Posted on June 9, 2008
I just received my copy of Portishead’s newest CD, Third. They are back! If you are a fan of Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation or Zero 7, you must pick this disc up ASAP. The band’s sound, fronted by the torchy singer Beth Gibbons, is chillout meets sci-fi film. Liam, the brainchild of the group, has …
Posted on June 6, 2008
I was on Donny Deutsch’s Big Idea on Tuesday. Check out the archive page for a snippet. The show focused on how to deal with and evaluate risk. After spending an hour talking to Donny as well as guests such as the co-founders of Paul Mitchell systems and Fubu, I took away one key idea …
Posted on June 5, 2008
One of the best experiences you create is through customization. One of the worst ones is created through generalization. When we tailor our information, services and products to someone’s individual situation, we make a real connection. I have learned this recently in both my blogging and speaking life. Often, it is easy to generalize a …
Posted on June 4, 2008
I’m excited to announce that I already have 10 cities locked in for my Fall book tour. You can watch my book tour update announcement via my blog: Selling Saving. In each of these cities, I’m doing a conference, but also interested in picking up other speaking gigs too. Send me a note if you …
Posted on June 3, 2008
As many of you know, I make my living giving keynote speeches at conventions and conferences. Every few years, I produce a new demo reel. I’m very proud of my newest one, in support of my new book (Saving The World At Work, Sept 2008). It’s based on my keynote in Feb 2008 at Meeting …
Posted on June 2, 2008
On Tuesday, June 3, I’ll be a special guest on Donny Deutsch’s show The Big Idea. It airs at 10pm ET (Check your local listings). The subject: Risk versus Reward. I’m thrilled CNBC called me, and now I’m scrambling to catch a red eye to NYC for the show tomorrow. As a former Chief Solutions …
Posted on June 2, 2008
Over and over again, I see marketing announcements by companies that claim that they’ve “gone green!” How did they do it? They’ve made their business “a little less bad.” If they make cars, they increased fuel efficiency by 20%, so now their SUV is green. (At 19 miles per gallon, that is a laugher). They’ve …
Posted on June 2, 2008
Check out this video interview (It’s all about the body language), where a stock market analyst calls out body language as a key indicator of a CEO’s optimism about his or her company. Do you send the right ‘visual’ signals? This jives with my earlier post that talks about how people actually decode you based …
Posted on May 29, 2008
Today I attempted to do everything in uni-task mode (as opposed to multi-task). The secret for me was to turn off all the distractions that make it difficult to concentrate. Let me see…Yahoo Mail alert, my Entourage alert (sound, plus the little envelope icon in the toolbar), Yahoo alerts, my cell phone, instant messenger, etc. …
Posted on May 28, 2008
Do you have a current head shot that shows you off? If not, how can you build a personal brand? Your picture is more memorable than your bio. Maybe that’s what people mean when they say that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” I remember in 1998, while working at broadcast.com, when I got …
