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John Porcaro directed my attention to a Time magazine posting about the future of work. “The Last Days of Cubicle Life” paints a compelling picture of our work future. Like John, I like this quote: Most of the best jobs will be for people who manage customers, who organize fans, who do digital community management. [...]

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Continuing the review of the July 2007 HBR article: Building A Leadership Brand. In my last post, I listed the  Five Principles that go into a LB. Let’s get into a little more detail. Nail the Prerequisites of Leadership. The authors refer to what they call “The Leadership Code” which consists of four elements: strategy, [...]

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Good article/interview with Peter Capelli and Joyce Bradley over on Knowledge @ Wharton. Capelli has written a new book that talks to applying the principles of supply chain management to talent acquisition and retention. In the olden times your grandfather was hired, put into an apprentice program or developed over the course of 30 years [...]

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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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Yesterday, Lifehacker posted a link to a post from The Art of Manliness, on making a first impression. First impressions are a key element to building your personal brand. AoM recommends you focus on these key areas: Dress to impress. Look fit. Get an impressive handshake. (I am a nut about handshakes). Focus on speaking. [...]

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There is a very interesting article in the February 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Here in an online link to the story. I have posted before that I am a gamer. This article focuses on MMOG’s or massively multi-player online games. I am a paid subscriber to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. [Thorium Brotherhood [...]

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Continuing some thoughts on “The Making of an Expert”, authors Ericsson, Prietula, and Cokely provide a definition of expertise. Real expertise must pass three tests. First, it must lead to performance that is consistently superior to that of the expert’s peers. Second, real expertise produces concrete results. …Finally, true expertise can be replicated and measured [...]

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Just finished an interesting article from the July-August 2007 Harvard Business Review entitled “The Making of an Expert.” It is an interesting piece that bucks the conventional thinking that “there is no correlation between IQ and expert performance.” The authors have studied experts across multiple fields and found they all have the same elements in [...]

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The Week has a blurb from Science regarding new research around a man’s handshake. I realize I may becoming somewhat of a nut about handshakes but this site is about personal branding and I firmly believe your handshake is part of your brand. Meet enough people, interview enough people, be able to assess people quick [...]

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