Labor day is a weird holiday. Growing up, I thought it was all about mattress sales. It's a holiday that doesn't have the immediacy of Memorial Day or the 4th of July because its origins have become less relevant to us now. It's hard to remember that, when the holiday first began in the mid-1880s, employees were still fighting for the work life that we take for granted today. In fact, I grew up 2 blocks from the site of a strike where people were killed while marching for an 8-hour work day. It kinda puts your boss asking you to come in for a few hours on Saturday in perspective. People are often surprised to find that I didn't get … [Read more...]
How to Combine Grey Hair and Social Savvy to Win on LinkedIn
For better or worse, social media has changed the way business happens. One of its biggest effects has been on how we judge credibility in others. In the past, we would extend provisional trust to new connections. When we met someone, for example through a referral or at a professional event, our starting point would be to trust them. We would then build a relationship and a foundation of credibility underneath it. These days, because information is so easy to access, that process has inverted. It's easy to research someone before we decide to do business with them. We're giving more and more credibility to the information we find … [Read more...]
Speak to Win – Brian Tracy
This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. It's a great foundation from one of the icons in the biz. Big Thought Effectiveness in public speaking is a learned skill; and your ability to speak in front of others is a key ingredient in professional success. Questions, Ideas, Implications “Fully 90 percent of your success as a speaker will be determined by how well you plan your speech.” (pg 18). I couldn’t agree more. When people ask me how to improve their public speaking, they are usually thinking about their deficiencies in delivery. However, most messages falter because of poor planning … [Read more...]
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Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile – Daniel Nettle
This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. And who doesn't want to be happy? It makes sense that if the world’s philosophies and religions have been examining happiness for the past few millennia, it’s fair game for the psychologists and neuroscientists to take a whack at it. It seems a little ironic to take a “scientific” look at happiness, considering how subjective the idea of happiness really is, but Daniel Nettle does a great job looking at the psychology of what happiness is and what causes it. In the end, an examination of happiness is really a way of examining what motivates us as human … [Read more...]
Getting Pumped for a Networking Event
I'm getting ready to go to a networking event, and I'm trying to get excited. Actually, I'm not even getting ready. I'm ready. I'm sitting at a coffeehouse 3 blocks from the event because I got to downtown Chicago early (to beat the traffic) and all I have to do is walk over there. But I'm tired. It's a Thursday. It's been a long week already. I've had a busy day full of ups and downs. Maybe you know the feeling? I don't necessarily want to go meet new people. It would be soooo easy to sit here, grab dinner, and then just go home. My lethargy has nothing to do with the event or the people there. It's going to be great - a … [Read more...]
Feeding the Media Beast – Mark Mathis
This article was originally published on January 28th, 2011. And after doing months of press for Networking in the 21st Century, it has proved invaluable! It seems that Good Press is the holy grail that every company and organization is chasing after these days. From the the biggest multi-national corporation to the newest one-person start-up, everyone is looking for that elusive media fix. Because of that, there is an overabundance of books/articles/websites that all promise to share their “secret” to getting media attention (most of them extolling the virtue of their particular style of press release writing). Mark Mathis’s Feeding … [Read more...]
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