Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Seth Godin posted these five steps on his blog today. As always with Seth, you can’t get any cleaner or to the point than the way he puts it. Go, make something happen. Do work you’re proud of. Treat people with respect. Make big promises and keep them. Ship it out the door. When in [...]
Monday, Apr 5, 2010
The latest and best-selling book by Chip and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard offers advice on how to champion change and ‘switch’ behaviors. Dan Heath provided interviews to bloggers last week as part of the Post2Post Virtual Book Tour. Check out these posts to get direct-from-the-author, behind-the-scenes information about [...]
Friday, Feb 12, 2010
Be sure to stop by the MarketingProf’s Daily Fix blog today (Friday) to read my post offering “better” ideas to remember short lists… That is, better than writing them on your hand. (It should post by 10 am EST). MarketingProf’s Daily Fix “Five Better Ways To Remember Lists” As marketers and business people we are [...]
Thursday, Jul 2, 2009
The book What A Great Idea! 2.0 by Chic Thompson is chock full o’ bits of wisdom that help with creativity and creating new ideas. One bit Chic writes about, is how new ideas are often struck down with “killer phrases.” These phrases reflect the lack of acceptance of something new or different. We’re all [...]
Thursday, Aug 30, 2007
Monday, Jul 16, 2007
Sitting in a meeting wishing it didn’t “have to be this way” here? While it takes strength to manage through it, being a champion will help you change it. Rolf Smith in his book, The 7 Levels of Change: Different Thinking for Different Results” offers seven levels of change… from basic to challenging. While many [...]
Monday, May 14, 2007
New ideas often make people uncomfortable. Many new projects and ideas need a champion to gain acceptance from others. Being able to pitch ideas is an invaluable business (and life) tool. A terrific guide to effective building and successful pitching of ideas is the book “Life’s a Pitch: How to be Businesslike with Your Emotional [...]
