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Personal Branding Guru Dan Schawbel Never Ceases to Impress!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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My Gen-Y colleague Dan Schawbel has strategically positioned himself as a personal branding expert over the last few years, and he continues to impress me on nearly a monthly basis. Among his many projects, Dan founded an online magazine called, fittingly, Personal Branding Magazine, and their new quarterly issue is out on November 1st. From the [...]

I’m Mad As Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take It Anymore! This Government Is An Unprecedented Failure. It’s Time For Change!

Monday, October 27, 2008

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The financial sector is failing. The dollar is already a lame duck in currency markets, and the Fed just printed up another trillion dollars (God knows where that will come from!) so Wall Street can pay their C-level executives. The presidential campaign is like a bad joke, and the absence of laughter in the crowd [...]

California 100 Leadership Summit at UC Davis Next Week

Thursday, June 12, 2008

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For any readers in the greater Sacramento area, there is a great business networking opportunity on Tuesday, June 17th at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis: The New California 100. Billed as the Central Valley’s first leadership summit, the event will honor the top 100 companies in Northern California that generate more than $50 billion [...]

Shameless Plug for Tim Walther’s New Book

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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My friend Tim Walther has just released his first book, Seeking True North: The Pathway to Freedom, Beauty and Success with co-writer Erick Erickson! Tim is an accomplished climber and mountaineer, a leadership expert and motivational speaker, and longtime friend of my housemate Paul Dickey. Tim and Paul were my travel buddies in Barcelona and [...]

You Gotta Have Values

Friday, October 12, 2007

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“If you have a really great business that makes money hand over fist, you could probably have lousy values. You know, somebody who just fell into the right place at the right time. But it really helps to have values. Like Google, today’s darlings. They didn’t have a clue how they were gonna make money [...]

Leveraging Diversity in a Global Economy

Monday, August 27, 2007

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You need people that understand the power of different perspectives across cultures and domains. …I often say that the single most important leadership skill for the next couple of decades, at least for those that wish to advance new ideas, will be how to recruit, manage and leverage diversity. —Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect: [...]

Learn To Build A Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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Following up on last week’s interview with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel, I’d like to share a short and sweet review of Tom Peters’ The BrandYou50, a book that changed my life! The value add here is the BrandYou50 cheat sheet that I put together for you, since I know you’re all so very busy [...]

10 Great Ways to Distinguish Yourself from One of Silicon Valley’s Top Entrepreneurs

Thursday, August 2, 2007

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Rajesh Setty is president of Foresight Plus, where he helps give his professional clients the unfair business advantage. He also blogs at Life Beyond Code, where he coaches the rest of us on how to have the unfair life advantage! Rajesh has written numerous books (he had his first one published at age 13!) and [...]