Are There Gaps On Your Resume?
Short answer: DON'T HAVE ANY!I was filling out a job application recently (yes, I still look at them from time to time), and one of them asked me if there were any blank spots on my resume to explain them.Like most American's, I've known people who were fired, laid...
What Are the Benefits of Free?
This is one of the biggest questions entrepreneurs ask when starting out, "Should they do their work for free?"After all, you went into business to make money, right? How does free factor into the equation?Free is part of your marketing plan.When I needed to change...
What Are the Benefits of Free?
This is one of the biggest questions entrepreneurs ask when starting out, "Should they do their work for free?"After all, you went into business to make money, right? How does free factor into the equation? Free is part of your marketing plan. When I needed to change...
What Are You Reading This Year?
Leaders are readers and readers are leaders.What are you reading RIGHT NOW? What are you reading this year? Do you have your list together?The revolution will not be televised! If you want a change to yourself and your company, READ FIRST! Then take action! Read...
Scientifically Speaking 2012 Objectives
SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S POSTING!As a business owner, you don't have resolutions. You have goals.You do have goals, don't you?Your goals are the over arching, high level objectives for the year: write a book, make $1 MM revenue, open an office, hire a staff, etc. Your goals...
What Makes Speeches Powerful?
The Gettysburg Address (President Abraham Lincoln)."I Have a Dream" Speech (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.).President John F. Kennedy Inauguration address.These speeches are recognized as some of the greatest in history. These speeches moved people and nations....
What Are the Walking Points?
Recently I gave a presentation and did not tell my audience what the agenda was.The sacrilege of it all!! No agenda??!! That's the first rule of presentations:"Tell Them What You Are Going to Tell Them."It wasn't that I didn't have an agenda to present, but I gave...
Show What You Mean – Visual Aids
Your presentation enemies are:1) Clip art2) Bullet points (like this one) 3) Your computer (like the laptop you are using)But when you are asked to do a presentation, what do you do?Grab the laptop and dive into PowerPoint.The business community, however, uses...
Are You Excellent?
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” - Shaquille O'NealI am not normallya quoter or Shaquille O'Neal, but in this case he was right on point (plus he got the quote from Aristotle).I frequently ask myself if what I did today...
Are you a King or a King Maker?
Who has the most power: the President or the people who put him / keep him in office? There is power in being the leader of the free world, but he relies on people to give him information that keep him in office. Think tanks, research centers and the cabinet all...
Sometimes I Feel Like NOBODY'S Watching Me!
A preacher, a porn star and a business man were all at a bar talking:Matthew (preacher): "I've got 2123 followers on twitter. That's half of my congregation!"Omigosh (pornstar): "I've got 58,987 followers on twitter. Most of your congregation is following me!"Marcus...
The 3 Realities of Retail
My previous careers have always been in process engineering, research and development and sales (driving around in a car all day). Now I find myself working in retail. I haven't done this since high school. However, I learned a long time ago that you can learn...