Is ‘networking’ just social climbing by another name? Is social climbing always a bad thing?
Networking as social climbing, discuss-
BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.
Networking as social climbing, discuss-
BBC News – A Point of View: Is social climbing always a bad thing?.
Seven part personal branding series: The Importance of Branding Personal Brand Building: Niche Personal Brand Building: Differentiation Personal Brand Building: Branding Personal Brand Building: Affiliation Personal Branding Case Study: Garr Reynolds Personal Branding Litmus Test You’re asking your audience to believe in you, your team, your company or your product every time you stand up…
I’ve talked a few times about ‘elevator pitches’ before, and as so often happens, we like the idea of having an interesting, short, enticing pitch for all seasons but we don’t ever get round to creating one. Do we? It’s useful for that moment when someone asks us what we do for a living, and…
We’ve talked for a few times about elevator pitches, and as so often happens, we like the idea of having an interesting, short, enticing pitch for all seasons but we don’t ever get round to creating one. So give it 10 minutes and lets’s see what we can come up with. Take a pen and…
I was asked to do a short input to a group of potential investment bankers at UBS, London, a few weeks ago. I think it went rather well and I enjoyed it immensely. The event was organised by my friends at ‘Greenlight‘ the specialist arm of Stafford Long and Partners the fabulously creative London agency…
I got it for Christmas. From my wife. She loves me. I was indifferent, to him. For an Englishman, Lord Sugar of Clapton, as he is now, is unmissable, ubiquitous and often unintelligible. He’s the ‘Donald Trump’ of our little island and he’s become the (grumpy and sometimes curmudgeonly) face of the ‘self-made-man’ in the…
Further to my previous posts on the irrelevance of passion for most corporate speakers, here’s a man who is on the very edge of insanity (Where passion without empathy, balance and distance, leads). The speaker seems so full of emotion- anger and indignation mostly- that it’s affecting his ability to think, speak and connect with the unseen…