Don’t forget to have fun in all that you do. Enjoy life, move forward with purpose and intent and introduce some levity for yourself and others along the way. Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment you have.
Coronavirus, sales and business ethics
Be honorable, honest and ethical in all that you do for your reputation will carry and extend well beyond any single sale or transaction. Your integrity, leadership and trust need to be your calling card.
Questionable career choices
Know your pitch and don’t lie to your audience, whether they are prospective or current clients. By the way, this exchange took place in January of 2020 at my previous university in Jersey City, NJ.
Random learning opportunities
Learn from everyone, expand your perspectives and listen to what those you work with have to say about your organizational leadership, culture, performance, product, services, outcomes…your present and your future. Invite folks to be truthful and share what they have observed along the way, both across the industry and your organization.
Share what you know
Share what you know, what you have experienced, what you have done before, what you have studied, share freely with others. As long as you are not sharing confidential, private or proprietary information, share what you know in service of helping other people. While many see hoarding information as a chip they may want to cash in at a later …
Why relationships matter
Whether you are a senior executive with decades of relevant experience in your field or a rookie who started today, you should always proactively invest in building relationships and meeting new people. Go out there, meet others, provide value, speak at events, ask questions and most importantly, listen and learn from those who may be further ahead in business, career …
Fears are acquired
We are born with two innate fears, fear of loud noises and fear of falling (or being dropped), all others have been acquired over the course of our lives. Furthermore, most of them have been “manufactured” by our minds based on the variety of (in)valid inputs from our surroundings. If there’s an idea that seems risky, but you can’t stop …
Focus on what matters
If you look back on things that you were obsessing over a week ago, a month ago or even a year ago, I’m willing to bet that you will find that most of them are somewhat inconsequential today. There are very few things that truly matter in life, business and career and as such those are the ones that truly …
The power of internet
Recently we have witnessed an amazing turn of events for a man who was homeless and now has a job and a house all thanks to his amazing voice, good people and the power of internet. While this is the latest example which left a powerful impression on me, it is not the only one where technology (alongside good people) …
Is your job boring?
Here’s a video sent to me by a friend this morning that made me smile as it does ring true for some folks. By the way, if you are not seeing the embedded .WMV video in Firefox you will need to install the following Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin.
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