Vladamir Putin the President of Russia has hired a US PR firm to work on its image while it is the G8 leader this year. The country has more recently been building a perception of being more authoritarian – although Jon Higgins, CEO of the PR firm Ketchum gives it a different spin, blaming competing countries; "Russia is reviving as a very strong and independent state in taking decisions. Its… Read More »Back in the U.S.S.R.
I am typing this in my room in San Francisco for the Career Masters Institute conference and wide awake at 4.30 am ofcourse becuase of the time difference. Great to get e-mail done but not so great probably around 3.00 pm this afternoon! Had the opportunity to meet with a number of great career professionals from across North America and looking forward to their thoughts on some of the presentations… Read More »Are You Going to San Francisco?
I am looking forward to going to the Career Masters Institute conference this week for a number of reasons. First and foremost its a chance to connect again with William Arruda – the personal branding guru who I started working with three years ago and has been instrumental in redesigning the direction of my business. There will also be over a dozen certified personal brand strategists there from his certification… Read More »Career Masters Institute
Last week was crazy busy, compunded even more so by a cracked back molar and stomach flu! But I am not sure if I was 'Screensucking', 'Taildogging' or 'Frazzing' !!!! A new book by psychiatrist Edward M Hallowell entitled "Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap! Strategies for coping in a world gone ADD" shares some of his ideas about monitoring your mood at work – and the fact… Read More »Crazy Busy
Last night I attended the ICF Toronto chapter meeting and was treated to two presenters and a very entertaining and worthwhile evening. The first speaker was David Rock author of 'Quiet Leadership' – Help people think better, Don't tell them what to do! He is starting to do some interesting work around relating neuroscience to coaching – brain based coaching – and how the brain reacts when we try to… Read More »Is Your Brain (and Brand) Engaged?
If you went in to your local grocery store today, how much would you pay for a watermelon? $5…….$10.? How about $60! Now watermelons may not be a staple part of a diet, although they do count as a fruit towards your 5 fruits and vegetables a day recommendation. But would you really pay a 5 or even 10 times premium? At an upmarket grocers in Toronto that's exactly what… Read More »How do you like them melons?
Muhammad Ali has sold an 80% interest in the marketing rights to his name and likeness for $50 million last week. Whilst many current sports celebrities are able to strike similar deals – Tiger Woods being the most successful, this is a little more unusual and has only been accomplished by a few such as Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus. More amazing is the fact that although suffering from Parkinson's… Read More »The $ Value of a Name
I had the good fortune to go and hear Alan Weiss at a local chapter meeting of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers the other night and he had some great words of wisdom about making a full time living from speaking – he has certainly got my mind racing in different directions again – damn him! If you are thinking of starting or growing some income from speaking then… Read More »“The Ultimate Brand is Your Name” – Alan Weiss
So is this a milestone? This is my 100th blog posting, so it means something (apart form the fact that I have not been blogging as much as I want to or maybe even should be doing). I have come across several blogs of people I know recently and they have been prolific in their postings so as I make this transistion more to blogging and providing content, resources and… Read More »100 and counting…….
When I am making presentations on personal branding around the country and in to the US as well, I am constantly going on to audiences about the importance on your on-line ranking – where do you stand in Google? One of my strong recommendations is to have regular contributions either to your own blog or other peoples, each entry becomes a separate web page that are picked up by the… Read More »Taking Some of My Own Advice