I am happy to support my good friend Sophfronia Scott today, in the launch of her book Doing Business by the Book. Sophfronia really helped me to organize my thoughts as I was writing my book. She is an extremely smart (Harvard grad!) down-to-earth person (you can trust her), and has spent a lot of [...]
The few of you who have known me since my early twenties know that I have a bit of a rebel spirit. At nineteen, I had plans to change the world, redistribute wealth and solve poverty. You know, typical youthful enthusiasm. Then, after spending a few years studying and living in South America, I saw [...]
I spent many years speaking to groups across the country, and even teaching presentation skills to hundreds of salespeople and engineers. It was always fascinating to me since it combined so many favorite subjects: motivation, communication, fear, physical movement, design and creativity. In today’s podcast with Nick Morgan, I took my learning to a whole [...]
In today's economic climate, I am not surprised that there is HUGE interest in figuring out how to set up a backup plan or safety net in case your job or business goes away. At the same time, I find that clients, blog readers, and the working population in general is not quite sure how [...]
I am getting excited about the “open source career coaching” possibilities, as my friend John Fritz recently called the “Jon the ballplayer” series. So here is a juicy one for your input. I am withholding my opinion on this first (for you Tom but will share my view once I read yours. Says Gentle Reader [...]
A friend mentioned today that we are in another age of "creative destruction." In other words, everything we got comfortable with is being blown to bits. Consider these statements which may have seemed very reasonable a short while ago: Jobs are stable Big banks don’t fail My retirement accounts are safe My home will maintain [...]
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