Personal branding is something I’ve thought a lot about for years. Branding is about a business, product, or service. Personal branding is about helping the person behind the product to stand out. It’s a way to drive a strong perception of the type of person you are and by extension, […]
Business
Content Marketing in 2020
Content marketing gets a bad rap because a lot of it is so badly wrapped. What happens in the land of marketing and business (b2b marketing or B2C – it doesn’t matter) is that someone takes a good concept and sullies it with poor execution. A strong intention becomes a […]
Personal Leadership
Personal leadership is at the core of my new project, StoryLeader™. My premise is that in a world where effective leadership is more of a team sport, great leaders are the kind who work to develop their teams with good leadership qualities of their own. Let’s talk about which leadership […]
Business Storytelling
Business storytelling is the act of using story as a way to interact with others to convey business values and/or business information. I like to say that “story is the best unit of memory” (tweetable) and that’s because the goal of business storytelling is to help information stick, both internally […]
Don’t Try to Be Authentic. Be Brave
“How to be authentic.” People talk to me about authenticity a lot because they pay me the “compliment” that I am authentic. First, I don’t think it’s a good pursuit: learning how to be authentic. Second, I feel there’s a better goal: how to be brave. Because when people talk […]