Please give a listen to my appearance on episode 106 of The Year of Purpose Podcast. The Year of Purpose Podcast with Zephan Moses Blaxberg features speakers, authors, influencers and heroes all over the globe on a journey for purpose.
American businesses and entrepreneurs spend billions on training programs, but over 90% of all training knowledge is lost within a year according to the American Society for Training and Development because the training is never implemented on the front lines. “We don’t have a knowing problem,” says sales trainer Jim Ziegler, “we have a doing […]
Coffee’s For Closers – BlakeI didn’t know he had a name either, but he does: Blake, the sales trainer from hell or more precisely from downtown, from Mitch and Murray, from the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. Blake is sent in to whip a failing sales office back into shape – old school style with threats, […]
You can write the greatest blog in the world… Create videos that rival anything Hollywood and Madison Avenue offer… Post the most perfectly pseudo sarcastic comment about your immaculately filtered instagram featuring the cutest baby wombat in the known world… but if no one sees it… It didn’t really happen. It takes two to tango […]
You ever have the dream where you’re back in high school and you show up late for class and then you remember it’s the final exam and you haven’t studied and then you remember you forgot to put on pants? That happened to me last year, but it wasn’t a dream. I had been invited […]
What’s the difference between a college kid making $15 bucks a night selling candy at professional sporting events and a local celebrity bringing in $500 bucks a night from those same grandstands? Attitude, action and the willingness to be more, to be better. In 1996, Dave Kerpen was a college student selling concessions at Boston […]
In 1940, America was braced for war. Europe was engulfed and we were sure to follow. We just weren’t ready. We didn’t have the manufacturing capabilities needed to build the machinery of war. The men with the know how to get the job done done were soon to be heading for the frontlines. And the […]
About a year ago a list of the most influential people in the automotive industry (according to KLOUT) was published. KLOUT influence isn’t the same thing as real world influence. There wasn’t anyone named Ford on the list or any CEO’s of the automakers or big dealer groups. This was a list of automotive people […]
It was the Tweet heard ’round the world and possibly the best $1,000 spent in the history of marketing. Late one Sunday night in November of 2009, Lady Gaga drove past the Best Buy on West Hollywood Blvd., spotted a throng of fans camping out for her autograph session the next day and tweeted this […]
Judging by my social media feeds this morning, everyone in the free world watched the series finale of Breaking Bad last night. Along with their mothers and their parole agents. Best line: “Dear Dexter, this is how you finish off a series.” There was plenty of gore and violence; Heisenberg went out swinging. But for […]
