2010 A YEAR OF FEAR? In my business 2010 has for me been a good year, on par with 2009, which was particularly pleasing as 2009 was my best since starting Square Peg over 7 years ago. But what has been even more fantastic this year has been seeing my wife Keri develop in to a very capable and successful business owner and leader. Last week I was so proud… Read More »Is Your Personal Brand Ready for 2011?
According to a recent Princeton study money can buy you happiness – to a point – around $75,000 as an annual household income apparently. More than that has limited or no effect on your emotional well being or how elated, sad or stressed you feel on a day to day basis. Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money—the… Read More »What drives your personal brand?
We all get photographed now and again, often in groups of people – so how do you get your personal brand noticed ahead of the rest? Simple – make sure you stand on the extreme left of the photographer – your right facing them. 99 times out of 100 the caption underneath the photo naming people will run left to right – you get named first! This was just one… Read More »Are you maximising those photo opportunities for your personal brand?
She Inc. – A woman's guide to maximising her career potential. © 2008 Kelly Keehn 282 pages. Paperback. 5R Score: 15/30 Main Focus – Career success for women. Five Key Take Aways Financial stability and success are key. Goals are important part of personal branding Routines and positive thinking are must's Work life balance is possible Women can be equally if not more successful in their careers. On a scale… Read More »She Inc – Personal Brand Book Review
Image from MOLESKINE ® web site www.moleskine.com A key component of the personal brand process is to ensure that your brand is being reflected in the various ways that people see, hear, feel even sometimes smell your brand. You live your personal brand every day and it should be lived in a way that is genuine to you and reinforces your brand with those you come in to contact with.… Read More »Old is sometimes the New
This was the person I most wanted to see at the recent Art of Management event in Toronto – Tom Peters. It was after reading his book Brand You 50 that I started to get interested in personal branding, it's approach, how I had used many similar approaches in my own corporate career, advised others to do the same and how I could see this becoming a much bigger subject. Here… Read More »Tom Peters at The Art of Management
I had just finished reading Mitch Joel's new book before coming to his talk at The Art of Management recently, so was very pumped to see him present. He and I had the opportunity of meeting a few years ago in Montreal and have kept in touch , particularly around the subject of personal branding. Here are some of his thoughts: Compared to 2007, banner ads are being clicked on 50%… Read More »Mitch Joel at The Art of Management
David Allen came up as the next speaker at the recent Art of Management. I am sure that he finds quite often a challenge in that his topic can be viewed as somewhat dry and probably not under the label of inspirational. However he did a very good job of keeping the very complex details of his Getting Things Done system easy to initially grasp. The hard thing I have… Read More »David Allen at The Art of Management
Marcus Buckingham was first up for the day I recently spent at The Art of Management in Toronto and an excellent choice to kick off the event. I have seen him present before and he is a master story teller, using a mix of research, insight and English humour. Here are some main points: Ask yourself – how often do you; do things you really like to do? feel positive… Read More »Marcus Buckingham at The Art of Management
Usually for me, there is one book that I read each year that I would say to anyone "It's a must read" – for 2009 this is THE book. With some books I buy they are hard to pick up again – with Six Pixels of Separation I found it hard to put down – in face I have started to already read it again! This book will go on… Read More »Getting Online is Easy – But What Are You Doing With It?