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What’s your Capital-S Story?

Here’s what we know: Storytelling is very important in marketing and branding Although less people realize it, storytelling is also very important in developing leaders About 20 percent of workers globally — give or take — see/find a sense of… Continue Reading

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The No. 1 interview question of the future will be…

Follow the bouncing ball here: Job interviews are mostly a train wreck that accomplish very little and no one has really clear rules about; The new fad in that space was “behavioral interviewing,” which is dumb as all get-out; What… Continue Reading

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Leading business communication with “What’s in it for me”

Check this out from Forrester on the “customer service ecosystem:” People participate in the ecosystem if they get value from it. Each actor in the CX ecosystem is asking, “What’s in it for me?” Employees want things like professional development,… Continue Reading

Heisman Trophy 2015: Leonard Fournette vs. Trevone Boykin, right?

That’s how it would seem, about halfway (six weeks) through the season. Fournette has 119 carries for 1,022 yards and 12 TDs; he’s in a tie with 10 other all-time players for the fastest person to 1,000 yards in a… Continue Reading

Leadership is about building something great together

Let’s say you had the chance to take advice from a guy who had a 12-employee, $95,000 company and grew it into a 6,000-employee, $1.5 billion company? You probably would listen, no? That guy is Mark Leslie, and he recently… Continue Reading

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Here’s why LinkedIn publishing is probably NOT a good strategy

From The New Yorker’s really long, in-depth profile of billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn would also purvey business advice. Three years ago, it assembled a group of eight hundred “influencers”—Hoffman, Bill Gates, Deepak Chopra, Arianna Huffington—who began regularly posting on the… Continue Reading

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On no-ROI deliverables

I’ve been working 13 years. I’m about to turn 35 years old. (Less than one month, yay.) The first two years I was working, I taught inner-city elementary school in Houston as part of Teach for America. Then, I worked for… Continue Reading

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Scientifically, what’s going to determine your earning potential?

One of the three things you can’t really discuss — along with failure and sex — is money/salary. As essentially a direct result of this, no one really understands what their salary represents — and that leads to a lot… Continue Reading