Remember those long-ago days when hotels didn’t have hair dryers? I do. Lugging them around was a pain. Internationally, it was worse stuffing converters in your tennis shoes to save packing space. Time marches on, and what I find works best for me now is a flat iron. Because hair is the last thing you […]
Becoming Indispensable
I Had to Fire Someone Today
It’s not much fun knowing all weekend that, odds on, you are going to have to let someone go first thing Monday morning. Especially in this economy. Still, there are times when it is absolutely necessary. And I’ve never been as certain that it was necessary as I was today. Here’s the sad thing. […]
Sex Isn’t Selling? Martin Lindstrom’s Buyology
In spite of conventional wisdom, the research reveals other factors are far more important if you’re spending millions of dollars to push product. That’s what best seller Martin Lindstrom tells us in his new book Buyology. It’s called neuromarketing and it’s hot. Martin has been studying the neurology and neuroimaging of thousands of people in one […]
Executive Recruiter Nancy Keene: Becoming Indispensable Part III
I’ve been writing a lot recently on how to become indispensable. This is one idea, directly or indirectly, I talk about with my clients all the time. It’s really another take on the idea of creating value. In today’s new economic reality, where people are scared out of their wits and freaked out about jobs, […]
Frank Springett World Engineer of the Year Award: Becoming Indispensable II
I have a client, an engineer and an inventor, Frank Springett, who recently won the World Oil Industry Outstanding Engineer of the Year Award. Frank has developed a stable of patents for equipment in deep sea oil rigs. Not only is he smart, he’s a pretty cool guy as well. So I asked him what […]