Being Indispensable – Nicholas Bate
Another essential list from Nicholas Bate: Being Indispensable 7: 1. Know your client. … What do they really want? 2. Make sure they get it. 6. Increase the value you offer day by day, week by week, quarter by quarter. Important insight for an employee, critical for a sovereign professional. Read the full list, here, and ponder. […]
LinkedIn is suddenly a hot social network. Here’s what changed – @AdWeek #contentmarketing
LinkedIn is becoming a powerful channel for B2B content marketers. Interesting article in AdWeek. Authenticity and polite discourse are two reasons why business periodicals have embraced LinkedIn as a publishing platform. Since the beginning of this year, Bloomberg’s LinkedIn follower count has doubled to roughly 1.5 million, says Havens, while user engagement is literally off […]
Did you Publish? – @thisisseth #writing
A reminder, or call to arms, from Seth: “They (whoever ‘they’ is) made it easy for you to raise your hand. They made it easy for you to put your words online, your song in the cloud, your building designs, business plans and videos out in the world. They made it easy for you to […]
10 things that all creators must know – @chasejarvis #writing
A great post and podcast from Chase Jarvis. Essential insights include: “2. Clients cannot tell you what they need. 4. Big challenges create the best work. 9. A-Gamers work with A-Gamers Read (or listen to) the rest, here. Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash
Command the room – @artofmanliness
As a sovereign professional, you spend an inordinate amount of time entering unfamiliar rooms, full of strangers. It’s unavoidable. You need to meet new clients and potential clients. You need to attend conferences, training and those semi-social-semi-business occasions. You may even feel that life is a little too long, so you burn some surplus life-energy […]
The true doctrine of self-reliance, self-help and self-mastery
The ever rich and varied Hammock Papers has this great quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: Something can be done by good laws; more can be done by honest administration of the laws; but most of all can be done by frowning resolutely upon the preachers of vague discontent; and by upholding the true doctrine of self-reliance, […]
The Basics: Confidence – Nicholas Bate
Another in Nicholas Bate’s series of the Basic 7s. This one is interesting. Working independently as a freelancer, portfolio worker, sovereign professional or even as an individual contributor within a large organisation, it’s easy to have lapses in confidence. Here are seven basic steps to follow: “2. Read about those who inspire you and copy their […]
Taking it for granite – @thisisseth
Sound advice from Seth, here. And who can resist a tasty pun: “Those bedrock institutions, the foundational supports you take for granted–they rarely last forever. Nurturing and investing in the things we need and count on needs to be higher on the agenda.”
Knives, tell them well – @thisisseth
Seth Godin on knives: “Cooks know that a sharp knife is less likely to cause injury, because it goes where you point it. It does what you tell it to do, which means you can focus on what you want the outcome to be. The challenge of a sharp knife is that it puts ever […]
The relevance of Ayn Rand – @ASI
Eamonn Butler, at the Adam Smith Institute, discusses the increasing influence of Ayn Rand 35 years after her death.