Don’t be an idiot.
And while we’re at it, a personal brand is hugely overrated. It suggests that you can advance your career by creating a reputation.
But don’t fool yourself. A reputation, or personal brand, is something you don’t fully control.
A lot of people try to tell you that you have to “enhance” your brand. I’ve heard it since 2004 when I got my first sales job while I was in college. The advice was, “work on your personal brand, and you can make a promotion very quickly.”
I often talk about how I like to learn from other people. The primary way I do that is by just studying them. In most cases, you don’t even need to contact people to learn from them. That’s why people write books and blog posts. […]
Do you get drained trying to find work-life balance? It’s hard. There’s work, promotions, goals, making money on one side of the equation. And on the other side, there’s health, family, friends, holidays, you name it. Here comes the main challenge: How do you balance everything?When we […]
Every year around this time I stop almost everything I do and focus on one thing, and one thing only: Strategy. I’ve been doing that for the past 5 years in October. It’s the perfect time I’ve found. Because it’s not too late to […]