The Quality of List Determines the Quality of Career
You’ve heard the statement, it’s not who you know or even what you know, it’s not even who knows you – it’s who knows you best.
The connections and the relationships we have with people determine the quality of success in our endeavors. Even with our reach online and across the world, people still do …
Life Isn’t About Finding Yourself
I have several quotations on the wall in my office. One of them is the following:
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
Why did I select this quote to display to my clients? Because I believe, to be most meaningful, their careers must be created and not simply …
New Perspective Brings Improved Days
The sun was streaming through the window to suggest that negotiation and a willingness to consider a new perspective applies to both personal and business life. Your personal life provides insights for how to conduct business better and experience in business provides realization of how to negotiate better on the personal side, too.
For years …
An All Star State Of Mind
I recently had the privilege to sit down with Kosta and Johnny Diamantopoulos to discuss the major success of their extremely popular restaurants in Cambridge, MA–All Star Sandwich Bar and All Star Pizza Bar. The restaurants are located across the street from one another at the intersection of Cambridge and Prospect streets, halfway between the …
Getting Coached Is Catching On
One of the most basic rules in economics deals with supply and demand. Today’s job market certainly has a significant supply: 13.9 million people looking for jobs. But demand has been meager for the past several years; it probably will continue to be for the near future; and—at least at this point—it does not show …
Quickly Manage Your Personal Brand in 5 Minutes Per Day
Let’s be honest, trying to find balance between our careers, friends and family, and personal branding is a lot of work.
However, managing your personal brand doesn’t have to be stressful or time consuming. The trick to managing your personal brand is making priorities for your brand and sticking to them.
If you want to …
Do You Deserve a Better Job?
You will not always do what you are doing now. You will go on to as many as seven distinct careers, ten to fifteen different jobs, perhaps a dip or dive into your own entrepreneurial venture and hopefully, some significant philanthropy.
That’s why the thing that you do, what you actually accomplish at work, may …
8 Brand-Building Conferences We Would Keynote
If you could keynote any business conference, which would you choose and why?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and …
How to Answer Questions Better Than Others
Be as willing to respond to questions as you are willing to ask them. If you hesitate to answer, people think you aren’t cooperative, don’t know the answer, don’t know what you’re doing, or that you lack confidence. You might even be viewed as acting arrogant and superior in your nonresponse.
Choose your words and …
Evaluating the Job Offer – What is Missing?
When you get a job offer what is the first thing you look at?
The Money!
If all you are looking at is the money in the job offer, you may end up very disappointed a few months down the road.
I wrote about determining what you want in non-financial terms in a previous post. …