Category Archives: Professional Development

Critical Anecdotal Mass

While staying with some relatives, my wife and I visited their church. The pastor began his message with an anecdote, a personal story involving him and his wife during their dating years. The story was humorous and seemed to get the attention of the church congregation. He then continued into a 3-point sermon about… something. …

September 30, 2011 – 8:30 am | By DUST!N | Posted in brand you, Branding, Customer Experience, Personal Brand, Professional Development | Comments (0)

Write Your Name in The Margin

The world continues to move at ever-increasing speed. Twitter is not going to slow down for you to catch your breath. Not only is work filling your day, but so are non-profits. Even consumer marketing seems to be vying for your time (“Visit our website.” “Fill out this survey.” “Engage in these conversations.”) instead of …

April 16, 2010 – 11:58 am | By DUST!N | Posted in brand you, Personal Brand, Professional Development, Society, Success | Comments (0)

“Post-It Note” Your Brand

We’ve talked about the difficulty in discerning your unique, personal brand. Here’s an exercise that can help you see a snapshot of your life and/or career, and ultimately help you define the ‘Brand Called You’ (ala Tom Peters). Post-It Note Timeline First, you’ll need three colors of Post-It Notes. In this example, we’ll be using …

January 15, 2010 – 8:00 am | By DUST!N | Posted in brand you, Branding, Personal Brand, Professional Development, Purpose | Comments (2)

The Race and The Chase

Do you remember chasing anything as a kid? … chasing friends while playing tag. … chasing your pet dog as he was running away with the chew toy. … chasing your dad around the house, eventually falling in a heap on the couch and ending in a tickle fight. At some point, many of us …

December 18, 2009 – 8:20 am | By DUST!N | Posted in brand you, human spirit, Personal Brand, Professional Development, Purpose, Success | Comments (0)

Living Among Critics

Last night, I attended a meeting held by my daughter’s teacher. She was explaining the structure of the class and led us through some sample exercises she uses with the students. Occasionally, she called upon us parents for volunteers to read or give answers. I was stunned by the silence and awkward glances downward. The …

October 10, 2008 – 2:25 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in brand you, human spirit, Personal Brand, Persuasion, Professional Development, Society | Comments (3)

Privilege

“A sense of privilege is what motivates us to finish the mission.” Pastor Paul Taylor, Liberty Church Do you feel privileged? Do your employees or colleagues?

October 2, 2008 – 12:24 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in Human Resources, managing people, Professional Development | Comments (0)

Talent vs. Time

Challenging thoughts from Brian at d’bug. After reading this, ask yourself: Am I willing to sacrifice in order to have time to be the best? What do I need to sacrifice? What do I believe should NOT be sacrificed?

August 8, 2008 – 2:21 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in Human Resources, human spirit, Professional Development | Comments (1)

The Info and the Forum

MIT has a great resource including free videos of presentations made at MIT by an impressive line-up of speakers. Jack Welch, Jeffrey Bezos and Carly Florina just to name a few. I’ve known about this for a while and yet I’ve only watched one presentation video. If these speakers were making appearances here in Tulsa, …

September 28, 2007 – 9:28 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Professional Development, Technology, websites | Comments (2)

10 Signs You’re Killing Creativity

In his popular ’06 TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes an inspiring, and entertaining, argument that we are educating the creativity out of our children. It’s not hard to see how corporations are on creativity killing sprees as well. Here are the top 10 signs you’re killing creativity: 1. You Preach ‘Safety First’ If you …

September 21, 2007 – 9:53 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Business Management, Creativity, Human Resources, Ideas, Professional Development | Comments (2)

Optimized Book Reading

I was working on a post for last week, but wanted it to be spend more time on it. (faulty ‘perfectionistic’ thinking on my part)  I’ll post it Friday. To make up for it, here’s an article I found on optimizing your book reading experience: How to Get the Most Out of Your Books I …

September 4, 2007 – 3:03 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in books, Professional Development | Comments (1)

Battling the Generic Brand

I’ve loved, I’ve laughed and cried I’ve had my fill, my share of losing And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing To think I did all that And may I say, not in a shy way, “Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way“ – Frank Sinatra, My …

July 13, 2007 – 11:04 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Branding, Personal Brand, Professional Development, Purpose, Society | Comments (2)

12 Rules for Self Leadership

I love these 12 principles of self-leadership from Rosa Sayat Lifehacker. This is my favorite 5. Learn to love ideas and experiments. Turn them into pilot programs that preface impulsive decisions. Everything was impossible until the first person did i

April 20, 2007 – 4:35 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in Personal Brand, Professional Development | Comments (0)

Tulsa Marketing Events of Interest

Management Impact Wednesday, Feb 28th 2007 BMA Tulsa Luncheon (11:30 -1:00) Jack Hayhow of Opus Communications Focusing on the four key activities of all great managers, Jack will show how great managers provide employees what they need to increase productivity and profit. Jack and his book, Wisdom of the Flying Pig, were featured on Brand …

February 23, 2007 – 5:58 pm | By DUST!N | Posted in Branding, Human Resources, Marketing, Personal Brand, Professional Development | Comments (1)

In Sheep’s Clothing

We’re on the lookout for wolves. You know… back-stabbers, saboteurs, spies and just plain evil-doers. We suspect they’re among us. The wolf in sheep’s clothing. But there’s something much more dangerous in our midst, also masquerading as sheep. This “silent killer” of companies is much harder to find than the wolf. He wears the disguise …

February 16, 2007 – 11:10 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Branding, Customer Experience, Human Resources, Personal Brand, Professional Development, Seth Godin | Comments (2)

7 Business Lessons of the Prodigal Son

You’ve probably heard of the prodigal son, and you probably also know it originates from a story Jesus told. (you can read it here) What you probably don’t think about is how it relates to your company. Oh boy, does it. Here are lessons from this story that we can apply to business today: 1. …

October 27, 2006 – 9:33 am | By DUST!N | Posted in Human Resources, Professional Development, Society, Spirituality | Comments (2)