You can watch movies for entertainment. Some movies provide NOT only entertainment but also pack some valuable lessons for your life, business or both.
I have collected 9 lessons for entrepreneurs from the movie world
My new column was published today at Lateral Action
There are so many articles about how to influence your audience. This article will talk about six degrees of how you may be influenced by consuming online content.
I answered two more questions on my Q&A site TH!NKsulting.
#11 A “frustrated employee” asks
I am done very well in my career so far. But I have hit a roadblock. My Boss does not seem to understand me. I have taken a number of ideas to him but he never seems to latch on to any of them. It seems like I have hit a glass ceiling. What should I do?
I love your idea of TH!NKSULTING! I had a question regarding personal branding that I was hoping you could help answer. I have a lot of seemingly divergent interests. I’ve been able to manage them by looking at them as projects that I as a person engage in. I always look for ways each project can help my other interests and it really becomes a time management issue after that. However when it comes to a personal brand, which takes some time to build – it seems strange to create a brand for each area of life I am interested in – suddenly start to feel like a I have a personality disorder. Is there a way to create one personal brand that encompasses my divergent interests? If so what steps do you suggest? Or is it a fool’s errand? And if so, how do you suggest I build the unique brands so that there is at least some interconnection between them?
A few years ago, a few friends and I started a company. We had worked on the product extensively but things fell apart as we could not work out the financial terms amicably. How can we avoid this in the future?
(I tend to neglect implementing good ideas and projects, for pursuing new ideas which always seem to be more exciting at the time, until the next new idea comes along)
I am interested in networking but I don’t have the time to connect to many people so that is limiting my ability to network better. What ideas do you have?
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I have been writing a series of articles on “Opportunity” in that newsletter. Here are the links to the last five newsletters so that you can see what is included. If you like it, I urge you to sign up for the weekly newsletter. The link is provided below
I am honored to be interviwed by my friend Wayne Turmel of the Cranky Middle Manager Show. This is special for both of us as this is the 200th show in the series for Wayne and for me, I am speaking on one of my favorite topics.
Wayne talks to me about the being and staying Upbeat in tough times. In the end, there is a quick discussion about networking and building relationships.
This is an audio interview and lasts less than 30 minutes. Here is the link:
For a long time I have had requests to answer questions on this blog and I have avoided that as I didn’t know how to make it work for me and the readers. Answering questions has an inherently built scaling problem. I have only limited time and can only answer a limited number of questions. If I don’t do a reasonably good job, then the person who asked the question won’t benefit – this means there is a bigger time and energy commitment.
But I have found a framework to do that.And, that is called TH!NKSULTING – just like CONsulting but slightly different! Removed the “CON” and replaced it with TH!NK
Very simply, it is to put a small hurdle to ask questions – so only serious people will participate in this. In the current phase, I am accepting questions from those of you who already have some sort of a relationship with me OR you have purchased a copy of THE FULCRUM EFFECT. One of the two – a previous or current working relationship or you have purchased a copy of THE FULCRUM EFFECT DVD. The DVD costs $82 so it may seem expensive but definitely well below my consulting rate.
There is no guarantee that you will like my answer or my answer will solve your problems. That would become CONsuting, I am only doing TH!NKsulting – providing you a perspective to look at your problem in one or two more angles.
You can send questions to “thinksulting” at “gmail” dot “com”
Be very specific but since I am publishing the question and answer, let me know if I can include your initials or not. Please make sure that your question is not “too specific” that it will stop benefiting others. The areas where you can ask me questions include but not limited to
Personal Branding
Lasting Relationships
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
The Art of Leverage
Here are a few questions and links to the answers
We have a project. Can we build a company?
Question from HL:
I have a potential project from a prospect. I think there are other people who have the same problem. Can we build a product in parallel as we are delivering the project?
How can I find people with complementary skills to partner with?
An Aspiring Enrepreneur (name withheld by request) asks:
Entrepreneurship requires different pillars of strengths and skills. One person cannot possess all that. For example, I love to conceptualize an idea with market relevancy and technically build it out to make it a reality. But I dont necessarily have marketing/sales skills. I believe I should partner up with someone who has those skills/experience and contacts, so I am waiting “actively”. What would you suggest me to do differently given my situation?
Should I give up my values for the sake of the team?
Ashwin asks – “I’m sure you’re well experienced in leading a team and currently I’m in a big quandary. How far does one give in to their own values in order for a team to work? For me, leadership is about garnering followership and working with a team to get to a common goal. But when there comes a point where you have to forgo a lot of your values in order for the team to “work”, what do you do?”
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes
Finally, the DVD program is here. This is one my favorite talks because of how much I believe that “understanding leverage” is the biggest key to long-term success. Here is the quick pitch about the DVD program.
A powerful personal brand, long-term relationships, likeability can increase leverage in the personal and professional lives of CEOs. Today’s leaders are living in an age of information overload, global competition, economic uncertainty and are constantly faced with less time to get more done.
By capitalizing on the elements of leverage, the leaders can not only get more results in the short-term but also lay a strong foundation for future success.
Key areas for learning include:
• The key elements of high leverage
• How to capitalize on the unfair advantage of “personal likeability.”
• The art of building a powerful personal brand
• The art of building lasting relationships
• The right tools and the right practices for getting more out of your time
By the end of the presentation, you as leaders will have a whole new way of looking at how to build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships both in their personal and professional lives.
Value: Using real-world stories and examples, Rajesh will get people to think and apply the rules of leverage in their own personal and professional lives.
The result: You will walk away with a new set of tools to leverage their precious assets – their likeability, their personal brand and their existing and new relationships.
In summary, leaders are ready to walk that “extra mile.” This presentation will show how to make that “extra mile” count.
My new column was published today at Lateral Action. This is about the levels of engagement in online conversations. Social Media has lowered the barrier to initiate conversations. Unfortunately, most conversations initiated via social media go nowhere. I talk about how to elevate those conversations and convert them into real relatonships – online and offline. Here is the graphic that will summarize the article
That was the topic of my presentation at the recently concluded #140Conf at NYC.
It was also the day when my new book was released. The new book is titled:
TH!NKtweet 140 bite-sized lessons for a fast paced world.
The entire book was written on Twitter. This is probably the first published book that was entirely written on Twitter.
I am fortunate to have Guy Kawasaki (@guykawasaki) to write the foreword for the book. I am also thankful to all the wonderful people who provided advance praise for the book. You can also read the early reviews of the book here:
I am also thankful to my friends Karine and Francis from StresslimitDesign for designing the book and my partner Mitchell Levy for publishing it.
More on the series coming soon.
Review Copies: If you are interested in getting a review copy (e-version) please contact me via email and mention where you are “intending to review” the book. I will get one sent out asap.
If you want to get the background of how it all started, please watch my talk at the #140Conf below:
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