20 Seconds of Insane Courage in Business
I Like the Animals – But I Love the Humans (Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo) Can you say that with a straight face and mean it with confidence? How many “good deals” – heck “Stellar Deals” slipped through your fingers because of FEAR? What is your team saying behind your back and sabotage [...]
Nobody Wants to Be a Rocks Star, Ninja, Guru – Up-level Your Game Already
Just like the USS Minnow You are sailing off to a desert island ( and there is no redemption island) When you describe your solution, your program or your service as a Rock Star … NINJA… You just lost a credible audience Just like when folks asked Why Social? and now they are in front [...]
When Asking For an RFP Are You Playing Nice?
Did You Get Asked To Create a Proposal with no data to define what is a success? A couple of years ago Jason Falls of Social Media Examiner and Maggie Fox of Social Media Group discussed what you want to be asking when hiring a Social Media Consultant. Out of that came what was known [...]
Fining You $219.00 for Twitter Litter
Yes this is a rant, if you do not like it change the channel, this is my blog. Are you a Twitter Litterer? What is that? Simple you tweet like this… Why is this not helpful, valuable or beneficial? Great question. In a time when folks have expressed so clearly they do not want to [...]
One Thing Keeping Your Social Media From Paying Off
Caught Myself Making an Excuse Today This past quarter I have been going through the process of authentic leadership development. This is not a few months or weekend and you are magically transformed. This is a life-long commitment to developing myself as an authentic leader. I tell you this… it has given me much blog [...]
All I Want For Christmas is…
Business Gifts During Holidays How do you choose? Deciding how to gift clients, colleagues and referral partners can be a bit of a chore each year. Just last night @Jimmyw8 (Jimmy Walker) asked during conversation in #usguys about ideas for gifts. Jimmy needed ideas for $25.00 gifts, hey brainstorming and crowd-sourcing is a good way [...]
Mirror Mirror on the Wall Who Has Left Klout Once and For All?
Once upon a time there were many people in villages all across the lands who wanted a Prince Charming to come along and make sense of their new online presence. The question that continued to surface was, how do you measure online influence with so many folks making decisions off just viewing how many followers [...]
How the 7 Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty Found Me My Prince Charming To Blogging
Like That Elusive Kiss From Prince Charming Blogging Can Be Hard Work Do You Wish You Had 7 Dwarfs To Do The Heavy Lifting In Your Blog? (this picture was from a an old dutch movie of snow white) How would you like it if you found a way for blogging to be less hard [...]
What I Know About My Purpose and Yours
One of our guests from Breakthrough Business Strategies radio Pauline Serice has given us all a lot to think about as well as take more defined actions on for our businesses. Working with Pauline in her Authentic Leadership Development program, I have made interesting strides by being willing to commit to my purpose while here [...]
What’s Your Gap of Knowing?
The process of creating a “Breakthrough Project” is like giving birth to a new baby It sounds fun and when you start, you envision the exciting part at the beginning…then your fear and ego start showing you the holes in your birth control, chuckle. Going through Authentic Leadership Development with Pauline Serice, has already started [...]
