We now live in the era of the personal brand. Thanks to the Internet, where everyone has a soapbox, more people are consciously promoting and managing their reputations like sophisticated brand managers. This trend is poised to accelerate amidst a deep recession and rising unemployment.… Read the rest
Tag Archives: Career
Optimize Your Personal Brand (If You Want To Exist)
In a discussion at my office last week, Steve Baker, author of “the Numerati,” described a day when there would be services widely available to help people optimize themselves in the new digital world. He underscored there have long been individual optimization services in the analog world.… Read the rest
What Are Your Best Interview Questions?
One of my startup‘s board members, Albert Wenger, said: “As long as there are one or more major positions or functions in a company that are not filled with or run by great people, it will be a drag on the effectiveness of everybody else.”… Read the rest
Find Your Passion
Good quote (thanks VCMike) on passion from Spencer E. Ante’s BusinessWeek analysis titled Startups in a Downturn:
… Read the restTalk to the entrepreneurs who built great companies during bad times, and they’ll tell you there are a number of lessons that help explain their success.
Being Great Is Torturous
A quote by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in the New York Times Magazine caught my eye today:
… Read the rest“For me, acting is torturous, and it’s torturous because you know it’s a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, That’s beautiful and I want that.