Posted on June 21, 2007
Do you remember the days where you had the weekends clear of “work chatter”? If no one had your home phone, you left on Friday and resumed your work life on Monday. Pagers came into our lives and began to erode this. Cell phone became popular in the late 80’s and eroded this sanctity further. …
Posted on June 18, 2007
I have a friend who’s attracted a few ticks into her life, and they are making her unattractive to do business with. In the last year, she’s picked up a manager, a publicist and a marketing consultant. While the marketing consultant and publicist have been a godsend to her business, the personal manager just ticks …
Posted on June 14, 2007
When you first get up, after you rub the sleep out of your eyes and have a cup of coffee, what’s your mental prep routine? Do you start to mutter to yourself about all your problems? All the people that make your crazy? All the stuff you have do today? Or do you psyche yourself …
Posted on June 13, 2007
One of my favorite sayings is an adaptation of a Dale Carnegie quote: “You will accomplish more in the next two months, developing a sincere interest in two people than you will accomplish in the next two months, trying to get two people interested in you.” This has been my experience, not just in my …
Posted on June 1, 2007
For many of you, life is a matter of deal execution. You make a deal and then keep it. A deal’s a deal, right? Wrong. Some deals are great (you are paid a fair or better than fair price for your efforts) and others are funky (highly discounted or underpriced). If you have too many …
Posted on May 24, 2007
How is your tone of email? In other words, do you convey your intentions very well over email? Or do you behave like Larry David’s character on Curb Your Enthusiasm, ignorant of how crazy you make other people feel? Do you melt down sometimes and fire off mad notes and then forget about them? Dr. …
Posted on May 23, 2007
Sometimes you have to look into the mirror and say to yourself, “If I’m being honest, your behavior yesterday was GHASTLY!” It might do you some good. This morning I was on JB and Sandy’s Morning Show in Austin TX. They’ve been my friends for a few years now and big supporters of The Likeability …
Posted on May 22, 2007
I’ll never forget the first time I met Stan Woodward when I was working at Mark Cuban’s broacast.com. Mark brought him in as a seasoned exec (he had worked for Ascend, a major networking equipment company) to run the business services division. There were only about eight of us working in that group at the …
Posted on May 18, 2007
Many of us live on power point to make our points. Frequently, we might use a template that Microsoft or our company provides. Most of the time, the power point templates have a white or bright background with dark letters. All that white light on a screen (usually 30-60& of the screen doesn’t have text) …
Posted on May 17, 2007
I’m a big fan of American Idol. I’m not so hooked on the singers or even the format per se, but I love what the show can teach all of us about likeability. For the last few weeks, I’ve been doing radio interviews, making predictions about who would win this year and more importantly, who …
