Personal Brands: Take Your Time
The longest emails I write take the least time. The shorter and thus, more powerful my note, the more I weed whack out unnecessary words. The more time I have to prepare, the better and shorter my presentations. I’ve had a year to plan my Personal Branding Bootcamp at UCLA coming April 17-18. Are you …
Personal Brands: Sweat It Out
What’s the best job you could land as your first foray into the working world once you’re out of college? The answer isn’t the coveted paid internship at Google. It isn’t investment banking on Wall Street, although you may be tempted when the sequel returns Gordon Gecko to the big screen. And, avoid “consulting” since …
Personal Brands: You Deserve a Fresh Start
It’s coming on the end of Q1 2010. Have you made the most of the first quarter of the year? What was your intention? Need to be reminded of starting with your end in mind?
Your intentionsLance Armstrong plans his race strategy before he puts his feet on the pedals. Michael Phelps knows how …
Personal Brands: Have Unrealistic Expectations
I just plunked down a sizeable portion of my total net worth, investing it with someone I believe in. He’s a first time entrepreneur, except for being the helpful, handy neighbor boy while he was growing up.
Among his credentials is this: no one has ever handed him anything – he’s always earned his way. …
Personal Brands: How to Think Your Way to Fortune and Fame
Would you drop out (or drop in) to think for a living? How about for $90,000 over 6 months? That would cover your stint as an “entrepreneur in residence” aka EIR. This job does exist. In fact a legion of companies with EIR positions compete for people who think of great ideas. Silicon Valley’s most …
Personal Brands: Don’t Pack More Than You Can Carry
According to Sunday’s New York Times, the new CEO at Xerox does her own grocery shopping and most of her own household chores. Ursula Burns flies on the corporate jet, but she parks her car in the parking lot and carries her own bags.
This is an extraordinary person. Reared by a single mother, along …
Personal Brands: I Heart You
In case no one else had time to tell you on Sunday, I love you. That’s it. That’s the whole message. Can you imagine if you felt loved everyday when you go to work? Think of what it would be like to know that pretty much EVERYONE loved you? That your clients loved you? That …
Personal Brands: Be Ready to Answer This
In Sunday’s New York Times, the least likely person in American business is interviewed in the Corner Office column.
She’s Susan Docherty, who “leads” General Motor’s US sales, service and marketing team. In case you don’t get the joke, GM is one of the more famous bankrupt companies in the US, based on its resistance …
Personal Brands: Be CEO of Something, Anything
In Sunday’s New York Times, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus describes his method for swelling up his company with CEOs. Yes, he wants a company brimming with CEOs – people who are CEO of a plan, project, or program. On a wall, he tacks up a poster-sized white sheet for each employee – and puts the …
Personal Brands: Watch Your Step
I’m laying here injured. The worst of it isn’t the aches and pains. The real crime is that I did it myself.
Zach, a friend of mine, did it times three. After a late night drink with the guys, he did the right thing: he got his friend, who was sober, to drive him home. …