How to Destroy Your Career
Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?
The seven deadly sins of career building:
Laziness
Carelessness
Lying
Stealing
Arrogance
Cynicism
Self-pity
There’s more of course, but that list is a really good start.
Here’s the thing. You never intended for those sins to show up in …
Why Patience Kills
If Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, than emotion must be an integral factor in successful branding. Coke would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, so the warm fuzzy feeling of connection – not fizzy water and syrup must be the bigger attraction there. Nike with its whoosh of freedom …
5 Tips On Your Brand’s Emotional Footprint
Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?
If Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, than emotion must be an integral factor in successful branding. Coke would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, so the warm fuzzy feeling of connection – not …
Two Key People For Success
To be re-routed to the wrong department, press 2.
To reach a department that is closed and doesn’t take voicemail, press 1.To be re-routed to the wrong department, press 2.
Only two types of people matter when it comes to connecting …
Want More Business? Answer Your Phone.
To be re-routed to the wrong department, press 2.
For static over bad music while Google Voice screens your call and then drops it, just wait 10 seconds.
To get the message that you and your call don’t mean much, just leave …
The 9 Attitudes of Leadership
One of lingering fallacies about business is believing that Jim Collins is right. As the bestselling researcher-author of Good to Great and now, Great by Choice, Collins is pretty good at retrospectively interpreting what worked in the past for some businesses. But he’s not great at forecasting how they’ll do when the research project is …
Did You Trick Anyone?
As if you ordinarily invite us to see the real you, Halloween gave you the proper opportunity to pretend. That is pretend to try and fool us with your mask or costume.
At work I saw witches who believe they were wearing clothes becoming someone with a worse attitude. Ghosts who believe we don’t know …
Free Libyan People
It was a cry. It was a verb.
Now it is simply a statement of fact. It is a noun.
Free Libyan people.
This is what happens when people rise up against the worst odds. It’s people who make nations come together, even the ones that don’t like each other.
Miracles happen.
Cancer will be …
Why High Praise Stinks
“Perfect for Wedding Photographers” is the quote that killed my interest in Animoto Pro. My creative director had sent me a note about Animoto a couple of weeks back. I next saw it advertised on the Mashable Tech site last Sunday night, because I was trying to figure out how to teach Siri to tweet …
It’s Easy To Hate Small Business Owners
The same way it’s easy to hate the homecoming queen or class president in high school, it’s easy to resent the business owner who succeeds at what other people see as a Sisyphus-like task. Taking in the reasons why someone else succeeds is like trying to swallow a bitter pill. Are some people just born …