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There were a lot of jokes at the Oscars last night about the vast sums of money that Hollywood top talent are paid for their work: Chris Rock on spending 5 days recording an animated film, “and then they pay me a million dollars!” Billy Crystal on the Oscars, “Nothing helps the economy like [...]
Posted in Professional Maturity, Salaried Entrepreneur, seeking change, Time Management | Leave a commentReading Branson’s latest, Screw Business As Usual, I learned a fascinating truth – the average 10lb laptop requires a staggering 40,000 lbs of raw material to produce. While the environmental issues here are certainly worth addressing, I’ll leave that discussion to greater minds. What I want to focus on here is the typically-forgotten work of pulling together [...]
Posted in Professional Maturity, sacrifices | Leave a commentWe’ve narrowed down the best books that our community is talking about for our February Readers’ Choice poll to the following titles listed below. Read what they’re all about, and then cast your vote here. Voting concludes on Monday, February 20, 2012 at 11.59PM EST. 1. WorkQuake: Making the Seismic Shift to a “Knowledge Economy” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentI speak very quickly. All my life, I’ve been asked by audiences to “slow down”. I have to repeat myself constantly. An easy solution to this is just to have everyone else just listen faster. That’d be better, wouldn’t it? I could cover the same information in the same time, they’d be able to use [...]
Posted in clarity, Professional Maturity, seeking change | Leave a commentor, rather, like they don’t get a salary. I had the distinct pleasure of learning leadership in the Direct Sales world. For those unfamiliar with the industry, it may surprise you to learn that most, if not all of the estimated 8 million people who work in Direct Sales in North America work as “independent [...]
Posted in Leadership, Motivation | Tagged Compensation, Direct Sales, Motivation | Leave a comment