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  • Built for it

    Built for it

    Both are athletic.  But one is built for football, and the other is built for ballet. Just the thought of one doing the other's job is ridiculous: they would either be crushed, or laughed off the stage.  Both know it, and they figured out quite early in their lives where [More]

  • Five Social Media New Year’s Career Resolutions

    Five Social Media New Year’s Career Resolutions

    1) Resolve to become more proactive: Social media is a great resource for connecting with people, but it is the most powerful when it is used to "amplify" real-world relationships proactively.  This year, get in the habit of checking a connection's profile before a meeting.  Get in the habit of [More]

  • Secret Sauce? Improving Social Media ROI

    Secret Sauce? Improving Social Media ROI

    Despite the frenzy everywhere else, many leaders look at their corporate Social Media initiatives, and wonder why there isn't a better return on their investment.  Many marketers, despite implementing clever campaigns, secretly worry about the same thing. Here's the question:  is there some special social secret sauce that can dramatically [More]

  • Personal Blog Branding

    Personal Blog Branding

    "You only have one chance to make a good first impression." This is the siren song of personal branding, and is what causes millions of people to think carefully about what they wear each day. Too bad though, that in today's too-fast social media world, the first impression does not [More]

  • Best of… Networking

    Best of… Networking

    Of the hundreds of tipsheets that I have written over the years, I am often asked which are the "best" ones about a particular subject. Not surprisingly, networking comes up over and over again. Some of the most impactful ideas on networking: Give and You Shall Receive: on the importance [More]

  • Social (Support) Networks

    Social (Support) Networks

    What happens when you are stumped? In the "olden days" of just 3-4 years ago, you would apply time to the problem, researching different alternatives until you had a viable solution. If you were more clever, you'd reach out to your network - working the phone and email until you [More]

  • Career Performance

    Career Performance

    What do Stevie Wonder, Leonard Cohen, and Elton John all have in common? They are all musicians, all internationally famous, and they have all been writing music and performing for decades. But what accounts for their success? They had great teachers and mentors. They practiced their scales and rehearsed their [More]

  • The World Revolves Around Others

    The World Revolves Around Others

    The harder you work, the greater your rewards. These words are pounded into our brains from an early age - but are they true? Unfortunately, our rewards are determined not just by how hard we work, but also by those we work with, and especially those we report to. If [More]

  • Indie Book Award Winner

    Indie Book Award Winner

    Some great news: The Indie Book Awards has named Personal Balance Sheet by Randall Craig a Gold Medal Winner in the Career category. It was also named one of the top Business books of the year. The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is one of the most prestigious American book [More]

  • One Phone Call

    One Phone Call

    If you could make one - and only one - phone call to improve your professional success, who would it be to? And what would you say? If you could arrange one - and only one - meeting, who would you call? And what would you say? Would the call [More]

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