Mindsets & Growth
7 Lessons from Jim Collins on The Tim Ferriss Show
> “I’m not really a business author; I just happen to have used companies as the
method to study
Portfolio Career
Creating, building and maintaining a modern career mix
Resources
The Portfolio Career Podcast
Two of things I love most about New York are its pay-it-forward approach and its
densely networked nature.
This combination
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Be Like Bowie
On a cold London morning in 2016, I headed over to the rarified climes of
Mayfair for a meeting.
It
Stage Left
6 lessons from going live with Oprah
I was sitting at my computer willing the words to come.
I’m creating a workbook/guide for independent professionals
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Managing the feeling of being scattered
A feeling of being scattered is pretty common for people seeking to carve out
their own path, especially those with
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Employee of the Month
It’s really easy to let our inner critic run riot.
The negative self-talk, the comparison trap, that nagging feeling
The Tension
Should you be Standing Out, or Fitting In?
One of the risks that comes with flying solo in your career – whether as a
freelancer, consultant or other kind
Mindsets & Growth
Rules of the Game
The first exercise in this wonderful little cartooning and illustration book is
to draw an oval with three lines through
Coaching
Finding mentors & advisors: 1:1 or a roster?
A couple of weeks ago I attended a really interesting seminar at Orbital here in
NYC.
The hosts Gary and
Coaching
Trust, Lock-in and Switching Costs for Coaches, Consultants, and Advisors
This is post is about lock-in.
Let’s get the Urban Dictionary definition out of the way first (it’s
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
What do they remember you by?
Positioning, Storytelling and Epitaphs for building a network and career
One of the inevitable obligations for celebrities launching a new
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When is it hard to do, or easy to finish?
This can often be the case for freelancers doing work for a client.
Hard to do as it’s not
Mindsets & Growth
The trouble with saying No
A few years ago Derek Sivers wrote a popular post called Hell Yeah, or No.
[https://sivers.org/hellyeah]
I
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Knowing what's more trouble than it's worth
A friend was recently given a cheesemaking class as a gift.
The class focused on how to make the soft
Future Of Work
Build, Buy, Borrow, or...
A few weeks ago I was teaching a course at the HQ of one of the biggest and
well-storied companies
Future Of Work
If Jobs were Houses
Last week a bunch of us were chatting about how searching and applying for jobs
operates right now.
For me
Portfolio Career
Lowercase skills
You may be familiar with concepts like T-shaped or I-shaped people to help
simplify the way we think about skillsets
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3 elements for making deals as a freelancer or consultant
Today my pal Tom came over to my place for lunch. [1]
Tom is a digital marketing & strategy consultant,