Career Coach. Management Consultant. Writer. Marketer. Accountant.
You ever heard of Flavor Flav?
If so, I’d bet you probably know him from a painfully bad reality show — Flavor of Love (so painful I watched every season).
But what you might not know is that Mr. Flav is also an inductee into the Rock N Roll hall of fame as part of the iconic group Public Enemy.
I’ll get to why you should care about this in a minute but first I want to share a story about a phone call I had today.
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I want to let you in on a secret…
That thing you’re doing on Linkedin probably isn’t going to get the result you think it is.
Here’s what I mean. [Read more…]
When it comes to baseball, my kids are San Francisco Giants fans first.
It hurts my heart a little bit because I represent Chicago in all things sports (and pizza!), but there’s a good explanation.
When we moved to the bay area in 2010, the Giants were really good — like, so good it was a decent bet they were going to win the World Series if it was an even year.
Then there was the fact that my Chicago Cubs were underperforming…
… again…
There was so much disappointment growing up a Cubs fan, where this infamous moment was probably the lowest point:
So the reason I somewhat begrudgingly stood by and allowed such a thing to happen is this…
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I recently took a training on advanced networking and one of the things I talked about as my desired outcome was more techniques on forming stronger relationships faster. The training was with Performance of a Lifetime, a program which involved a lot of improvisational work as the primary method to work on those networking techniques. [Read more…]
After reading the post about the 12 reasons you NEED to have a mentor, a reader asked a great question in the comments about how to find the right mentor.
Now that we know we need a mentor. How do we go about getting one and choosing the right one?
As you can probably guess, it’s all about the relationships. But I’m also going to tell you how to target the relationships you want to cultivate. [Read more…]
