If you are not a brand, you are a commodity. Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad Author As the marketplace, customers, and companies disrupt, what communicates core values or a sense of who you are? Once you know this, how can you enhance the Brand You and your reputational equity. Let’s look at your personal attributes. A …
Your personal brand is a promise to your clients… a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability. Jason Hartman – Singer & Song Writer Startups are the new vision and mission for VUCANs almost regardless of age. Startups offer the dream of working long hours, creating, being your own boss, making money on your terms, and changing the …
If you want bling or if you want to buy the Jets (football team) – work. That’s how you get it. Gary Vee – Entrepreneur Be Gary Vee. Be Elon Musk. So, do you want to be a founder of a tech startup or an entrepreneur? So, what does it take? The founder narrative is legendary. The …
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. Jeff Bezos – Founder of Amazon “Brand is everything, and everything is brand” according to Advertising for Humanity founder Dan Pallotta, in a 2011 article for Harvard Business Review: The title pretty much says it all. …
It’s important to build a personal brand because it’s the only thing you’re going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you’ve got to be a good person. You can’t hide anything, and more importantly, you’ve got to be out there at some level. Kyle Pearce …
When you look for a job, you are looking for something that is fading from the socioeconomic picture because it is past its evolutionary prime. William Bridges – Change Author A few years ago, Harvard Business Review, said the following about gig-work: “The fundamental unit of such an economy is not the corporation but the individual. …
T.V.’s weird because it’s both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process. Caitlin Fitzgerald – Actress & Filmmaker Work, careers, and jobs shift like quicksand. The destruction of traditional jobs, the emergence …
You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you’re going to work on. Fred L. Turner – McDonald’s CEO Your boss is the #1 factor that will make or break your work. Many of us who’ve been in the workplace understand this only too well. You’ll work for bosses who steal your ideas or take credit …
“Are Robots Coming For Your Job? ‘Eventually, Yes’.’ Headline of N.Y. Times Article – September 21, 2018 So your kid wants to go to Stanford Medical School to be a radiologist or other medical specialist. Your kid spent 16 years excelling in school, then 10 years in med school, residency, specialization, and board certification. Your kid is …
Workers, Your Robot Overlords Have Arrived.’ Wall Street Journal article headline “It’s time to stop worrying that robots will take our jobs – and start worrying that they will decide who gets a job.” [i] This is the lead sentence in the above WSJ article. Fear mongering? Or reality? Or, a little of both … The …