Personal Branding Pledge for 2012
This year is about discovery, and complete recovery from what kills my drive
I allow impatience to test relationships to learn who’s stealing my time
I accurately judge who’s robbing me of what’s mine
I jettison people who are boring or ignoring me or angry that I am soaring
People who cast doubt, or those …
The 9 Attitudes of Leadership
One of lingering fallacies about business is believing that Jim Collins is right. As the bestselling researcher-author of Good to Great and now, Great by Choice, Collins is pretty good at retrospectively interpreting what worked in the past for some businesses. But he’s not great at forecasting how they’ll do when the research project is …
Free Libyan People
It was a cry. It was a verb.
Now it is simply a statement of fact. It is a noun.
Free Libyan people.
This is what happens when people rise up against the worst odds. It’s people who make nations come together, even the ones that don’t like each other.
Miracles happen.
Cancer will be …
Position Yourself For Success While Working Your Current Job
If you’re like me you can’t get into a conversation without mentioning your brand, or the importance of building and maintaining it. Sadly, these conversations aren’t only with entrepreneurs, so I get plenty of eyes that start to glaze over when I bring up the topic. It’s hard to explain to people that building and …
Shoot To Kill
Jason Padilla had less than one hour of sleep for an entire week. Along with the other harsh conditions and brutal physical training that are routine for hell week after hell week during Navy SEAL training, Padilla earned his trident in a graduating class of 20, a significant cut from the 223 US military candidates …
Making Small Talk
The top three fatal errors you can make as a leader are:
Failing to leverage your market position Negotiating with irrational forces Not articulating your vision with vigorThis “don’t” checklist works for business, consumer and personal brands. The deadly dangerous part is this: you have to be right with all three rules if you …
3 Ways to Make Your Brand More Attractive to Employers
As a job seeker, you’re likely working just as much as a full-time employee to land a new gig. Don’t you deserve a day off from your hunt? By giving yourself a day off from job search activities, you probably feel more energized to get back in the swing of things. Now, it’s time to …
The Unhappy Tax
Are you one of the unhappy employees costing the US economy $300 billion in lost productivity each year?
Workers are producing less quantity and producing less quality since the onset of the new American depression, a mental health epidemic whose onset is now tracked to January 2008 by both Gallop and Harvard researchers.
Employees sit …
The Ugly Tax
If you earn 10-15% less than someone who does the same job, you’re paying the price of being less attractive.
The average cost of being ugly is $230,000 out of your paycheck, over your working lifetime.
Deduct another significant chunk from your salary if you are obese, but only if you are female. Fat women …
Buy Early, Sell Late
No, I’m not talking about how to manage your stock portfolio. I am talking about structuring your day to be successful.
Cutting-edge neuroscience data is about to be revealed in a new book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney. A collection of recent, rather shocking studies prove that …