One Perfect Way To Open A Meeting
What’s the one thing you can say to immediately get everyone’s attention, and focus them on working together to get results in a meeting? Well, it’s not one thing actually. You’ve got three ways to get any meeting started on the right track.
A Startling Statistic A Dramatic Quote A Success StoryYou might have …
Outrageous Things People Do For Work
Last Saturday I spoke to the most intelligent audience I’ve ever had: Harvardwood screenwriters. The group’s members are a Harvard meets Hollywood mash-up. You know, Conan O’Brien, Natalie Portman and 80% of the people who write Thursday night sitcoms on NBC. At least, those are the icons of achievement for this audience.
Smaller odds?You’d …
Something Is Missing
Checked my email on Sunday night. Which of these email messages mean anything to me?
Tires for Sale VA Loan Review Fly a Private Jet Enlargement Salma Hayek Weight Loss Yoshiblade Walk-in Tub Prince Ahmed Karim CBAtabanswernetworkThe last one. The others are spam. The last one is from my answering bureau, the one that …
One Idea Will Make You Rich
Fact: You have one idea that will make you rich !
If you read and follow the simple advice below, you will identify that one idea that will catapult your brand (and you) over the top; and I mean over the top financially.
1) Fact: Idea generation is easy. You don’t need to have an …
Character Donations: The Anonymous Brand
A check was received anonymously for $300 by the American Red Cross. A $20 donation was made anonymously to help the suffering people in Japan. A $50,000 check was anonymously sent to the American Cancer Society to help find the cure.
We’ve all heard the expressions “what goes around comes around” and “givers gain.” If …
Are You a Victim of Yourself
Are you getting in your own way? Are you sabotaging your own success? Are you knocking on your own door of achievement but refusing to open the door to let yourself in?
Meet Eric, Karen, Bill, and Deanna“I’m not one of those people.” Eric tells me. “I’m way beyond that. I’ve got my own …
Be Unpopular
On Sunday night, I had dinner at RockSugar in Century City (the Jetson-style skyscraper park in Los Angeles). It’s typically impossible to get into, unless you are willing to wait a few hours. Along with my “I’m hungry now!” family, I waltzed into this one-of-a-kind Pan Asian palace, which is lined with golden statutes of …
You Say You Do But You Don’t
When it comes to hiring you, CMO Laura Ching from TinyPrints.com says it all in Sunday’s New York Times:
“One of the hardest things to screen for is adaptability – just being able to go with the flow…things move so fast. You can come in and this is what the job description says today, but …
Help… I’m in the Dark!
Who was the idiot who coined the expression, “Get it right the first time?” How many of us ever get it right the first time? One of the “laws of achievement” is that we’re not supposed to get it right the first time. When we work hard at something and fail (get the wrong results), …
Successful Brands Take Risks
If you have to know it in order to do it, you’ll only do what you know – and never will you grow.
Today, more than ever, we all need to anticipate the future and take strategic risks to thrive in a world that offers limited jobs, but “unlimited opportunities.” How many streams of income …