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Dots: Connected – Thanks Chris
I’ve always felt I’m a good “connect the dots” kind of person, whether those dots are people, concepts, initiatives, strategies, etc. In a sense a big part of my job now is helping entrepreneurs connect dots: their business concept to markets, their markets to market pain, market pain to opportunity and opportunity to investment. I’ve written [...]
“Recession-Proof” your Career
The good folks over at The Personal Branding Blog have been writing a series of tips on recession proofing your career through your personal brand. While they are titled from the point of view of personal branding, I’ve found most of the tips to have broad applicability and just make sense. The tips, currently at 10, [...]
LinkedIn vs. Facebook: initial impressions
I’ve been a user of LinkedIn for quite a few years now, although I only started using it’s advanced features over the last year. I’ve had a Facebook account for coming up on a year, but again, it’s only been over the last month or so that I’ve really started to explore using it with [...]
Leveraging Social Networks
Good news! The entrepreneurial qualities survey has reached one of my milestones. As of late Friday, I have ten responses from entrepreneurs. As you remember, I was going to leave the survey open until I had thirty total responses or ten responses from entrepreneurs. I’ve taken a quick peek at the responses and while I [...]
The Quarter in Review – 2008/Q3
Many of the blogs I read have quarterly, or even monthly recaps. Some of these blogs are personal some are professional, and the information in their recap generally reflects their orientation. Personal blogs tend to focus on their best content, what keywords seem most relevant in their space, comments or discussions of interest, etc. The professional blogs [...]
Coaching question for you
I’ve been seeing a fair amount of material lately on executive and personal coaching. I have never used a coach, although like most of you I imagine, I’ve been one from time to time. I’m curious as to whether this is a topic you are interested in. By leaving a comment, please tell me: Whether [...]
Forgive me…
…but I need to get a small rant off my chest. I was watching television a bit last night when a Cadillac ad came on. You know the ones, it’s dark, lights are flashing by, a powerful looking business man/woman is driving a Cadillac and you’re just waiting for them to put the hammer down [...]
Has the Age of Mediocrity arrived?
One of my information sources (recommended by reader Lauren) is Harvard Business Publishing’s Management Tip of the Day. (Go here, then look for the Management Tip of the Day in the right “Subscribe Options” area.) A couple days ago the title of the article was Do Something Remarkable for Customers. It’s actually a cool little [...]
THIS is why I love the Internet…
No one raised their hand to educate me on Marshall Goldsmith so I headed over to Google. Typing in “who is Marshall Goldsmith” gave me 356,000 little raised hands. The first few links looked like book links and a link to his blog (which doesn’t have an About page). But there around the 5th or [...]
Please pardon that small interruption…
If you tried to read an article by clicking on it under the “Recent Posts” sidebar, or the “Read more…” link within a post on the home page the last few days, you probably received a page with just the name of the post but with no text. Let’s file this one under IT mistakes. [...]
