Personal Branding in a Digital World

Episode #12 of The Digital Loop

In this episode, Paul and I focus on Personal Branding.

Enjoy!

The Digital Loop: Personal Branding

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The Digital Loop: Personal Branding (Audio Only)

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Quote of the week

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
Warren Buffett

Quote of the week

“One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.“
Seth Godin

Quote of the week

“For many people, twenty years of experience is really one year of experience repeated twenty times“
Andy Hargadon

Quote of the week

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alan Weiss on becoming a succesful consultant

Alan Weiss is one of the most successful Management Consultants in the world, and by far, one of my biggest source of guidance and inspiration. He is the best-selling author of more than 40 books, including the remarkable Million Dollar Consulting (Amazon affiliate link) (Note: if you want to watch my review of this outstanding book click here)

Recently Alan was invited to lecture at Harvard University, where he shared tons of extremely valuable advice.

In this presentation he talks about:

- Setting your own path
- The real definition of Consulting
- Why you need to reinvent yourself constantly
- What is the most important skill you need to be a consultant
- The Value-Distance concept
- What is the biggest reason why Consultants fail
- Value-Based Fees
- How to develop your position in the market
- Why you do not need a business plan
- What is innovation
- How to implement and monetize any opportunity
- The 1% solution
- and much more.

The presentation’s duration is around 80 minutes. Trust me, I know how valuable your time is, and I can tell you that watching this 80 minutes video is most definitely worth it.

Enjoy!

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Malcom Gladwell on Meaningful Work

Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of outstanding books such as Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Outliers: The Story of Success (Amazon affiliate links), gives in this video two great examples of hard work that later looked like genius.

Bill Gates got up at 02:00 am to program as a teenager, while The Beatles played together 1200 times, far more than most bands, before they ever got famous.

The point is: Success is the result of putting your heart and mind into something to create successful, meaningful work.

Enjoy!

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Do not follow your passion

“Follow your passion” has been for a long time a sort of “gospel” when most people talk about accomplishing success. Thousands of career advisors, coaches, “experts” and self-help books spread the gospel every year on how, in order to be succesful, you must “follow your passion“.

Well … Cal Newport, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and author of the new book: So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (Amazon affiliate link), recently spoke at Google where he shared his views on why “follow your passion” is actually a terrible advice and on what it takes to build skills that matter and, as a result, develop a remarkable career by creating work you love.

The presentation’s duration is around 40 minutes. Trust me, I know how valuable your time is, and I can tell you that watching these 40 minutes is most definitely worth it.

Enjoy!

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By the way, I have not yet have the opportunity to read the book (is not yet available on Kindle (Amazon affiliate link) [why Amazon?]), but based on this video and on the book’s summary, it looks like this is an important book that you should definitely check out, regardless of where you are in your career.

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Stop Stealing Dreams

What is school for?

That is a crucial question we should ask ourselves and in this outstanding TEDx Talk by Seth Godin, he challenges us to think about the future of education and what can we do about it.

Stop Stealing Dreams

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After watching this remarkable video, I invite you to go to the Stop Stealing Dreams page and download Seth’s ebook. This is important. As Seth says:

“Our kids are too important to sacrifice to the status quo.“

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Quote of the week

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.“
Jessica Hische