{"id":3175,"date":"2021-02-09T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?post_type=project&#038;p=3175"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:09:05","slug":"book-the-connected-business","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/project\/book-the-connected-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Connected Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Connected Business:&nbsp;<br><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 1.56em;\">Better Teams, Better Careers, And Better Business Through The 11 Stages Of The Human Experience<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">iBooks&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1522596849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/id1522596849<\/a><br><br>Amazon \/ Kindle<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Connected-Business-Careers-Through-Experience-ebook\/dp\/B08CNJ5SM3\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+connected+business+Kathryn+Colleen&amp;qid=1594415583&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Connected-Business-Careers-Through-Experience-ebook\/dp\/B08CNJ5SM3\/<\/a><\/span><br><br>ISBN 978-1-7348534-1-4 (paperback, English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 978-1-7348534-2-1 (ebook, English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 978-1-7348534-3-8 (audiobook, English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DESCRIPTION<\/strong><br><br>Business IS a people-driven engine. You hire people and manage people who you expect to innovate new ideas. You then send out people to market those ideas to other people who will pay for them, so that you can grow and hire more people, and make a board full of other people happy. Until you understand people, you don\u2019t understand your customers, your employees, your bosses, your board, your team dynamics, your shareholders, or in short &#8211; your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your employees, customers and managers&nbsp;in every country, in every moment, are experiencing one of eleven distinct mindsets.&nbsp;Your understanding of these stages is a powerful tool in your business arsenal that lets you better understand your employees, leaders, and customers on a deeper level.&nbsp;In this book, Kathryn Colleen, PhD RMT details each of the eleven stages, the research behind them, and how to use them to optimize your branding, hiring, management, marketing, and sales.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/strong><br><br>The Stages And What They Mean For Business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Everyone, Worldwide, Is On The Same Path&nbsp;<\/li><li>What You Get When You Put It All Together &#8211; The Cycle of Human Development<\/li><li>Recognizing The Stages At Work&nbsp;<\/li><li>Choosing The Right Stages For Your Business &#8211; Your Primary Stage&nbsp;<\/li><li>Choosing The Right Stage For Your Business &#8211; Temporary And Team Specific Stages&nbsp;<\/li><li>Using The Stages Ethically At Work<\/li><li>Moving Yourself And Others To Another Stage At Work<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiring And Firing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hiring The Right Stage&nbsp;<\/li><li>Problem Employees By Stage And How To Handle Them More Effectively<\/li><li>Firings And Layoffs Done Well<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Management and Leadership<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Connecting To Your Team<\/li><li>Connecting To Your Colleagues<\/li><li>Connecting To Your Boss<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marketing, Sales and Businesses Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Connecting To Your Market And Following their Evolution<\/li><li>Connecting To Your Evolving Customer<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negotiation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Personal Negotiations<\/li><li>Corporate And International Negotiations<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Guide To The Stages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stage One: Everything Is Me<\/li><li>Stage Two: I Am Everything Except Experiences And Reflexes<\/li><li>Stage Three: I Am My Needs<\/li><li>Stage Four: Others Have Needs Too<\/li><li>Stage Five: I Am My Value Set \/ Ideology \/ Religion \/ Beliefs<\/li><li>Stage Six: To Each Their Own (I Am My Ideology And Others Are Theirs)<\/li><li>Stage Seven: Questioning Everything<\/li><li>Stage Eight: I Am A Child Of The Universe\/Divine<\/li><li>Stage Nine: I Am A Consciousness Trapped In This Body<\/li><li>Stage Ten: I Am The ONE Consciousness<\/li><li>Stage Eleven: I Am The One Consciousness And The Physical Manifestation Simultaneously And There Is No Difference<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further Resources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Authors And Thought Leaders<\/li><li>Questions, Answers And Additional Resources<\/li><li>About The Author<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br><br>Dr. Amy \u201cKathryn Colleen\u201d Messegee, PhD RMT is an American-born author, composer and artist better known for her foundational work: Purna Asatti, a process and practice that uses connection to self, others and every aspect of your life for managing challenges and accelerating self development.<br>Her summer job at 16 was doing scientific research at NASA. Before her 25th birthday she earned her Ph.D in Mathematics and was speaking to conferences on human reasoning and how to make the infinite finite. A hyper-polymath, her career has enjoyed a ride through\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>academia (as a professor of Mathematics),<\/li><li>defense technology (as a Scientist, CTO, and DARPA Program Manager),<\/li><li>online media (as founder of a business website and video podcast with a reach of 1.3 million),<\/li><li>venture capital (advising VC firms on evaluating technologies and reading the founders for their true intent),<\/li><li>private education (as founder of a local network of elite tutors and private instructors),<\/li><li>and her current passion: global peace, human connection and energy work.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In each of these, the theme is always the same: aggregating seemingly unrelated perspectives to distill a new approach for accelerated results. She has published many books, hundreds of articles and papers, dozens of unique art pieces and released multiple music albums.She is known for taking only four students each year but influences and leads thousands around the world in more than 70 countries through speaking, writing, music, art and podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is a Reiki Master Practitioner\/Teacher and is travel-proficient in nine languages which she is learning simultaneously while living out her dream of traveling the world, speaking at pop up events and aggregating insight on life, the universe and being human.<br><br>See&nbsp;<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/\">KathrynColleen.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>for more information, books, articles, music, podcasts, and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landing page for the book applying the eleven stages of the human experience to business, using an understanding of employees&#8217;, leaders&#8217; and customers&#8217; mindsets to improve hiring, management, marketing, sales and negotiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"project_category":[2050,1882,31],"project_tag":[36,1429,654,180,900,1767,1753,280,649,981,1732,947,37,1452,1857,977,69,1866,1012,655,302,651,979,978,284,980,1361,283,1865,1864],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3175","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-books","project_category-business","project_category-observations","project_tag-art","project_tag-business","project_tag-complete-connection","project_tag-connection","project_tag-consciousness","project_tag-consciousness-mastery","project_tag-couples","project_tag-cycle","project_tag-cycle-of-human-development","project_tag-finding-peace","project_tag-global-peace","project_tag-human-development","project_tag-kathryn-colleen","project_tag-lasting-peace","project_tag-lastingpeace-org","project_tag-life-optimization","project_tag-music","project_tag-personal","project_tag-podcasts","project_tag-purna-asatti","project_tag-religion","project_tag-roadmap","project_tag-seeing-yourself","project_tag-self-mastery","project_tag-self-development","project_tag-self-improvement-2","project_tag-spirituality","project_tag-stages","project_tag-understanding-people","project_tag-writing"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For leaders, managers and founders who want to understand the people behind their business. 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