Effective Work Process
Through experience I have learned that in order to accelerate in any environment, you must take follow a common trend: Learn, Build and Execute. You can’t build a highly innovative project, without acquiring skills and knowledge. Saying this, you can’t execute a project into production without first learning about what you are going to build …
Why Connections are Important for Job Opportunities
Connections are the strongest form of induction into a newly opened job opportunity. People are the sole contributors to hiring for new positions and control who is placed where in the company, alongside the hiring manager. In general, there are two factors in deciding if you have a job: The human resource recruiter and the …
How to Land Your First Job
Like you, I once struggled with landing my first job. Luckily, through my broad network, I established a link to a well established entrepreneur that mentored me into what I am today. You might be thinking that I was fortunate in this respect, but if you take a step back and examine your contacts, including …
How to Complete a SWOT Analysis on Yourself
Instead of basing a SWOT analysis around a product or competitor, let’s focus it directly on you as an individual. Focus on maximizing your strengths, reducing your weaknesses, identifying opportunities and stabilizing threats. You may do an exercise, where you brainstorm and write down each of these areas, as they pertain to your current situation. …
40 Personal Branding Quotes
Here is a list of forty personal branding quotes that I’ve come up with over the past three years. Feel free to use them on your website, as long as you link back to this post and cite my name. I hope they inspire you, make you reflect on your own life, or make you …
Personal Branding Tips From the Hidden Vault
Introduction
Lets go into the hidden vault and see what we can find about personal branding. Since 1997 when Tom Peters coined the term “Personal Branding,” few had any idea or consideration of exactly what it called for and how to act on it. Today, personal branding has become the standard for career development …
How To Reinforce Your Personal Brand With a Logo
I’ve always believed in the importance of a logo to reinforce my personal brand and that of my companies. If you go on my personal website, you’ll see my name as a logo, with distinct colors that match the rest of my website. That logo, the font and the colors are used on my website, …
Key Subjects of Study for Entrepreneurs
When you’re building your own business, it’s easy to get caught up in all the day-to-day activities involved in entrepreneurship, from everyday sales and customer service tasks through to product design, admin and more.
However, you shouldn’t forget to keep learning, too. The top business leaders around the world are those with a growth mindset …
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Why Employers Should Care About The Health Of Their Employees
I spoke to Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It, about why he wrote the book, the employee burnout crisis, the importance of corporate wellness programs, what we can learn from other countries about creating a better work environment, …
Jeffrey Pfeffer On His New Book “Dying for a Paycheck”
I spoke to Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of the new book, Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It. Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has authored or coauthored fourteen books and …