HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: Our Iceberg is Melting
Competency: change management
Who benefits: hard to say
Consultant Usage: none
What’s it about? Have you ever noticed how book reviewers typically have three responses to a book? They praise it highly. Or they describe the book neutrally. Or they damn it with faint praise. At least that is the [...]
The other day I read an article in the New York Times with the fascinating title: “Dieting? Put Your Money Where Your Fat Is.” It’s about “diet bets.” A diet bet is an arrangement “in which those seeking to lose pounds give themselves a new incentive: money. If they don’t lose more weight than the [...]
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it..”
Oscar Wilde
I bet you can’t stop reading the rest of this Blog as it contains a hint about becoming more effective at resisting temptation.
Still reading?
THE MARSHMELLOW TEST
We know a lot about delayed gratification from the classic “marshmellow” study by Walter Mischel [...]
Working in human systems is full of landmines and individual triggers. It makes serving in any professional helping role much more than just mastering the technical aspects of “help”. For many years some groups (OD consultants, coaches, therapists and others) have worked with, and tried to include in their development, the concept of “use of [...]
Every week I check dozens of “career” blogs and other online publications, looking for things that will help you find a job, get promoted, develop your skills, and keep everything in perspective and balance. Here’s the pick of the lot for this week. I’m pointing you to items about how to find ways learn more [...]
One night a week I teach video editing at a local community college. Recently a student found out about my day job in the SEO business and the first question they asked was:
What are the magic words I need to put on my website to make it ‘Number One on Google’?
I have been asked [...]
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title: A Trio of Booklets from CCL
Competency: coaching
Who benefits: managers
Consultant Usage: professional coaches
What’s it about? I once took a course in fiction writing. The one lasting piece of advice I took from the instructor/writer was that when writing you don’t have to see the destination, you only need to see as [...]
Pay-Per-Click advertising may well be your best bet for generating leads in this (and any) economy, but you have to be careful. I was reminded of this last week when I read Click Forensics announcement that US click fraud reached 17.1% in the last quarter of 2008. This is the highest it’s been since they [...]
I’m fortunate because as I writer I learn so much from the people I interview. A few weeks back I had the pleasure of speaking with an incredibly down-to-earth CEO for a SoftwareCEO exclusive that’s in the works. Clate Mask runs Infusionsoft, a company that helps small businesses increase sales through automated follow up.
During our [...]
Mark Twain was right: “History does not repeat. But it does rhyme.”
That means this recession will be a lot like past recessions. That means you can learn from history while you adapt to the unique features of this recession.
Expect the environment to become even more competitive than it is right now. There will be more [...]