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Dec 22

4 Crucial Pieces of Advice for Advisors

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“Talent isn't enough. You need common sense and good advice. Don't let what happened to me happen to you.”   These are the words spoken by Lewis "Hack" Wilson, a week before his death in an interview given to CBS Radio. The baseball great who made his Major League debut in 1923, went on to play twelve seasons in the big leagues. In his prime, he was the highest paid player of his day, yet he died penniless. Hack Wilson didn’t say, “You just need advice.” He said, “You need good advice.” I have several advisors in my life – my financial advisor for…
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Dec 01

7 Ways Nick Saban and Mark Richt Can Help Your Career

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If you're the head football coach of an NCAA Southeastern Conference (SEC) Football team, don't expect much help with your career from Nick Saban. In fact, you should expect him to be a career saboteur. Just consider the fate of Mark Richt, who was fired three days ago after he fell short of benefactors expectations, finishing the year with 9 wins and 3 losses. In his 15 year run as head coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, he won 74% (145) of his 196 games. Not bad, but not good enough to keep his job. The two time SEC…
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Nov 09

2 Lunch Eaters That Will Destroy Your Effectiveness

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There’s 2 things that eat the lunch of successful people and sabotage effectiveness: Thing 1 – Time Thing 2 – Stress Thing 1 – Time. Who among us has not at one time or another attempted “time management”. The problem is that you can't manage time – you can only manage your schedule. Time doesn’t stand still for anyone. Time is a non-replenishable commodity, unlike money. You can lose all your money and be down to your last dollar, but you can take that last dollar and invest it properly and turn it into fortunes. Time spent is time gone, whether…
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Oct 28

Need a Halftime Career Detox?

By Book Briefs, Personal Development
According to best-selling author Bob Buford, “halftime” is something all successful people will go through. But it’s not just a break in the action to rest and re-group for the second half of the same game. It’s more like a type of career detox, or midlife renewal for the second half. We’re not talking about a football game here. We’re talking about the game of life. Specifically, developing a new game plan for the rest of your life. In his book simply titled Halftime, Buford says, “After a successful first half, I needed a break to make some changes in how…
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Oct 13

How to Get Unstuck

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What can you learn from a music major who’s first job out of college was that of a secretary for a retail brokerage firm in New York City; who went from there to being an investment banker, and on to become a top ranked equity analyst, to writing a children’s book, and then a blogger on work-life issues, to a hedge fund manager? You can learn how to disrupt yourself! You might say Whitney Johnson has taken an unconventional career path, or perhaps it might just be the normal path for knowledge workers in the twenty-first century. Johnson adapted the…
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Oct 06

Heroes Among Us – The 1000 Year Flood

By Organizational Development, Personal Development No Comments
It's been heartwarming and humbling for me to witness the heroism of friends, neighbors and total strangers as a frontline participant to what many are referring to as the "The 1000 Year Flood". To stand beside a neighbor that I barely know and hear him talk about rescuing two other neighbors neither he nor I knew, is surreal (see attached video).  These poor souls I'm referring to were clinging for their lives to the entrance of our subdivision gate after a surge from a local dam break released millions of gallons of water down-stream, immediately creating whitewater rapids that swept through parts of…
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Sep 23

How to Tell if You’re For Real

By Book Briefs, Organizational Development
What do Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, BMW, Zippo, Harley Davidson, and LL Bean have in common? They are all “authentic brands" says Michael Beverland, professor of marketing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, a brand marketing researcher and author of the book Building Brand Authenticity - 7 Habits of Iconic Brands.  So just what makes a brand authentic? Beverland says authenticity is synonymous with truth.  One way tell if a brand is truthful or not is to look at the marketing efforts of a company.  Traditional marketers want to control the consumer with a top down approach.  Beverland says they try to manage consumers'…
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Sep 15

How To Improve Your Business IQ By Watching TV

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Want to improve your business practice, increase revenues and widen margins? Then watch more TV. Not just anything on TV, specifically The Profit. The Profit falls on a continuum somewhere between a historical reenactment and a Harvard Business School Case Study. For those of us who prefer a text book with a story line, this 1-hour show that airs on CNBC is a must. Its great viewing for the business leader of a large corporation, all the way down to the individual that's just leading a small mom and pop enterprise. The show’s star is Marcus Lemonis. In each episode,…
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Sep 11

9/11 Remembered…

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"He gave his life so that others could live.  I love you, I miss you and we'll meet again soon."                        - Irene Smith, Mother of fallen NYC Firefighter Leon Smith, Jr. Fourteen years ago today, our country was attacked by the Islamic terrorist group al-Quaeda through a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks using commercial passenger planes.  Here is just one story from 9/11/2001... His name was Todd Beamer.  The thirty-two year old husband to Lisa and father to David and Drew, was in a small group of guys that…
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Sep 02

Book Brief: “Zero to One”

By Book Briefs, Organizational Development
This week’s “Book Brief” of “Zero to One” highlights the unconventional thoughts of Peter Thiel, the 47 year old entrepreneur, venture capitalist and hedge fund manager.  Peter and his friends Max Levchin and Elon Musk founded PayPal, and Thiel was the first outside investor in Facebook in 2004, one of his many ventures that has helped him amass over $2 billion in net worth. Who should read this book:  Anyone starting a business or anyone who is wanting to take their business to the next level. But read the book only if you’re interested in going from “Zero to One”.…
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