Posts Tagged ‘storytelling’
The “Right” Way to Steal Other People’s Brilliant Business Ideas
Is it ever OK to “steal” someone else’s ideas – in business? Surprisingly: Yes. Not long ago, a friend of mine found herself in the kind of situation that would make anyone’s stomach twist into knots. My friend (an entrepreneur with a modestly popular website and blog) discovered that a woman in another country had…
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9 Strategic Actions to Take Now to Be a Thought Leader — and Become a Media Darling
So many people call themselves thought leaders now – but they aren’t. To be a thought leader takes some doing. It’s not so much about being original as it is about putting things together in an original way. Thought leadership marketing comes down to packaging your knowledge, skills, abilities, experiences, and yes, your thoughts in a way that makes you media worthy and worth listening to by your audience—a huge audience. Follow these nine steps to get going on the path to be respected, heard and reverberated out into the world.
Read More5 Things I learned From Jack Canfield’s Mastermind Group: To Help Make Your Book a Bestseller
We were all sitting in Jack Canfield’s living room on a huge couch in his home in Santa Barbara surrounded by giant gems, crystals, artwork and views into the lush gardens reminiscent of Canfield’s beloved Hawaii. Canfield mentioned that he wanted a room where diplomats and leaders of countries as well as his family could…
Read MoreJob Interviewing Skills: No chatting, dissing, or bragging
By Susan Harrow, Media Coach & Author of Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul Here’s the situation. You’re in an important job interview and your cell phone rings. Do you answer it? You’re asked a question about your former job that you despised, do you diss it? You feel pretty confident about yourself, do you…
Read MoreOur brains are wired for storytelling
In an interview for CIO, Bran Ferren executive vice president for creative technology and R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, Calif., says, “The Web is a storytelling medium. Most people function in a storytelling mode. It’s the way we communicate ideas, richly, as well as how we structure our thoughts.”
“As well as how we structure our thoughts”-that’s an interesting statement.
Tell me more about that.
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