How to Bulletproof Your Job in a Poor Economy
Today, I spoke with Stephen Viscusi, who is an author and America’s workplace guru. He talks about why it’s so important to focus on your current job and protect yourself now. I don’t completely agree with his view that your job is more important than your career, even in poor economic situations because you always …
Success Story: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Personal Branding
From time to time, I like to post success stories to show you that personal branding DOES work. If you have your own story, please email me. Today, Paul will be talking about his story on how he transformed his life by establishing his brand and then realizing that he should be constantly meeting new …
Become the Chief Financial Officer for the Brand Called You
Today, I interviewed Garrett B. Gunderson, who is a New York Times bestselling author, millionaire and speaker. Garrett reveals the truth about 401K’s, real estate, Wall Street and other “truisms” about investing. In the world today, everyone needs to be their own CFO (Chief Financial Officer). You are your own business and you have to …
The Fall of 9-5 Work Days and the Rise of ROWE
Today, I spoke with Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, which is long overdue. These two are some of my personal favorites because they believe in a virtual workplace, freedom and logical reasoning. Why work 9-5, when you can achieve the same results working when you want to work. All that really matters in business is …
The Economy is Squeezing Your Personal Brand into Juice
Today, I spoke with Steven Greenhouse, who writes for the New York Times and is the author of The Big Squeeze. I just had to interview him about the economy’s impact on the workplace because of the relevancy to this blog and the timing, with over 600,000 jobs lost so far this year.
A lot …
Personal Branding Success Come From Within
Today, I interview Joe Vitale, who is a top internet marketer, author, actor (The Secret) and most importantly, an altogether good guy. Aside from telling you that you need to discover your brand before you mess around with this “web 2.0 stuff,” Joe will endorse it and show you the way. He believes that success …
Success Story: One Brand One Tweet One Job
I love following Jeremiah Owyang’s blog. He is very creative for starting a “People on the move in the social media industry” series of posts. In Jeremiah’s last post, I saw a really good note about someone getting a job by using Twitter and jumped on it. I haven’t heard too many stories of people …
A Sense of Humor is Worth Big Money in the Workplace
Today, I spoke to Adrian Gostick, a bestselling author, who gives us a lesson in the importance of humor in the workplace. He has some excellent and eye opening research for you that proves people need to loosen up in the workplace in order to establish trust.
What is a personal/corporate/product brand without a personality? …
The Fall of Privacy and the Rise of the Numerati
I typically don’t blog on Sunday’s but this is an exception. Privacy is an important subject, especially when information is created about us everyday, sometimes without our consent. What happens when company’s learn so much about us that they call our every move? What happens when everything in the world is so public that there …
Is Your Personal Brand Delivering An Encore Performance?
Yesterday, I had a very long conversation with Robert S. Kaplan about business strategy and today I spoke with Mark Sanborn about how to deliver an encore performance at work, to keep them coming back for more. Mark was more brief, relative to Robert, but both share extremely good quality information for all of you.…