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How to Become an A-Player
An A-player is someone ready to lead, who goes at work with gusto and is not afraid to step forward and own accountability. In my book, they are also patient in building their skill and mastering domain expertise. Ben Zander talked about the concept of leading from any chair — he's contagious in his enthusiasm…
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Are You Ready to Succeed?
Perhaps the best way to explain the difference between success through personal mastery and what the current misunderstanding about success tells you is by reading together part of a review of Srikumar S. Rao's course and book Are You Ready to Succeed? (Amazon affiliate link). From Brandon Peele's review, which in my view reflects where…
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Can You Hear me Now?
It's Labor Day and I'm working. It's by choice. They say that if you love what you do, then it doesn't seem like work. That's not entirely accurate. It's still work. It just fills you with a sense of accomplishment that nurtures the spirit, and it can help you with your career, and pay the…
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34 Reasons to Start a Blog
We discussed how social media is like sharecropping — you help build a network with your content and it may decide to delete your account if it changes rules or there is a glitch. Both Flickr and Facebook have given us examples of that action. The effects of those actions have been devastating for the…
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Are You Successful?
Have you ever experienced one of those moments when everything around you seems to go crazy? You worked very hard on a project putting in insane hours, stretching yourself to the limit, getting all your proverbial ducks in a row and cannot wait for that magic moment, the tipping point, when it all comes together.…
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Solving Your Personal PR Crisis
You may not even know that, and it's still happening . You were taught that you needed to play by certain rules to find a job, or move up on the career ladder. And you now find yourself stuck in Middle Earth either in a job that is not getting you where you want to…
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How to Drive Action With Social Media Without Chest Thumping
"Blogs don't make money. Businesses do." [David Ridley] Substitute the word blog with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc. Now that we got that out of the way, what's your business? Some version of this conversation has been in my head for a while. In the last couple of years I've gotten many questions about my participation…
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Starting Today, I am M- Powered
You read that right, Valeria Maltoni joins the team at Powered. After more than 20 years on the company side, where I've helped mature brands grow and start ups reinvent themselves, I chose to write the next chapter as part of the strategy team at Powered. Most recently I was with a Fortune 500 corporation…
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If You Had to do it Over
Today's #kaizenbog chat on Twitter will be about knowing your core competencies to develop a clear business message. Think about core competencies as strengths — what are you really good at? What are you passionate about? What do you find effortless, as if you were born to do it? The third circle is one we…