How Your Personal Brand Can Recover After Switching Careers
Today, I spoke to Sam Greengard, who is a prolific journalist and author. We talk about how people can monetize their passion, evolve their brand over time and switch careers entirely. Don’t ever feel pigeonholed into one career, even if you are 50. There is always time to recover if you have a positive attitude …
Describe Your Personal Brand in a Single Word
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Your mission today is to use a single word to describe a company, product and person. Then take a stab at yourself! The word doesn’t have to be an adjective. It does, however, have to be true to that person, place or thing. Why one word? A single word …
8 out of 10 People DON’T Get to Play to Their Strengths
…just one piece of research uncovered by Marcus Buckingham after decades of research.
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I spoke with Marcus Buckingham last night and it was the greatest half hour I’ve spent in a long time. Marcus is a bestselling author (selling millions of books) and a world famous public speaker (speaks to Toyota, Coca-Cola, etc). He …
A Veteran CEO Gives Practical Advice for Your Personal Brand
Today, I interview Gary Harpst, who has decades of experience as an executive and is now a famous business book author. Today, he shares his practical knowledge on how to achieve business success in this execution revolution.
Gary, we all know that enterprises have tremendous resources for executing on various business/marketing programs. How can individuals …
Social Networking: Number Friends Vs the Quality of Each Friend
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A lot of very influential people are sounding off that it’s not the number of friends you have on social networks that matter, but rather the quality of the relationships. For instance, many people would rather have 100 close knit contacts on LinkedIn than 600 “lose contacts” or people …
Brand Yourself as a Mathematician or Become Obsolete
Today, I spoke with Ian Ayres, who is an author and law professor at Yale. He shares insights as to why you really need to learn about statistics and how companies are using these so-called “Supercrunchers” to conduct business.
Why do we need to understand numbers to succeed and survive in our world? Should every …
Become a Top Brand Using a Single Roll of Toilet Paper
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I asked Mike Michalowicz to give you some personal branding tips. Mike has started companies from scratch, is a frequent guest on The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch and is an author of a new book called The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Some may believe this title to be a bit too “over the top,” …
5 Free Tools for Personal Reputation Management
I guest posted on Keith Ferrazzi’s blog over a week ago. I felt that this post was so important that I had to re-post it here for you to read.
Reputation management consists of tracking your personal brand both online and offline and reacting when necessary.
A lot of people think that personal branding is …
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 …
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 …