Personal Branding Weekly – Do You Know Who to Connect With?
As long as people do business with people and business is built on relationships, networking will be important. Online and offline networks are both important, but it’s online networking that’s powerfully driven the need to know who to connect with. After all, with the world at your virtual fingertips – who do you spend time …
Communication Lessons from the Field
What are you really saying?
New on the job, Alberta was asked to attend corporate sales training by her Manager. Eager to learn more about sales, Alberta anticipated that after class was over, she would witness an immediate improvement in her sales effort.
Alberta conveyed after the fact that she learned many lessons on how …
Control Your Future
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. – Jim Rohn
I love the last line of this quote, we should not leave our future …
Have You Ever Thought About Becoming an Entrepreneur?
If you don’t have the courage and will power to turn your idea into a product, then you always stay as a daydreamer. You need to take action and start executing your idea in order to become a successful entrepreneur.
Recently I met with someone who has a great entrepreneurial idea about a food product. …
7 Ways to Speed Up Your Start Up
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
When you ask entrepreneurs what made them go out on their own, many would tell you that they were driven to do things their own way and were tired of following someone else’s mission. They might also say that they wanted …
9 Startup Leaders With Brands to Emulate
What young startup leader/exec do you believe has created an exceptional brand for themselves?
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, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs …
Don’t Pave the Cow Paths
One of my favorite lines from a book I read many years ago is about cows. Well, not literally about cows, but uses a metaphor about a perception of cows. The perception is that cows will do the same thing over and over again because well … they will. They’ll follow the same trail to …
Ship, Shipmates, Self
I was meeting with a friend the other day and he mentioned these three simple words for setting priorities. He had heard these from an admiral while he was serving the U.S. Navy.
I thought about these three words for a while and can see …
12 Tips for CEOs Making Their First TV Appearance
What’s one tip you have for a startup founder who is making their first TV appearance as an expert?
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, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program …
Are You Pulling Your Weight
Are you ready to deliver $1.4 Million dollars in value to your company?
Beyond being ready … are you able to deliver $1.4 Million?
If you expect to be making $100,000+ dollars a year you should expect your prospective employer to assign some sort of multiple to your salary. A Return on Salary (ROS) if …