Use the “3 P’s” to Discover Your Career-Life Bull’s-eye

August 25, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

Most People are Deeply Unhappy at Work

According to the Conference Board, job satisfaction is at a record low and one out of three workers are hoping to find a new job in the year ahead.

Many still find it hard to believe but money alone doesn’t lead to happiness. …

Chapter Download

July 27, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

Thanks for reading my blog, joining my newsletter and for your support in general. If you haven’t gotten them already, here are several free resources for you.

  1. Download Free Chapter from, We
  2. Download Copy of My 2011 Keynote Slides

Leading After Layoffs: What Cisco’s Managers Need to Do Next

July 26, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

After months of speculation, it’s official.

Cisco will lay off 6,500 employees—about nine percent of its workforce—and transfer another 5,000 as part of the sale of its set-top box business to a Taiwanese company.

But what about those who don’t get cut? What about the 60,500 Cisco employees who remain in the …

Download Slides from Re:Engage! Keynote

July 14, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

I put a lot of work into the slides I use in my talks and move pretty fast when I present so I get a LOT of requests for copies of the slide deck.

Below is the link for a PDF of my core slides, but before you go clicking away …

Google Defines Your Personal Brand

July 12, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

Go Google Yourself

Go Google yourself. You know, go type your name in between quotes into Google or Bing or one of the other major internet search engines and see what comes up. I’ll wait…

Did you really do it? What came back on you is basically what your brand …

Recommended Books to Transform Your Business & Life

July 10, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

I received an email from James last week who shared how much he got from reading my book We, and he asked what other books I’d recommend. I’ve never really done a book list before partly, because it’s so hard to narrow them down (I read 50-100 books every …

New Survey: Front-line Managers Don’t Practice Recognition for Employee Engagement

June 24, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

In our book We, Rudy Karsan and I suggest that Recognition is one of the three major drivers of employee engagement (Growth and Trust being the other two). Now, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has released a new survey on employee engagement and recognition, based on …

No More Fixed Salaries! How Variable Pay Programs Will Save Our Companies and Our Jobs

June 9, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

For most of human existence, pay has been tied directly to output. We consumed what we hunted, later we bartered our crops and livestock, and still later we would swap services we performed for lodging or meals. Even after the invention of money we received it for the goods we …

Grassroots Book Marketing: Lessons from Thriller Author Joseph Finder

April 29, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

Every business today is desperately trying to figure out marketing 2.0, in other words grassroots marketing, buzz marketing, viral marketing, etc. Too often I see spray and pray campaigns that encourage you to “Like” a facebook page or sign-up for a newsletter or to enter a contest with the remote …

Book Review: 10 Steps to Successful Virtual Presentations by Wayne Turmel

April 27, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

I’ve been doing a lot of webinars to promote my book, We, and I’ve learned that doing them successfully isn’t as easy it looks. Fortunately, I’m a quick learner and recently some real pro’s have shared tips including:

  • Add a Twitter hashtag and a “Tweet this” message right on the …

B-to-I? Redefining Your Client’s Buying Criteria

April 8, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

This week’s edition of Bloomberg Businessweek has an article about magazine publisher, Richard Beckman, and his efforts to revitalize The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and other media properties. I read with interest and some amusement how Beckman says he invented the term “B-to-I”. Most are familiar with the term B-to-B …

Google’s 8 Habits of Highly Effective Managers

March 22, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

In a special initiative called Project Oxygen, Google unleashed its famed statisticians to analyze 10,000 observations about managers, across more than 100 variables, to find out how to build the perfect boss. Their resulting manifesto identifies 8 qualities, presented in order of importance:

1. Be a good coach

Provide specific, constructive feedback, …

Major General Ronald Bailey: Profile in Leadership

March 8, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

Major General Ronald Bailey of the United States Marine Corps, one of the highest ranking African American officers in the military, spoke on leadership in an interview with The Root. He spoke of his ABC’s of leadership, which stand …

What Are Your Plans for Tomorrow?

March 1, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

This is a guest post from John Chancellor and his Teach the Soul blog.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180

My work involves helping people achieve their goals. I want to share an exercise I sometimes use with the people I coach: I simply ask them …

Book Review: Attention!

February 25, 2011 - Written by Kevin
 

I’ve been on a bit of a publicity death march lately with the launch of We, so with some irony I’m late in getting to read and review Jim Kukral‘s Attention: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase …