Personal Branding Interview: Marshall Goldsmith
Today, I spoke with Marshall Goldsmith, whose been featured on this blog before and in the current issue of Personal Branding Magazine. Marshall is a huge advocate for personal branding, as he’s spent his career building the brands of Fortune 500 CEO’s. His latest book is called Succession: Are you Ready and in this interview, …
Personal Branding Interview: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Today, I spoke with Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who is an ex-Time journalist and is in the process of establishing a new blog and personal website. Lisa talks about how print is on it’s way out and why it’s not smart to be a journalist in this day in age. This is an interesting take from …
Develop Your Friend’s Personal Brand Because it Will Improve Your Own
Chris: “Cmon man, you have to go snowboarding with us tomorrow!”
Me: “I can’t, I just got too much work to do. Here’s an idea, lets have fun tonight!”
Chris: “What do you have in mind?”
Me: “Come over, bring your laptop, your thinking cap, and lets work the night away!” (keep in mind this …
Personal Branding Interview: Howard Gardner
Today, I spoke with Howard Gardner, who is a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, has authored over twenty books, and is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. In this interview, we discussed Howard’s latest book called Five Minds for the Future. Howard goes over what the five minds are, an example …
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Grinds; It’s Time to Network
I spent twelve years employed by corporate America and the past eight years consulting to them on strategy and business development issues. Since the Dow took a nose dive last fall, many friends and some clients have lost their jobs, and those who haven’t are the working wounded, taking up the slack for their fallen …
7 Ways to Land Great Consulting Work While In Between Jobs
It is no secret that I am currently funding my job search through consulting work. This has many career-management benefits, but today I’m going to write about the only one you probably care about – green stuff to make your rent and buy groceries. Here are 7 ways to get yourself started and turn your …
Will Your Resume Get You the Job You Want?
So you’ve been laid off, or are afraid you will be, or maybe you’re just keeping your options open. You’re scouring the job boards and know you’ve got to get moving on finding another job.
Regardless of the amount of education, experience or creative vision you think you can bring to that new job, none …
Road to Me 2.0: 14 Book Marketing Ideas For Authors
As I get ready to launch my first ever book, which is entitled Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success on April 7th, I would like to keep you in the loop with how things are going, while teaching you from my experiences. So far in this series, I told you how …
Personal Branding Interview: David Meerman Scott
Today, I spoke to David Meerman Scott, who is about to release his latest book, World Wide Rave. I’ve spoken to David before in a previous interview that explains much of his position on social media, PR and marketing. He’s all about publishing information (i.e. blogging, podcasting), instead of paying thousands of dollars to advertise. …
What does your handshake say about you?
There’s a lot that goes into forming how people perceive your personal brand. Google results, blog posts, what kind of photo you use, and even how you tweet. But, I bet there’s one part of your personal branding efforts you haven’t thought much about: how you shake hands.
My senior year of high school, I …