSF, Employee Friendly Technology, to Eliminate the Technological Barrier

    There are a lot of barriers to the use of technology at work and home. Complexity, Cost, and Convenience are the “3Cs” of friendly technology whether at home or on the job in the workplace. If we wish to increase convenience, we need to decrease complexity and cost. This means that you can have...

  9. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Sixteen: Validating the Critical Success Factor: Insightful Flexibility Fitting to All Employees

    If you want to Achieve Exceptional Performance, learn to unify your insights with the personal power of your Intelligent Flexibility to deliver something exceptional. In this way, you will have mastered the art and skill of Insightful Flexibility. Some people enjoy plenty of flexibility but the...

  10. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Fifteen: Validating the Critical Succcess Factor of Substance Over Form

    A preference for “Substance over Form” makes sense unless you have no substance to offer and pursue form because bitter emotions like disappointment are more important than results such as success. There are so many Critical Success Factors identified by the organization that to list them all…

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  11. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Fourteen: Qualifying the Critical Success Factor: “Authentic Solution.

    If you do not know what the problem is, how can you know that you have a problem at all? If there is a problem and you do not know that something is wrong, you have a bigger problem. At the very least, you need to discover why you do not know that a problem exists. Both problems require a…

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  12. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Thirteen: Qualifying the Critical Success Factor: “Good Enough Solution”?

    There are unbelievably creative solutions that cost a lot. There are also “good enough” solutions that cost much less but actually solvethe problem good enough to meet requirements. What makes sense to you? This is an easy one: What’s in your wallet? Companies spend more money on problem-solving...

  13. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Twelve: Building the Professionalism of My Teams Means More Than Paying More.

    Professionalism flows from attitude. Not everything great and wonderful is about money. Actually, money flows from things that are great and wonderful and even poor and terrible. I would not consider a lousy manager as a professional nor a lousy ballerina as a professional. I would expect…

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  14. Achieving-Exceptional-Performance Episode 11: Levering the Potential of Multi-Cultural Teams to Achieve Exceptional Performance

    Diversity, pluralism, multi-culturalism, multiracialism, ethnic inclusiveness, intercontinental, de-segregated, and on and on and on. These are words that remind us of the differences among human beings. The differences make each culture distinct. They are real. Unfortunately, we too often forget...

  15. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Ten: Assisting My Organization with Building Employee Competence

    For performance to become exceptional, many factors must come together at the right time and under the right circumstances with the right people using the right technology following the right plan. Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important…

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  16. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Nine: You are a Critical Success Factor

    Many jobs are not lovable. They just aren’t. No matter what. No matter how many times you tell yourself that you love your job, if you know in your heart that you don’t, you really don’t, no matter what. Self-esteem matters. Don’t kid yourself. Improve yourself and move on. There is something...

  17. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Eight: Employing Abundant Applied Intuitive Solutions™ To Rapidly Solve Performance Problems.

    Organizations spend a considerable amount of time on problem solving. Even for the same problems that reoccur yearly with the same or different colleague, problems seem to never go away. Demands of current business competition require teams to adopt a more rapid process for problem solving based…

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  18. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Seven: Virtual Solution in Achieving Exceptional performance

    Exceptional organizations understand that the old six to eight step problem solving process needs to be replaced by something that closes the gap between problem definition and solution specification. As a competitive strategy, organizations continuously attempt to design rapid processes that...

  19. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Six: Standards of Performance Are Personal

    A person can work up to the standard he set for himself or down to the standard others set for him. In either case, the person only has himself to blame whenever he achieves less than he is capable. Life is the great arbitrator of performance. You only have a short time to deliver Exceptional...

  20. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Five: Right Action Accomplishes More Than Smart Speech.

    There are people who work hard to achieve Exceptional Performance. There are also people who could care less about achieving Exceptional Performance. If you had a choice, who would you hire? Why is that? Obvious, right? Great things rarely happen by accident. Delivering Exceptional Performance is...

  21. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Four: Achieving Exceptional Performance Management

    Exceptional Organizations continuously study the organizations that move beyond the essentials as a common practice. Exceptional organizations continuously acquire specific kinds of relevant knowledge about the essentials of exceptional performance.

  22. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Three: Establishing the Critical Success Factors for EP.

    Begin your process of Achieving Exceptional Performance by establishing the Critical Success Factors of the organization as the building blocks of exceptional performance. Success with this requires you to investigate the history of your organization. It would be interesting to note the projects...

  23. Achieving Exceptional Performance Episode Two: Clarifying the Critical Success Factors for EP.

    Begin by designing the environment that enables the organization to function as a system that transforms the ordinary into the exceptional. The Critical Success Factors are key to Achieving Exceptional Performance. Encourage the development of an environment that enables managers and their teams…

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  24. Achieving Exception Performance Episode One: What is EP?

    Since Exceptional Performance requires exceptional people doing exceptional acts consistently at exceptional times, how can I assist my organization in achieving exceptional performance? So many conditions come together at the right time so that the right person achieves exceptional results that...

  25. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Sixteen

    Congratulations, we have reached the last Episode in this Series about Applied Moral Wisdom. If you are a committed Existentialist, you already understand that human beings possess deep, intrinsic desires that transcend earthly life. Existential Hunger manifest such desires in the perennial drive...

  26. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Fifteen

    The application of Moral Wisdom raises a person above oneself.. Through the application of Moral Wisdom, a person recognizes the “Unalienable” nature of human worth, a nature that by existing transcends the malleable dictates and pronouncements of all civil authorities at whatever level of...

  27. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Fourteen

    Trickery, coercion, deception, lying, injury, humiliation, mockery, isolation, theft, false witness, and even murder are the strategies commonly employed by people who are indifferent to the fruits of Moral Wisdom. These people are not guided by a well-developed conscience. Nor do people like…

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  28. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Thirteen

    “Everybody Hurts Sometime,” so the REM song reminds us. Life is like this: One day great; the next day not so great. This is when gentleness becomes less desirable and simplicity more desirable. Sadly, life does not come with a menu. We need to achieve simplicity ourselves by applying Moral…

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  29. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Twelve

    Justice, Fidelity, Self-Care, Prudence, the four Cardinal Virtues. These are the hinges that open the door to a life well lived. How best to nurture them, apply them, and value them is a question best answered by those who have made the decision to love one another. So, what do you think? If you...

  30. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary Part Eleven

    Moral Wisdom can become complicated. As we move deeper into adulthood, we can begin to refine our Moral Wisdom to discern the corrective guilt that enables us to adopt morally wise behaviors from self-punishing guilt that emerges from life’s childhood interjections. Applied Moral Wisdom is not...

  31. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Ten

    If you write one page a day every day of the year for one full year, you will have produced one large book or two books of more than 180 pages each. A little effort goes a long way. Desire, consistency, dedication, intellect and will fortified by the Cardinal Virtues produces a great life that is...

  32. Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Nine

    Gentleness requires constant attention. Wherever love abounds, gentleness flows. That which connects us to the loveliness of life is treated with gentleness in that it leads us to the gift of friends and family, the Scared, the home of our spiritual life. In Living the Gentle Life, therefore, we...

  33. Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Eight

    The love of noise and excitement in modern civilization is due in part to the fact that people are unhappy on the inside. Noise exteriorized them, distracts them, and makes them forget their worries for the moment. There is an unmistakable connection between an empty life and a hectic pace. ─...

  34. Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Seven

    When I speak about the Spirituality of Executives, I am speaking about the intrinsic qualities that illuminate Moral Wisdom. These qualities include the Cardinal Virtues and the derivative values such as respect, gratitude, fairness, integrity, decency, honesty, kindness, generosity, love, and...

  35. Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Six

    The prerequisite for Applied Moral Wisdom is a well-formed conscience that characterizes the maturity of adulthood. The Principles of Right Action guide the application of Moral Wisdom. Conscience is never perfect. We all error and previous learning and other influences can hinder the development...

  36. Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Five

    Since Consistency of Thought and Action in Applied Moral Wisdom is a good thing, why are so many people inconsistent? They are not. A great number of people ARE consistent in Thought and Action. Unfortunately, they consistently make the poor decision to do the wrong actions. Life is like a box of...

  37. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary of the Series Applied Moral Wisdom Part Four

    Conscience exists along a continuum from infantile to enlightened. Very few people live at the extremes of the Continuum. Enough do, however, to make all the difference in the world, for good or bad. What’s in your Conscience? Earlier, we discussed the Cardinal Virtues. These are the hinges that...

  38. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary Part Three

    Maturity is not a matter age. It is a matter of enjoying an informed conscience through the living of a virtuous life. Rather than living as a spiritual person, a person of gentleness, we become more interested in living up to the standards of a competitive world in which only winners are valued…

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  39. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten: Summary Part Two

    The sentiment “Forever Forward” is a call to move forward, to grow, to forever develop oneself for relationship. It is a sentiment ignited by the deep desire to love and be loved, to connect with other human beings, to connect and be respectfully acknowledged. We cannot move forward in growth if…

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  40. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Ten Part One: Mystery of the Individual Life

    Think about how we live, how we move, how we learn, how we reflect, how we enjoy relationships, how we eat, drink and celebrate. Everything has an order to it. There is an order to existence on earth. Life, living, and death all follow one from the other. For human beings, Moral Wisdom makes this...

  41. Applied Moral Wisdom for a Deeper Human Life Episode Nine: Gentleness is not an Accident.

    Gentleness requires constant attention. For the deeply spiritual person, gentleness is the guiding attitude. Deeply spiritual people see all creatures as suffused by a Cosmologically Divine Love. For the deeply spiritual person, therefore, every person evokes a gentleness formed in love.…

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  42. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Eight: Living the Gentle Life

    If you wish to enjoy the fruits of personal development, you must take action that you understand, learn to tame your restlessness, nurture an appetite for solitude, contemplate the mystery of your existence, and seek silence to foster self-renewal whenever you can so you can lover more and hate...

  43. Episode Five: Finding Consistency in Thought and Action

    Since Consistency of Thought and Action in Applied Moral Wisdom is a good thing, why are so many people inconsistent? They are not. A great number of people ARE consistent in Thought and Action. Unfortunately, they consistently make the poor decision to do the wrong actions. Life is like a box of...

  44. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Seven: Living the Gentle Life to Enjoy Executive Success

    When I speak about the Spirituality of Executives, I am speaking about the intrinsic qualities that illuminate Moral Wisdom. These qualities include the Cardinal Virtues and the derivative values such as respect, gratitude, fairness, integrity, decency, honesty, kindness, generosity, love, and...

  45. Applied Moral Wisdom Episode Six: From Fear to Conscience

    The discussion about Right Action versus conscience is historical. For example, can a person still be good if that person commonly violates an ethical rule like “telling lies is bad”? Can an Internal Moral Monitor be at odds with one’s informed conscience? "Virtue and Conscience point to a shared...

  46. The Conscience Continuum

    Conscience exists along a continuum from infantile to enlightened. Very few people live at the extremes of the Continuum. Enough do, however, to make all the difference in the world, for good or bad. What’s in your Conscience? Human beings live in an environment that supports their existence in...

  47. From Applied Moral Wisdom to Union, Freedom and Truth in Life

    Maturity is not a matter age. It is a matter of enjoying an informed conscience through the living of a virtuous life. “Life is short.” I’ve heard this most of my life. Now I am old enough to know that it is true. Now I wonder where the years went. “When all is said and done”, I see that building...

  48. Conscience, Immaturity & Childishness at Work

    The sentiment “Forever Forward” is a call to move forward, to grow, to forever develop oneself for Relationship. It is a sentiment ignited by the deep desire to love and be loved, to connect with other human beings, to connect and be respectfully acknowledged. Growth occurs through the…

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  49. Building Character through Applied Moral Wisdom

    Life moves on rapidly. It become complicated, confusing, and occasionally even discouraging. Much of the time we want life to be simpler, relaxing, and sensible. People chase happiness without knowing how to be happy and they seek relationships without knowing how to actually form good ones....

  50. Virtuality is Systems Thinking in Action

    Vituality™ releases an emerging paradigm of 21st Century Problem-Solving technology. Dr. Newkirk discusses the challenge of problem-solving as an artifact of the 15th Century and how he employs the new technologies to harvest a universe of evidence-based solutions and deliver these in rapid...

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This Podcast has been more than seven decades in the making. In this sense, it is historical. We cover a range of topics from Workplace Relationships and Executive Spirituality to Applied Moral Wisdom and Coaching and Consulting. We will even discuss Systems Thinking, Rapid Problem Solving, Intelligent Systems Design, and many other Intriguing questions. Keeping things lively, we will discuss these topics from the Behavioral and Spiritual Perspectives.

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Dr. Raymond L. Newkirk, Psy.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., CFP

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