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Keith Ferrazzi’s
Relationship Masters Academy
The SMART Checklist
Last week we asked you to try your hand at creating a SMART goal statement. This week let’s go through a checklist to make sure your statement meets the SMART criteria. Is your goal Specific? Does your statement identify what you’re concretely trying to do? Does your statement identify everyone who is involved? Does your [...]
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The Focus Statement
The first step in building your people strategy is to create a clear and concise statement of what success means. While defining success may seem like a no-brainer, most people and teams rarely take the time to spell out what they hope to achieve. Instead, they assume that success metrics (whether quotas or body weight) [...]
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Shake and lean, baby…at least lean!
Have you ever noticed how “BIGWIGS” invariably greet one another? Whether at a meeting, a cocktail reception or a late night talk show – the ritual is standard, as fascinating as it is predictable: A robust handshake (sometimes accompanied by a Clinton-like upper-arm-grasp) followed by the lean in and whisper… So what’s the secret? What [...]
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Says You!
Never before have you mattered more. The LEVELING OF AMERICA is upon us and with it comes possibilities and perils unimagined even a generation ago. What is happening right outside your door, on every street corner, corner office and Starbucks is changing the world as you know it and, more importantly, changing your place in [...]
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It had to be you!
Want approval for a project? Want to get a job? Want to make a sale? Whether the executive we are trying to convince is our boss, our client or our peer, most people understand the need to frame the choice in ways that offer clear benefits to the person making the decision. My project will [...]
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3D U (Part Three)
Several weeks ago, we embarked on a 3-part series on how to live a 3-dimensional life. In post #1 we talked about the 10,000 hour investment needed to develop your first dimension by becoming world-class at something. The first dimension makes you a mile deep. In post #2 we talked about how to develop your second [...]
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3D U! (Part Two)
Two weeks ago we started a 3-part series focused on what you need to be truly successful – not the things you need to promote your success (like networking) but what’s in the package of knowledge and skills that underlay the personal brands of massively successful individuals. We interrupted the series to bring you a [...]
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Kony 2012: 84,000,000 Reasons Why People Plans Work
Note: We are interrupting our planned blog post schedule to deliver a hopefully useful analysis of a current event Beneath its emotional logic, the heart of the fastest growing social action campaign in history rests squarely on the creation and execution of a people plan. Our consulting firm has been teaching this method for decades, [...]
3D U! (Part One)
Every Olympian jump is less about one “giant leap for mankind” and more about the “one small step” of someone DEDICATED to a carefully planned series of small, simple steps. Author Malcolm Gladwell teaches us that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Another way to say this is that it takes [...]
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Three Smart Ways to Invest in Relationships with Warren Buffett