Tips for easing the overwhelm of tax season
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Every entrepreneur knows the hustle of getting tax information together to prepare for end of year tax returns. ...
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Get Big Things Done with Erica Dhawan
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I have long been a fan of Malcolm Gladwell's book Tipping Point, in particular, the "Connectors, Mavens and Salesmen" chapter where he talks about different personality types that impact social change. ...
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Playing Big with Tara Mohr
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Whenever we set out to make things better in our lives -- improve our career, grow our business, get in shape, make a bigger impact in the world -- fear and doubt creep in. ...
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How to think like a marketer and sell like a superstar -- with John Jantsch
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When I first started writing about small business marketing many years ago, one of the first people I heard about was John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. John had a great reputation, a solid business and a well-respected and highly trafficked blog. ...
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Scaling Up Excellence
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Many entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars. ...
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Meaning at work, teens and the power of the underdog - Interview with author Josh Shipp
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I have always been a huge fan of underdogs. Josh Shipp started his life without a safety net. Abandoned at birth by his mother, he spent most of his youth bouncing between foster homes, growing increasingly disillusioned and angry....
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Must-Read Book of 2013: Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg
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When you think about it, navigating your life is a series of negotiations....
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Live your life so that you DIE EMPTY: Interview with Todd Henry
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There are some people I meet who I instantly feel not just a connection with, but true kinship. Todd Henry is one of these people....
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Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success with Dan Schawbel
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Many years ago, when I was in the early years of blogging at Escape from Cubicle Nation, I heard about a young man named who was writing like crazy about personal branding and millenials in the workplace. His name and face were everywhere, as he wrote for his own blog, as well as grew an impressive byline in places like Fortune, Time and Fast Company....
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Turn your questions into instant answers: Interview with Dan Martell
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Imagine that you are driving down the road and you get a call from your office that a VC is interested in talking to you about investing in your business, but the only time they have to meet with you is tomorrow at noon. You have never put together a pitch before, and feel slightly panicked. But then you open an app, say "How to make a VC pitch" and immediately get 5 names of experienced VCs. You scan the list, see that one of them is Mark Cuban, and say "call Mark" and in 2 minutes you have him on the phone, coaching you through tomorrow's presentation (of course you scanned the list when you...
info_outlineMany entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars.
Such things rarely happen.
But scaling happens every day, in our career, our business or our workplace. We are constantly trying to improve ourselves, share our ideas, and put in systems and infrastructure that will grow our organizations without destroying that which made them great.
Stanford professors Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao describe in their exceptionally well-researched and readable new book, Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less that knowing how to scale is a critical skill for the 21st century workplace.
And they have 7 years worth of research, analysis and case studies, consolidated into this great book.
In my lively conversation with Bob Sutton, we discuss:
- Scaling excellence in your own career
- Scaling up competence as startups get past bootstrapping
- Looking for hot causes and cool solutions
- Why big teams suck
- Scaling excellence in large companies: Why change should happen in pockets of excellence, not be spread like peanut butter across an organization
Bob has been my "adopted professor" and High Council of Jedi Knight member for the last 8 years. I respect his work so much, and hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!
Read more about the book and order it here: http://scalingupexcellence
Give Bob a shout out on Twitter @work_matters