Shawn Achor: Whey We Should Take Others On Our Journey To Success
I spoke to Shawn Achor, author of Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being, about why he wrote the book, the connection between his last book and this one, how our potential is influenced by who we surround ourselves with, how to unlock your true potential, how different …
Todd Henry: How To Be The Leader That Creates Need
I spoke to Todd Henry, author of Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need, about why creatives need a different kind of leader, how creatives can take on leadership roles, ways to manage creative differences, some of the interviews he did for the book and his best career advice.
Henry teaches leaders and …
Lou Adler: What Prevents Companies From Hiring The Best Talent
I spoke to Lou Adler, the CEO and founder of Performance-based Hiring Learning Systems – a consulting and training firm helping companies around the world improve quality of hire. In our conversation, Lou talks about what prevents companies from hiring the best talent, the factors that predict a quality hire, why you should never apply …
George Anders: The Value In Hiring Liberal Arts Majors
I spoke to George Anders, who is the author of You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education, about why companies haven’t been hiring liberal arts majors, what the future holds for these majors, how they can compete with other majors, the qualities that they have that make them valuable …
How Small Businesses Can Get Savvy With Their Finances
In Capital One’s latest Spark Business Barometer, it was found that only 57 percent of small business has a checking or saving account as their primary business spending method. During “Seize the May” this month, Capital One will provide small business owners with a wide variety of offerings across banking, lending, merchant services and retirement …
How Small Business Owners Can Be More Optimistic
The new Capital One Spark Business Barometer reveals that small business optimism has dropped in the first quarter of this year by 9 percent compared to the same time in 2015. Additionally 57 percent of small business owners feel that business conditions in their area are fair or poor. Business owners in the study are …
3 Steps to Build Your Personal Brand With Online Job Boards
What do people see when they type your name into Google?
We are living in times where countless people have lost their jobs over some careless comment they made on the internet. Now more than ever, success in the job market is determined not only by your specific skill set but also how you present …
How to Develop Your Personal Brand Through Logistics
You’re going to need perspective to be successful in business. Not just your own perspective on how business operates, but for others to have a dialed in view of your capacity within that industry.
Whether you’re developing a shipping company, construction firm, or other type of blue-collar establishment, you’ll need to learn the numbers — …
4 Content Marketing Tips to Help Your Personal Brand
Content marketing—in the form of sharing useful content such as blogs or videos with web viewers who relate to your brand—can be one of the most successful digital marketing methods for your personal brand, but only with a solid strategy in place. According to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2015 B2C Content Marketing Report, 47 percent …
How Your Company Can Win the 2016 Election Season
As fundamental as elections are to the unity and strength of our nation, the democratic process has a tendency to wreak havoc on the economy. For the most part, the media reports just the opposite: Most citizens recognize that presidential candidates and other elected officials tailor their views to correspond with the current tides of …