Personal Brands: Have Unrealistic Expectations
I just plunked down a sizeable portion of my total net worth, investing it with someone I believe in. He’s a first time entrepreneur, except for being the helpful, handy neighbor boy while he was growing up.
Among his credentials is this: no one has ever handed him anything – he’s always earned his way. …
Personal Brands: How to Think Your Way to Fortune and Fame
Would you drop out (or drop in) to think for a living? How about for $90,000 over 6 months? That would cover your stint as an “entrepreneur in residence” aka EIR. This job does exist. In fact a legion of companies with EIR positions compete for people who think of great ideas. Silicon Valley’s most …
Personal Brands: Don’t Pack More Than You Can Carry
According to Sunday’s New York Times, the new CEO at Xerox does her own grocery shopping and most of her own household chores. Ursula Burns flies on the corporate jet, but she parks her car in the parking lot and carries her own bags.
This is an extraordinary person. Reared by a single mother, along …
Personal Brands: I Heart You
In case no one else had time to tell you on Sunday, I love you. That’s it. That’s the whole message. Can you imagine if you felt loved everyday when you go to work? Think of what it would be like to know that pretty much EVERYONE loved you? That your clients loved you? That …
Personal Brands: Be Ready to Answer This
In Sunday’s New York Times, the least likely person in American business is interviewed in the Corner Office column.
She’s Susan Docherty, who “leads” General Motor’s US sales, service and marketing team. In case you don’t get the joke, GM is one of the more famous bankrupt companies in the US, based on its resistance …
Personal Brands: Be CEO of Something, Anything
In Sunday’s New York Times, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus describes his method for swelling up his company with CEOs. Yes, he wants a company brimming with CEOs – people who are CEO of a plan, project, or program. On a wall, he tacks up a poster-sized white sheet for each employee – and puts the …
Personal Brands: Watch Your Step
I’m laying here injured. The worst of it isn’t the aches and pains. The real crime is that I did it myself.
Zach, a friend of mine, did it times three. After a late night drink with the guys, he did the right thing: he got his friend, who was sober, to drive him home. …
Personal Brands are Today’s Leaders, Not Tomorrow’s
Ouch. I keep reading about personal branding being a tool that sets you up to be tomorrow’s leaders. Why do old people always say this to young people? And, why do young people repeat it?
Does anyone wake up in the morning and say, “I hope I’ll be tomorrow’s leader.” When they wake up the …
Personal Brands Celebrate!
By now you’ve probably amazed yourself with your ability to stick to your resolutions! LOL.
Don’t worry. Now is NOT the right time to assess how 2010 is going – or how you’re doing. The only thing to judge during week two of the year is this:
Do you have a clear, crisp, compelling focus …
Personal Branding Pledge for 2010
Repeat this pledge every day. Post it on your bulletin board. See how you get what you want in 2010:
This is my year.
I’m fighting for it.
Fighting to keep the big, juicy prize in mind so it lands in my hands by the end of this year.
Fighting to see and stay on …