Author: Katie Konrath

Katie works with Fortune 500 companies to help them generate new ideas based on consumer insights at leading innovation company www.IdeasToGo.com. She’s worked with creativity guru Edward de Bono and uncovered new ideas across North America and Europe. Prior to that, she earned a Masters degree in Creativity and Innovation from the Institute for the Design and Development of Thinking in Malta, was certified as a Lateral Thinking trainer, and studied at the TRIZ Institute in St Petersburg, Russia. She writes the leading innovation blog, GetFreshMinds.com.
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Colleges Need to Teach Personal Branding

This year will be my 5 year reunion for college and while checking the Luther website for Homecoming information, I took a glance at the tuition costs for next year.  And even though I knew college tuitions have been skyrocketing, I was still shocked by the number:  $32,140  That’s over $10,000 more than when I …

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Don’t Put Off Personal Branding to Focus on Keeping Your Job

Believe it or not, there are actually some people who are taking a not-so-secret delight in the economic recession. Who? Employers.

They’re glorying in the fact that there are so few jobs available that they receive hundreds of applications for a single position. They’re thrilled that they can wring salary concessions out of their employees …

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Don’t Be Everything to Everyone

Yesterday, while out with friends, I ended up talking to a young guy who is trying to break into the copywriting field. “What kind of writing do you want to do?” I asked him, trying to get a sense so I could give him useful advice. “What’s your focus?”

“I don’t know,” he told me. …

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It’s Not About You

I hate to tell you this, I really do. The truth is that most people don’t give a hoot about your personal brand. They don’t care how great you are at what you do. They don’t care that you are the perfect solution to their problem.

They don’t care about how many impressive clients you’ve …

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Personal Brands Bring Life to the Sport of Kings

For those of you who like horse racing, May has been a good month. It’s Triple Crown time right now in the US – which is the championship series for top 3 year old horses. Normally this series passes by almost unnoticed by the general public.

Not this year though. First, a 50-1 long-shot named …

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Focus on What’s Next

Last week, at the World Innovation Forum, the words of one speaker really stuck with me.

“I don’t care about best practices,” said CK Pralahad, author of The New Age of Innovation. “I’m much more interested in next practices.”

By ‘best practices”, Pralahad was referring to the management practice of trying to squeeze every little …

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Use Your Blogger Status to Promote Your Brand at Conferences

This week, I’m an official blogger at the World Innovation Forum in New York City. To tell you the truth, I’m really excited–not only because the conference has some pretty awesome speakers and because I’ll get to meet people from a top innovation consultancy–but also because this is a great, great opportunity to promote my …