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How to become insanely well-connected
Chris Fralic is known for helping launch TED Talks and wrote a landmark Forbes piece on nailing email introductions. Here are Fralic’s seven rules for making memorable connections.
The Art Of The Email Introduction: 10 Rules For Emailing Busy People
Before we get to the details and specifics, at a higher level I think there are several overarching themes and goals that business professionals should be. 1) Help everyone involved 2) Make it easy to help you 3) Build relationships and reputation along the way
Socratic Questions that can Provide Clarity
Socratic questioning is at the heart of critical thinking and a number of homework problems draw from R.W. Paul's six types of Socratic questions
Fear of Success: Do You Have One Of These 6 Symptoms?
I saw the bright yellow headline: “Are you afraid of success?” It irritated me so much that I slapped the magazine back onto the waiting room table. Who is afraid of success!? I thought. I’m sick of people inventing anxieties and then foisting them upon the rest of...
Make Your Fear of Success Obsolete
Essentially, when you fear the things that go along with success (busier schedule, more scrutiny, detractors, added work, new tasks, new people), you start to work against yourself. Because you do want success, but also don’t really want to reach that place. Today,...
The Secret to Setting A Successful Goal
So how do we take a less-successful business goal and transform it into a more successful one? We just have to fill in three blanks: 1. Here is what I am trying to change (or: Here is what I keep doing instead of the thing I want to do): 2. What supports what’s...
An article about self-worth disguised in a pricing article
I have two questions for you: Pay close attention to how you answer each one, okay? Question #1: How much would you pay to hear me recite poetry for an hour? _____ Question #2: How much would I have to pay you to come listen to me recite poetry for an hour? ______ In...
15 Reasons Millennials Are (Secretly) Afraid Of Success
3 Reasons You’re Afraid of Success and How to Get Over It
Being successful is a complex desire that we strive for from a very early age. For some, it will take years to achieve, and at great expense. For others, it seems to happen overnight with little effort at all. What is it that separates those who have achieved success...
The 9 Skills Needed to Be a Super-Connector
Connecting people who can benefit each other is the most useful skill you can have on the entrepreneurial ladder of skills. When you help others make money by connecting them together, the world forces itself into the Möbius strip of success that brings the money...