What Is Your Personal Brand? You may not like to think of yourself as a brand, but you are one. Most people think of you as the X Person or the Y Specialist. If they don’t…well, that’s a problem. If people don’t associate you with something distinct and valuable, then they may not hire or [...]
How much Klout do you have? Klout measures your level of influence online. To increase your Klout score, you must drive action online (by getting lots of “likes” and comments on Facebook and LinkedIn, retweets on Twitter and reshares on Google+, for instance). Just generating online content isn’t enough; people have to engage with your [...]
Get the Picture We’re a visual culture. We used to count “readers”; now we count “eyeballs.” Even newspapers–the ones that remain–are printed in color and the ratio of text to images has tilted heavily toward images. People want to read and hear what you have to say, but they also want to know what you [...]
Résumé Recommendations Don’t use the same résumé for every job application. Re-craft your résumé based upon the specific job description as well as your knowledge of the organization and industry. Select a format that highlights your skills and achievements. Build action words into your resume. Be memorable, but not annoying. Don’t shy away from an [...]
Discover Your Strengths If you haven’t tried StrengthsFinder 2.0, now is the time. When you purchase the book you are given a code to access the assessment online. Once that’s completed, you will be given a comprehensive Strengths Discovery and Action Planning Guide that is based on your StrengthsFinder 2.0 results. This guide features an [...]
Most of us enjoy films and believe we know what makes a good or bad film. Do we? Or do we simply know our preference? When academics study an industry they can begin to provide insights that may be missed on the industry’s leaders themselves. In this short film created by Dr. Allegre Hadida at [...]
As a leader, do you read and respond to e-mail as much as you used to? Or are you starting to tune out? Over a year ago, Aditya Kothadiya posited that personal e-mail has become more of a notification medium and less of a communication medium. His argument looks even stronger today. While Twitter and Facebook [...]
When I ask leaders where they are most productive, they often say on the plane. They enjoy being unplugged for several hours, and they get more done. Avoid using wifi on planes if you can. And if you’re not on a plane, imagine you are for the next few hours. What might you be able [...]
Letter from Apple Regarding iPhone 4 Dear iPhone 4 Users, The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports [...]
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For those who are not familiar with Kevin Maney he is an author and journalist who has interviewed many of the biggest names in business in a career spanning 25 years. His most recent book is Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On and Others Don’t, published in the fall of 2009 by Broadway Books. He [...]
Just completed building a Just Ask Leadership App for the iphone. It will be published within the next two weeks. The App will carry content from the Just Ask Leadership Blog, YouTube, Twitter and Eat The Book events in Minneapolis. Please stay tuned – You will find it on itunes under the name “Leadership”!
