I get a lot of questions about how to best use various online tools and social media for effective networking and managing your Personal Brand online.
If you find yourself “out there”, looking for a job, developing a partnership, selling a big deal, looking for funding, people will look for you online, and develop impressions and even make decisions based on what they find. Read More
As a leader, it’s your job to deal with high level issues: strategies, abstractions, and financial models. But if you spend all your time at that level, you can lose touch with reality.
You get insulated from what is actually happening where the products and the services meet reality — where they meet the humans who build, sell, service, buy and use them. Read More
I am a student of highly successful people. They have many things in common, but the one I want to talk about today is how successful people always seem to have lots of people working for them — who don’t work for them! Read More
Are you known for being someone who always delivers?
Someone who can always personally take on
more work and get it done?
And because of that, the work just keeps getting
piled on?
You may think you are being highly valued for
the large amount of work that you consistently
deliver – and in most cases you are. Read More
Lately, I keep having conversations with people whose customers are telling them, “sorry,
I have no budget”.
These days, whether or not people have money, they are reluctant to spend it. They feel like they shouldn’t, (becasue no one else is) or they are not in the mood to. Read More
Getting them heard and adopted is a very different thing indeed.
There are many things you need to do put yourself in a position to get your ideas acted upon.
But the entry stakes is to communicate and sell your ideas in clear and compelling way. Read More
An Interview with David Spark
This week I had the opportunity to interview
David Spark of Spark Media Solutions
on the topic of Social Media Realities
for my Azzarello Group monthly member call.
It was a very informative and entertaining
session. Read More
If you had 20 percent more time magically appear in
your work week — a full uncommitted, unscheduled
work day, every week — what would you do with it?
Would you do more email? Would you go to more meetings? Would you do even more of what you are already doing? Read More
I got a lot of feedback on my last
post Oops. The Crap IS the Job”,
including this true story which I
thought was great!
Once, when flying across some vast
expanse watching an especially beautiful
sunset [a business man who owned the
private plane] walked up behind
the pilots…
He said “is this what I pay you for, to sit back and relax in this $50M jet watching the sun set?” Read More
I want to comment on is how HARD
it is to be a leader right now…
…AND the fact that because everything
is crappy (customers aren’t spending,
everyone is struggling, budgets are
shrinking and decisions are frozen) —
Real Leadership, right now, is more
important than ever. Read More
