Oscar Wilde penned a farcical comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”, where the focus is to maintain a fictitious persona to escape the burdens of social obligations.
In today’s business world of trying to establish meaningful business relationships, Wilde’s characters behaviour is the antithesis of what we need to do. We need to focus on …
Today, I was reading a article on Inc.com and found a link to a short video titled 7 Lessons Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Other Entrepreneurs Learned From Their Fathers .
The video caused me to pause and reflect on the biggest life lessons from my own father…
There were the basic ones, always be truthful and always be …
I was scanning through some TED talks, and I found a presentation by British writer and comedian James Veith. The segment caused many a chuckle and a few outright guffaws. So this post is meant mostly for entertainment value.
Although I highly recommend watching his talk, I would definitely not endorse following in his footsteps, …
Have you ever thought how you can get more bang for your buck?
I was perusing one of my favourite spots to find inspiration and unique insights, www.ted.com. There is so much shared knowledge there I am always in awe of the experiences of their presenters, young through old.
I was looking for a topic for today’s post and searched “business experience”. After review of a few of the …
You’ll see similar articles posted everywhere, so I hope that I am not too severely overlapping someone else’s post.
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to read many, many books on sales and persuasion. Some were memorable and I adopted many of their ideas; others not so much.
One of my favourite sales authors is …
Forgive the bad pun, but when it comes to the world of social selling Koka is the undisputed guru of the realm in my opinion.
Since he left the United States Army, he’s been involved in sales within the tech realm. He’s been focused on business development, sales, and social for over a decade. He …
It’s the “holy grail” and most traditional sales people want to know… when is the best time to cold call a prospective customer. If only we knew that magic witching hour that all of our unknown prospects were waiting to pick up the phone, accept our call and want to be sold our products… …
I was fortunate to attend the DisruptHR KW event a couple days ago. What an inspiring group of presenters, a great format for high energy, inspirational presentation and what an amazing turnout of participants! It was one of the best organized events I’ve attended in awhile.
The first presenter was Kurtis McBride, in the five minutes …
When you receive correspondence from someone you haven’t met before, what’s one of the first things you do? Do you Google them? Check out their LinkedIn profile? That’s what I do. If I receive a call, I am checking LinkedIn as we speak. When I am planning to make a call, or go to …
