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Personal Branding Blog: Lisa Orrell

Today, I spoke to Lisa Orrell, who is The Generation Relations Expert and author of “Millennials Into Leadership.”  In this interview, Lisa explains some Gen-Y stereotypes, what it takes to be a millennial leader, what millennials complain about in the workplace, and how she’s built her own personal brand.

Name at least 3 Millennial stereotypes…
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Personal Branding Interview: James Hamilton

Today, I spoke to James Hamilton, who is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics and Political Science at Duke University.  He is also the coauthor of You Are What You Choose.  In this interview, James talks about what shapes our decisions, explains how decision making impacts marketing campaigns, and …

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Personal Branding Interview: Michael Beer

Today, I spoke to Michael Beer, who is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and author of High Commitment, High Performance. In this interview, Michael discusses how high commitment yields high performance, the six barriers to commitment, how people can succeed in a shifting workplace environment, why leaders need to be transparent and how …

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Personal Branding Interview: Dennis Crowley

Today, I spoke to Dennis Crowley, who is the co-founder of foursquare and previously founded dodgeball.com, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005.  In this interview, we go over his latest and very popular startup called foursquare, as well as talk entrepreneurship, teaching and Family …

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Personal Branding Interview: Alan Collins

Today, I spoke to Alan Collins, who is author of Unwritten HR Rules: 21 Secrets for Attaining Awesome Career Success in Human Resources and a former Vice President of Human Resources at Pepsi.  In this interview, Alan talks about employee referral programs, how HR has changed over the past decade and some trends to watch …

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Personal Branding Interview: Jason Fried

Today, I spoke to Jason Fried, who is the co-founder and President of 37signals.    In this interview, Jason talks about how simplicity is so important when it comes to products, his views on personal branding, web 2.0, the future, and more.

Your brand is based on simplicity and your products represent that. Why is simplicity…
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Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Pink

Today, I spoke to Daniel Pink, who is the New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and the author of the new book called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which arrives in late December.  This is one of his first interviews before his …

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Personal Branding Interview: Josh Mullineaux

Today, I spoke to Josh Mullineaux, who is the Director of Marketing and lead business development manager at Unique Blog Designs.  Josh and his team have helped a lot of big companies and personal brands build their blog platforms, such as Yahoo!, MySpace, ShoeMoney and I.   I’ve been their client for about a year now …

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Personal Branding Interview: Scott McGrew

Today, I spoke to Scott McGrew, who has 20 years experience as a television reporter, 10 of them as a technology reporter. His work has been seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and the BBC. He has been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards and reports on technology on the Bay Area’s NBC.  In this interview, Scott …