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How To Get The Career (and life) You Want

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Meet Amber MacArthur (or her blog name Amber Mac), she was the lunchtime keynote at the TECH 2006 conference yesterday. She was a perfect second speaker for the event, young, confident, dynamic and extremely passionate about technology and her career in IT. She is the example of where careers are heading in the 21st century having already had a number of different experiences in a variety of roles – all… Read More »How To Get The Career (and life) You Want

Passionate Earthling

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Today I was priviledged to have had the opportunity to meet Dr Roberta Bondar – Canada's first woman in space, before she gave the opening keynote address to the TECH 2006 conference organised by the Hamilton Training Advisory Board of which I am currently a Director. One of our table asked her what it was like to take off from earth – she described it as what it must be… Read More »Passionate Earthling

Montreal Bound

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Today I am off to Montreal to deliver another personal branding workshop for a corporate client and can't wait to experience the shift that I see when people get it. Also have taken the opportunity to conect with a fellow personal brand strategist based in Montreal as well as connect with a couple of people who I have been meaning to contact and the trip is a great excuse.

Still Flying High

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After running a personal branding workshop for a corporate client yesterday, I am still excitied by the possibilities that we came out of the day with – and I trust the client is too. The feedback from the participants was positive and I will be following up with each of them in a few weeks to see if they have implemented the personal branding actions that they said they would… Read More »Still Flying High

Are You Influential – Have You Lived?

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Quite often we look to certain celebrities, famous people or influential leaders as the source of inspiration or reason that we do things a certain way or support a certain cause. People like Oprah or Richard Branson for example. But now a book just released "The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived" takes a different look at this and has just listed The Marlboro Man, Big Brother (from Orwells… Read More »Are You Influential – Have You Lived?

What’s The Weather Going to be Like Today?

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Before presenting a workshop yesterday morning at the Oakville Chamber of Commerce I had the opportunity to listen to a really interesting keynote from Pierre Morrissette, CEO & President of The Weather Network. Much of what he said related directly to the challenges the small business owner has in building their business. What was really interesting was that he acknowledged: He did not know how to tell the weather –… Read More »What’s The Weather Going to be Like Today?

Do You Know Kevin Bacon?

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Chances are you might well know Kevin Bacon – or at least someone you know, knows someone, who knows someone, who knows someone, who knows someone who knows Kevin Bacon. This is the basis of many of the online social networks such as LinkedIn, its not who is your network that migth help someone but maybe someone they know etc etc. An article on the Electronic Recruitment Exchange this week… Read More »Do You Know Kevin Bacon?

Can I Interest You in a Credit Card?

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In the last 2 weeks I have received at least 3 phone calls from MBNA Canada asking for someone who does not live at my address (and never has). When I inform them that this is the case I am then trated to a quick advertisement for the company's credit card. First time I did not think anything of it. Second time I became highly suspicious. Third time I got… Read More »Can I Interest You in a Credit Card?

The $ Value of a Name

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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

What is worse for a team?

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The two Apprentice programs took an interesting twist this week. Firstly on Martha she asked the ineffective project leader of the losing team to leave and kept the disruptive loud mouth – makes for good TV? It probably did not help that the project manager was a District Attorney – not a group of people that Martha is likely to entertain for dinner any time soon! The next night Donald… Read More »What is worse for a team?