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EVERYTHING Now Goes on Your Permanent Record

February 28th, 2009 · No Comments · career, personal branding, Uncategorized

I know the picture doesn’t match the title of this post but I couldn’t find the movie where someone asks “Will this go on my permanent record?” Seth Godin has a great post about how “google remembers everything”. It is so true. Back when I was a kid, adults would threaten us with infractions and [...]

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Seth Godin on Interviewing

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · career, coaching, interviewing, personal branding

LOVE this post from Seth Godin. It is valuable and relevant coaching on how to interview. Seth advocates putting on a show. Driving. Taking control. Not being passive. If you put on a show and drive the interview process you increase your chances of getting to do stuff that YOU want to do the WAY [...]

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How Are You Building Trust?

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · career, coaching, marketing, personal branding, social networking, tools

Back on April 11th, Seth Godin had a post that caught my eye: “Drip, drip, drip goes the Twit”. He talks about the need to build trust in your BRAND as something that requires constant vigilance. Not when you’ve just been laid off or the sales manager just ganked your quota up another million or [...]

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OK, So Maybe You DO Need a Resume

March 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · career, interviewing, marketing, personal branding, tools

My friend Harry over at MarketingHeadhunter.com posts a great story that runs counter to yesterday’s post. In yesterday’s post, I referenced a thought from Seth Godin that if you are truly the bees knees, you don’t need a resume. If you’re great, great opportunities will find you. Low and behold, Harry writes of a friend [...]

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Reasons to Trash or Rewrite Your Resume

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments · interviewing, marketing, personal branding, tools

Lifehacker beat me to it. Over the last week or so there have been two very interesting posts by Seth Godin and Penelope Trunk around personal branding and resumes. Lifehacker posts an article that ties the two together. Seth, always a practitioner of tough love says that if you are TRULY a rockstar then you [...]

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Welcome to the Machine

August 8th, 2006 · No Comments · career, personal branding

[Originally posted on the old site.] I’ve been crazy-go-nuts with work. I’m sitting in a hotel room in Daytona Beach, FL at the moment. We are bringing up a new center in a nearby community. I am on the Monday through Friday commuting plan. I’m not finding a lot of time to read/research/etc career/management/leadership related [...]

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