The sacking of one the the UK's top sports commentators for sexist comments that he thought were off air is a perfect reminder to us all its not the fact that he is a celebrity brand but in such a technology based society, NOTHING is ever off the record for all our personal brand reputations. Check out three reminders from good friend and career coach colleague Sital on his blog… Read More »Be sure not to make those career limiting comments
2011 promises to be a different year from the last two or three in a number of ways. In reading a number of predctions and outlooks it would certainly seem that networks are going to play an even bigger part than ever before. A couple of recent employment and hiring surveys have identified that recruiters and hiring managers are going to be using the main social networks of LinkedIn,… Read More »Are we ‘related’? – Lets connect, friend and follow
If you are gathering around the water cooler (see yesterdays blog post) you might want to keep the noise level down. A recent study found that people are three times more likely to suffer heart problems if they work in a noisy environment for 1-2 years. See article here. Maybe that is the reason screaming bosses turn over staff so often!
A study conduced by the University of Western Ontario has found that water cooler chats amongst employees boots happiness, engagement and productivity. See Globe & Mail piece on this here. See now you have n excuse to discuss the latest hockey game!
A Globe and Mail article this week continues on the theme I blogged about the other day, Steve Jobs recent stepping down from day to day involvement at Apple and the subsequent share price drop http://paulcopcutt.typepad.com/just_my_toonies_worth/2011/01/why-steve-jobs-personal-brand-damages-apple.html about how the personal brand of the head of the company can effect the success of the organization. Read the Globe article by clicking here also some interesting comments about the title that the journalist chose for the article – perhaps… Read More »Celebrity CEO’s and their personal brands – continued……
One of my clients career building ideas was featured in a recent article in Money Magazine and has just gone online at CNN.Money – you can read the full article here How to step up your career this year.
The great thing about Baskin Robbins, as far as my kids think, is that technically they can try all 31 flavours of ice cream before making a purchasing decision. When people are considering you for that next great job, promotion or contract they may not be considering 31 candidates or competitors, but unless you have been giving them a little flavour for your brand on a regular basis, you may… Read More »Have you pink spooned someone today?
The news yesterday that Steve Jobs will taking another forced health leave of absence from Apple again had a negative effect on the company share price. The US stock market was closed for a holiday and the company is announcing latest results today, so you can be sure the timing of this was not coincidence, more a hope that good results news will counter the bad to some extent. That was… Read More »Why Steve Jobs personal brand damages Apple
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Today in the US is a holiday, Martin Luther King day, a great example of a personal brand – he had Vision, Purpose, Values and Passions – 4 key elements to a strong personal brand, what Simon Sinek calls his WHY?. The fact… Read More »“I have a dream…….”
Just before winter started (or at least was meant to start) we ordered some new winter jackets and ski pants for the kids and we ordered then via L.L. Bean. A few weeks earlier we switched our TV to Bell satelite. The L.L. Bean order arrived promptly and one pair of pants was on back order and one jacket was the wrong size. A replacement was sent out the… Read More »Why Bell Canada Will Never Be Successful – and L.L. Bean will continue to be.