Are You Really Good at Job Interviewing?
Job interviewing is an act. Yes, you are the actor, and both sides know the rules: You, who are one of the candidates for the position, are doing your best to convince the interviewer you are the ideal candidate. The interviewer, who is the audience, has choices, is an independent thinker and often skeptic, and …
What Anger Says About You
You would be surprised if you could ask your anger what it really means.
If anger were sitting next to you when you got cut off on the road, what would it say? If anger were on a conference call with you when you tried to cancel your cable service, what would its message be? …
Balancing High School And Being a Top Hip Hop Publicist with Lloyd Ellis
Earlier today I had the chance to sit down with Lloyd Ellis the teen publicist behind some of hip-hop’s biggest names. Lloyd chats with us about how he got into the music industry at a young age and how he does it all while still being in high school. After having this conversation I am …
How Small Business Leaders Create Consistent Championship Employee Performance
Being a lifelong sports fan and a season ticket holder for the New York Rangers National Hockey League team, has provided me with a lot of opportunities to compare success in sports to success in business.
Recently my focus has been on comparing how sports teams manage the performance of their athletes versus how employee …
When Do You Know that You are Successful?
Is is money, title, power? No. Experience from studying hundreds of successful people in all walks of life shows me you are successful when:
You are working towards, are on the brink, or have met your dream life and career goals while you remain a solid citizen. You are viewed as a “good” person: responsible, …
The Fundamentals of Successful Thinking
The simple truth is that our control over our consciousness determines the quality of our lives as well as our ability to reach our full potential.
People who have developed the right mental disciplines make more money, stretch their abilities more than their peers, enjoy higher positions at work, command more respect and form more …
Graduating from Promoter to Music Executive with Milan Ackerman
This week I got the chance to sit down with Milan Ackerman, VP of 36Brickhouse. Their client roster includes Waka Flocka Flame, Southside, Azizi Gibson, Our Neon Dreams, and Ben G. Milan has been a driving force in expanding his clients music into new verticals outside of entertainment. During the course of the interview we …
Five Things about Business I’ve learned from Mountain Biking
Even if you have never ridden a mountain bike I think these tips might be helpful to you.
Pro Tip: If you have ever ridden a bike you can ride a mountain bike.
Some might say, but it’s too hard or there might be obstacles that I won’t be able to navigate.
Guess what? This …
Small Business Challenge: Finances
The first post in this series regarding small businesses was titled Big Challenges for Small Business Owners and in it we examined the three biggest challenges owners face: people, finances, and time. In the The Small Business People Puzzle: Part 1 and Part 2, we looked deeper into the challenge of finding, selecting, attracting, orienting, …
5 Mistakes That Could Easily Derail Your Career
DURING THE GREAT RECESSION, WHEN HUGE LAYOFFS AND FREQUENT DOWNSIZINGS WERE THE GENERAL ORDER OF THE DAY FOR MANY, MANY EMPLOYERS, literally millions of men and women were in constant, sometimes paralyzing fear that the next “heads” on “the chopping block” could quickly and easily end up being their own.
Thank goodness, now that hiring …