Crucial Conversations – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. But we are surrounded by crucial conversations every day, so still relevant! What makes Crucial Conversations so, well, crucial? What differentiates it from all of the other books on communication and building rapport that you can find on the bookshelf? Well, it’s exactly that Crucial Conversations deals with the high-stakes conversations that happen infrequently, but that have a huge impact on the the course of our professional and personal lives. Most books deal with how to communicate in your day-to-day life. Crucial Conversations takes a more … [Read more...]
5 Steps to Better LinkedIn Privacy
Updated December 2018 One of the most powerful, and least used, pages on LinkedIn is the Privacy & Setting section. Privacy is a complex topic, and as a concept it's in a lot of flux right now. No matter what your personal approach to the information you share with the world at large, though, the ability to navigate the various privacy settings online is important. On LinkedIn there are a number of ways that you can control how and what you share. Ultimately, what you decide to share and what you decide to keep private is largely dependent on your comfort level and on your goals for using LinkedIn. Take Control of Your … [Read more...]
Monday Morning Mash-Up – Calling an Audible
It might be a little early in the year to use a football metaphor, but I used this phrase a few days ago and I think it's worth sharing. Let me explain. Like most people, I have a number of goals that I'm working towards at any given time, personally and professionally. For example, I'm usually working on making better food choices to improve my health. I will often remove something completely from my diet for a month or two to give myself a definitive line of what I will and won't eat. Having set "rules" makes it easier to make decisions about what I should choose for dinner. These guides help, but I've learned that you can't be … [Read more...]
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. It's ideas were influential as I was writing Networking in the 21st Century. The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea…Ideas and products and messages spread just like viruses do” (pg. 7). That’s the description of the book straight from Malcolm Gladwell’s mouth, er, keyboard. Basically a sociological and psychological study on how cultural ideas spread, The Tipping Point offers an interesting examination and extrapolation of the factors that cause a message to become “viral”. All you have to do is google viral marketing and you’ll see the hold … [Read more...]
How Many Seeds Did You Plant Today?
The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin
This article was originally published on May 2nd 2009. Josh Waitzkin became a world-class champion in two seemingly unrelated fields – chess (they even made a movie about him) and Push Hands Tai Chi. On the outside these may seem like totally different worlds, but both of them are activities that require high levels of internal control to be successful. And Josh became an expert in developing that mental and emotional control. Josh uses The Art of Learning to examine the processes he used to develop mastery in these two fields. He follows a biographical time line to do so, but he’s really more concerned with the lessons he learned … [Read more...]
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