Behind the very successful author teleseminars series is a new friend of mine, Elizabeth Marshall.  Together with the brilliant Michael Port, who wrote Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling, comes a little book with big sales ...

Touche, Scot Herrick.  Over at Cube Rules, Scot suggests that innovation may be overrated, and that innovation means very little without the ability to execute on great ideas.   Innovation is important, says Scot, because we all need to be adapting to the changing business environment.  But too often, we see innovations as meaning ...

In their 2008 Investor’s Guide, Fortune Magazine offered ten tips to help us prevent the heat of the moment from melting our better judgment. The tips form an acronym – Think Twice – and are worth keeping in mind no matter what you’re thinking about or what decision you’re trying to make. Take the Global View. Always keep an eye on where ...

Every year, I get asked by one media outlet or another how to handle the office holiday party.  This year, I decided to share the advice I and others provided to the Wall Street Journal last weekend:   “We spend so much time communicating on Blackberries and e-mail, the office party is a rare opportunity to really meet the people who ...

One of my colleagues at Edelman, Dan Santow, has a great blog of writing tips, and I thought this week’s post on clichés was worth sharing with all of you. Says Dan:  A cliché is a metaphor or phrase characterized by its overuse. For the most part, using clichés is lazy, an easy out, a ready-made excuse not to take the time needed to think ...

Vickie Hann, HR Director at the Hilton Arlington near my old stomping grounds of Washington D.C., contacted me to share the great work her hotel is doing around the Earth Charter, an international people’s treaty for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.   At the Hilton Arlington, an Earth Charter ...

I get a lot of e-mails asking me how people should use LinkedIn for business networking.  And the truth is, I’m not entirely sure myself, which is why I’m looking forward to my friend Jason Alba’s book on the topic.  This week, though, I came across a great post from Chris Brogan at Lifehack with some tips for making it easier ...

Expense reports are a reality of employment in Corporate America that most people tend not to think too much about.  You spend money on behalf of your company and HR pays you back ASAP, right?    However, once you go to actually submit your first expense report for a new job, you may realize that reimbursement is more complicated ...

A few weeks ago, I read a post on how to generate a following for your blog.  I would love to give credit to the author, but I can’t remember where I saw it.  In any case, one of the post’s recommendations was to include the blog’s URL in your e-mail signature.  This may sound like a no-brainer, but I hadn’t thought of it, and so I ...

[ImageAttachment] When employers talk about desirable skills they look for in new hires, they usually mean things like writing, data analysis, interpersonal communication, and project management.  But what about the ability to LEARN?  I’m not kidding.  Let’s say a twenty-something employee, we’ll call her Amy, starts a new job as ...