I wrote last month about plans to update my LinkedIn profile.
I just spent a couple of hours doing that - following the guidelines laid down by Krishna De.
In addition to a contact-focussed ’summary’ section, I’ve also added connection request guidelines, my blog’s feed and some Amazon book recommendations - 2 new ‘widget’ apps released by [...]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Richard Bach, author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, once said:
“Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours.”
On one level this clearly makes intuitive sense to me - because I’ve seen many instances as a teacher and coach where people literally did not believe that “We are all better than we know…” (Kurt Hahn’s words, [...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
This is rather embarrassing to relate on a public forum but since there’s a useful lesson for you and I… keep reading and I’ll spill the beans!
For a few weeks now I noticed from my web traffic stats that a certain goal mapping product I sell was not doing so well.
Ho hum, I thought. Plenty [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Well, this blog marked it’s first birthday on 30 November, and here are 5 behind the scenes trivia found in the party crackers:
1) Akismet has eaten over 8000 spam comments, leaving about 87 legitimate still standing.
(That’s a 99% spam rate compared to Akismet’s 85% average shown on their site. Boy have I got work to [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Here’s a Christmas Career Coaching Special for IT Professionals - but you must act quickly…
… because there are just 12 slots and the offer finishes midnight 30 Nov.
Take action today and inside Santa’s stocking you’ll soon find these coaching goodies delivered to your digital in-box and (within a few weeks) to your doorstep:
1 CD copy [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Over the years I recall getting some emails from HR which told the sad news of an employee’s unfortunate early demise.
For a moment I would stop what I was doing, say a silent prayer for the deceased’s family and friends and (if I’m honest), also for my own good fortune in still being of sound [...]
Bit of a leading question in today’s post title, eh?!
But before we go there let me remind you of this post all about Joe Manzini, the fictitious plumber.
Technically excellent but puzzled that his “plumbing proficiency” marketing message was falling on (mostly) deaf customer ears, he got a “lucky” break one evening by fixing a little [...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Some years ago my parents finally gave up trying to understand my rather techie explanations of what I did for a living as a “computer guy in a bank” - it was a challenge to uncouple their belief that I was apparently as much responsible for the ebb and flow of stocks as those harassed [...]
I recently discovered the “management wisdom” work of Nick McCormick and am looking forward to reading his book, “Lead Well and Prosper”.
In the meantime I checked out Nick’s interesting 6 minute management tips podcast with Dan Coughlin, intriguingly titled “The 1-3-6-Exercise“.
And although the focus of Nick’s site is on management, after listening I was struck [...]
