The Most Dangerous Person in Business
Do you know this person? He has one idea. It might have been a good idea awhile back. It might be a reasonable place to begin thinking about solving a problem. But, when you boil it down, one idea makes for lousy problem-solving. It makes for a lousy workplace. That one idea person might be …
Home Bound Workers Caught in a Sinkhole?
How dare Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a new mother for goodness sake, force employees to come to work! How dare she want employees to see each other! What could be good about people who work in the same company making eye contact? Shaking hands? Exchanging a fist bump?
Why that would mean getting dressed! Improving …
Personal Brands: What Does Complaining Cost You?
Jack is a contract worker in one of my companies. Not a day has gone by in the last three months where I haven’t heard him complain.
Jack is tall, muscular with a deep voice and almost shocking good looks a la George Clooney. Jack’s a personal trainer. We’re out in sunny Southern California, in …
Shocking New Plague In Business: Mouth Sewage
Americans spend about $1 billion annually to manage bad breath. Dental visits, tooth brushing, tongue scraping, gum, mints and even antacids are part of the arsenal of weapons we use to prevent our breath from offending people around us.
I have a ZERO COST solution to the real sewage coming out of your mouth.
I’m …
10 Killer Strategies for Getting a Job
1. North Dakota
2. Nebraska
3. South Dakota
4. Iowa
5. Wyoming
6. Oklahoma
7 Vermont
8. Hawaii
9. Utah
10. Kansas
You might be thinking, “These aren’t strategies, they’re states. You would be wrong and right. Yes, they are states. But, they are also places that pave the way for a strategic move (literally) …
Personal Brands: 3 Mistakes You Silently Make in Conversations
There’s only one common factor that’s shown up in every single conversation you’ve ever had. You are the variable that shows up over and over. You have been talking for decades by now – and that’s landed you exactly where you are.
You’ve been talking in job interviews. Negotiating in salary discussions. Debating your colleagues …
5 Conversation Habits that Ruin Your Personal Brand
There’s one type of communication you engage in more often than any other. It’s conversation. You are in conversation – online or on-ground – more frequently than you get opportunities to deliver presentations, webinars or otherwise engage with people in a more formal or structured setting.
While there are many presentation skills courses (including the …
Personal Brands: Stop Setting Goals, Set Requirements
You have already taught yourself how to fail. You set goals and you fail to reach them. You may even be a serial goal-setter. Maybe you set goals every January. Maybe even more often. The more times you set them, the more chances to fail.
You might be a goal-mover. You take all the goals …
Personal Brands: Setting Goals Destroys Your Career
A goal is like kissing. If you think too much about it, you’ll freeze when it comes time to make your move. Thinking about it makes you awkward. Unsure. Doubtful you can get it done.
The lonely drive toward long-term goals feels as nerve-wracking as a kicker, when the opponent calls a timeout and the …
Do You Have a Good Side?
Having a career first in modeling and then in business media, I am acutely aware of which side of my face is my “good side.” It’s the one with a small scar under my eye. It’s the side where my hair is inclined to swing in, rather than weirdly swing out, as it does on …