Thoughts on people, teams, organizations, communities, effectiveness and success
The reader responded simply to the post “How to be Discovered .” “I just want,” she wrote, “to make myself visible.”
There are a few general things to consider and at least four things she might do based on what’s going on.
Here are the considerations that would run through my mind were I coaching her:
There are random events, and there are events that are chock full of patterns: the trick is knowing one set of events from the other, and in figuring out what, if anything, any patterns mean.
Something as simple as a run chart stuck up on your bulletin board wall helps you plot experience, whether it be the number of times your seven year old wakes-up at nights (less common lately – thank goodness) or the number of times things a client calls with one “last” change.… Read the rest
Just as in sports, some people in business seem to have the knack – and luck – of being in the right place at the right time. But how do they do it, and what can you learn from them that can work for you?
Here are six things you can do to raise your discovery profile:
1. Do great work.… Read the rest
There is a quote someplace about “don’t sweat the details.”
When it comes to company building, though, sweating the details is what separates those that thrive – and survive– from start-up road kill. It’s exactly doing those (thoughtful) details that break or make a new company, not only the big picture stuff that might have sparked the launch.
That point was driven home working with a client this past week: successful over their first few years of existence the firm is at a point where they’re past start-up “survival mode” and focused on the things that will sustain them for years to come.… Read the rest
Like thousands of others, you probably have already read “Ten Secrets Headhunters (Usually) Don’t Tell You” ( here ) which covered the in and outs of working with headhunters. (Readers can go also through the full basics of job-hunting by reading the “Choose Me, Hire Me” series which starts here .)
But while headhunters can be helpful career advisors, few are.… Read the rest
Burning Man , that once a year event around the US Labor Day holiday where 50,000 mostly strangers set up an instant community in the Black Rock Desert area of northeastern Nevada evokes a couple, at least, of reactions.
For people from the North American Pacific West, it’s another mostly ho-hum event in which people learn, laugh, love, work, and have fun.… Read the rest