Why Speaking Gigs Matter
Business speaking engagements are valuable for many reasons, including the ability to hone your story, share your experience and learn from others in similar positions. It's important and the benefits...
View ArticleRooting For Failure
Why teams or people root on others to fail is beyond me. It speaks volume about them. ...read more
View ArticleThe One Secret to Career and Business Success
If you want to innovate, contribute to the new economy, and live a more fulfilling life, you have to be a leader. ...read more
View ArticleWhat Elvis Can Teach You About Your Career and Life
What derailed Elvis' career and why does it matter to you? Simple: creative boredom. Creative boredom and the acceptance of the status quo can also derail your career and sink your happiness. ...read more
View ArticleRegret is the Heaviest of Burdens
Our lives are not defined by our failures or the past. They are defined by how we take those regrets and move forward without dwelling on what might have been. ...read more
View ArticleA New Social Approach to Analytics and Data
Better collaboration between analytics teams and others may yield transformative change. ...read more
View ArticleThe Art of Asking
Building great business contacts and relationships is great. But it doesn't matter if you never ask for their business. ...read more
View ArticlePush Through
Sir Winston Churchill said it best: When you're going through hell, keep on going. That applies to life, business and relationships. Are you still going? ...read more
View ArticleFalling Down is Easy, Getting Up is Sometimes Hard
Getting up can be hard. We all know folks who have never been able to get past a challenge in their lives. It seems to eat them alive never letting their destructive grip to failure, disappointment or...
View ArticleLeaving With Class
How you leave a job matters just as much as the work you did when you worked for your former employer. There's nothing wrong with moving on, but leave on a high note - always. ...read more
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to Hard Work?
Is the current economic malaise making us lazy? Do people have a passion for their work anymore? It's really hard to tell sometimes. America needs to return to hard work - not easy work. ...read...
View ArticleWork-Life Balance Breeds True Success
Do you need to work harder than the next guy and work your ass off to succeed? Of course you do. But if you don’t have balance, you can lose your marriage, your family, your health and then you have...
View ArticleTop 3 Leadership Insights from Progressive CEOs
Today's chief executive has taken interesting shift in thinking, particularly around hierarchy and their management style. I asked these three men and one woman CEO to give me their top insights for...
View ArticleComfort Kills Careers
The next level of social business leader is one who understands and can work across online media and communications. They know public relations, they know relationship and influencer development, and...
View ArticleLearning is the Key to a Long Career and Life
The key to keeping your job – now and in 20 years – is to understand you have to grow and learn and change continuously. Once you reach the end of the “prime” of your career, and climbing the ladder...
View ArticleThe Courage to be Disruptive
Many of my fellow marketers and communications colleagues know it is hard to do things differently at times. You often find resistance to change and organizations who think any risk is too much risk....
View ArticleLearning to Crawl a Big Change
Anytime you start a new gig things take time. Patience for me is always a challenge. My motor runs fast all of the time. To sit back, learn, assess the current situation, and then act takes discipline...
View Article3 Business Lessons to Learn from Netflix’s “House of Cards”
While I am not an avid television watcher, “House of Cards” simply had me hooked from episode one of the first season. Not because of its sometimes over-the-top negativity of the politics of...
View ArticleDoing What’s Right
Whenever you make a decision - life, career, family, politics - we tend to worry more about others reactions than whether or not we made the right call. Making tough choices is always fraught with...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to a Mentor of a Different Kind
My mentor was a Hall of Fame baseball player. We never spent time together, outside of a few moments, but his impact on my life - and his recent death - have me remembering why he was so great. The...
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