Why This Effort?

Understanding the Rainmaker
Rainmaker Types
--Rainmaker Top Guns
--Rainmaker Support Talent
--Rainmakers to Discover
--Rainmakers to Empower
--Job Seekers as Rainmakers

Companies as Rainmakers in a Collaborative Environment

Empowering Rainmakers through Collaboration
Let's Double Top Gun Productivity
Even Top Guns have Limitations
Overcoming Top Gun Limitations
New Synergy Paths for Top Guns
The Threat of Non Action
Incubating Newbie Rainmakers

Creating Systems to Empower Our Community
Our Virtual Networking System
Our MasterMind Teams
Our Business Smelter
- Creating New Companies
- sweat equity
Where Do You Fit Here?
Our JOB CLUB

Our Technology Systems
-Technology
- Accountability
- Knowledge Base
-Our education systems
- People Profiles
- Our Discussion Forums

Our Outreach Systems
 Our Blogs
Our Social Networking
Twitter
FaceBook
LinkedIn
Our webinar systems

Constraints on Collaboration
Our systems of Governance
Our Code of Conduct

Shutting Out the BS
BS Defined
Our Plan for Blocking BS
How Do We Filter the Good?
The Promise of Less BS

Our Rainmaker Reaching Out Systems
Our Blogs
Our Webinar

Evidence
Odds and Ends

We Support Our Community

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You are likely here because you want to build your business, or you want to double your personal productivity. Or maybe you are looking for new opportunity. Some of you are here exploring for job finding resources. You are all in the right place. If you are in a big hurry, check out the list of links in the left column. But it is rather critical that you understand the philosophy of collaboration and the power that can be released when it is done with focus and dedication.

This Wiki intends to explore the amazing business building powers of Collaboration. Now we hear a lot about collaboration and it sounds good and we go to networking events. Let me stop you right there. What we are doing here has nothing to do with exchanging business cards. This is a matter of dealing with collaboration in a strategic and considered role from top to bottom.

Empowering a growth economy requires that people just like you and I, are able to strategically share ideas and brainstorm solutions, where we can put our skills and talents together to create value, and to cooperate to cover for my weaknesses with your strengths. We each have limitations. When we can measure limitations and create solutions to those limitations through collaboration our economy with be growing, each of us will be creating value, many of us will be looking to create new opportunities to leverage the collaboration even more. We will explore all this here. Lets get started.

But first we also need to visualize what all this robust collaboration can do for our community. With a robust economy and with each of us delivering value in a new collaborative paradigm, we will have the reserves and the energy to integrate the lost souls- our neighbors who are overwhelmed by events and circumstance. Our neighbors who have been dispossessed from jobs they enjoyed need help. Our neighbors whose lives have been drastically changed by car accident or illness. When we can find the space for all our neighbors to contribute real value then we will truly be leveraging our collaborative systems and we will be good and faithful stewards of the talent and brains given us.

We are human. We need diversity. We enjoy people. Systems have pulled us apart in the past. Now the technology allows us to pull together like so many puppies in a box, and have fun and cause trouble and create a robust future for all of us. Lets look around.