Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #193 — Stick a Fork In It … and Savor It! This is the time to celebrate. This is the time to envision. Four years ago I longed for something that I didn’t have. I wanted to become for facile speaking to any topic, through the lens of my…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #192 — The End Is Nigh I love what I do! If you’ve been to any of these live broadcasts you’ve seen that with your own eyes. AND … Not everything that I am currently doing is being done the way that I would love to be doing them…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #191 — Know Your Impact Wake Imagine for a moment a motor boat out in the water. The faster that boat goes, the larger its wake, the wave the boat produces as it moves. Out in open water, that’s likely not a problem. In a harbor tightly packed with…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #190 — Leadership = Parenting = Coaching You know those lines you use so often that as soon as you start saying it, your spouse, your partner, your dearest friends, even your family start to roll their eyes? Or they complete the sentence for you? Here’s one of mine:…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #189 — Four Simple Words Can Change a Life Back in May 2013, then-19 year old comedian & mental health activist Kevin Breel gave an incredibly raw and powerful TEDxTalk entitled “Confessions of a Depressed Comic” that spoke to me deeply. His willingness to say what seems like four…
Much of marketing comes down to a complex and creative science these days. With countless elements, directions, goals and possible eventualities for corporations to consider when creating a strategy to reach an audience via social media, even internal marketing teams with many years of expertise can make mistakes.
Not Hiring For The Skills You Need
“Hire for the skills you need to develop and execute a social ad strategy. Either outsource to an agency or bring the person in-house. Stop hacking. Hire for the skills you haven’t mastered!”
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #188 — Be Gentle with Yourself 188 weeks. 3 misses. I’ve been doing Mindset Mondays with DTK for over 3½ years and, as of this week’s episode, I’ve missed getting the Thursday morning email written and released exactly three times. And I’m noticing that as I set down to…
Just because someone has a great business idea doesn’t mean they will know how to execute it. Many aspiring entrepreneurs lack a background in business and have no experience starting and running a company. Fortunately, there are a lot of resources available today to help guide inexperienced up-and-comers in the right direction.
The E-Myth Revisited (Michael E. Gerber)
“Any beginner entrepreneur should read The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber. In fact, I recommend this book to established entrepreneurs as well. The E-Myth Revisited teaches us how to build systems and processes into our companies as if we were going to franchise (even if we never will) so that the systems run the business and the people run the systems. This is the No. 1 one resource for avoiding or ending entrepreneurial burnout!”
Companywide activities and events can be great ways to get everyone involved in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. While these events do spread awareness and can be helpful catalysts for change, as time goes by, employees can easily forget how to implement everything they learned.
Get Participants’ Buy-In During The Event
“Focusing on this after the event is too late! Ask the participants during the event or activity how they want to bring this forward, maintain momentum and measure the impact and effectiveness. Get them to create the structure and get their buy-in. Plan with them; don’t try and be prescriptive after the fact.”
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #187 — Let It Go So You Can Grow Forgiveness. That word is very top of mind for me right now as the Jewish High Holiday Yom Kippur — The Day of Atonement — began last night at sunset and extends through sunset tonight. The word “atonement” is defined…
