In the last few weeks, I’ve made some pretty massive professional changes. I left my VP of Social Strategy job at Radian6, a successful post I’ve held for the last few years. And over the last week, my business partner, Matt Ridings, and I shared that we’d be launching a Read more »
We’re taught to be modest. Most of us, anyway. Bragging about your accomplishments is frowned upon, typically, as being self-aggrandizing or arrogant. And arrogance is one of those traits that nearly everyone agrees is unattractive and off-putting, either in business or in personal relationships. But there is an incredibly fine Read more »
There’s this saying that’s gained an unfortunate amount of traction: “Fake it ’til you make it.” And while I understand the spirit of the statement, I disagree fundamentally with the premise. See, people who are *truly* successful aren’t faking anything. They aren’t pretending to have knowledge they don’t. They aren’t Read more »
We shoot ourselves in the foot with alarming regularity. There isn’t a day that goes by, especially on the internet, where I don’t hear someone listing out a litany of reasons why they aren’t reaching their potential, or why they haven’t pursued their dream career, or written the book, or Read more »
Critique is a skill. Maybe even an art. Few do it well, your humble author included. When we find something we disagree with, our tendency is often to generalize. We don’t like a particular marketing campaign’s spam-laden execution, so we say that all marketers are clueless. A crappy press release Read more »
When the velocity of things changes, the art of setting goals and benchmarks needs to change with it. There’s no one that would question that the pace has shifted around us, especially in business. We’ve never been moving faster, or in so many directions at once. We can debate the Read more »
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