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Are conferences worth our time? I spent the last two days at Digital Summit 2012 conference in the Atlanta area. As today neared the closing session, I was reflecting on some notes I had taken and I thought “what am I really learning from all this?” Certainly it’s a question that attendees, presenters, sponsors, and booth marketers ask themselves at conferences. Was the conference worth the cost, energy, and time spent?
The classic answers. – It’s a chance to network and find out what others are doing in my industry. – It’s a chance to listen to speakers talk about how they have solved problems we all face. – It’s …Continue reading >>
Poke the Box by Seth Godin is a quick and easy read. While some may confuse it with a motivational type book, Godin’s points are a bit deeper. The two word summary is
Start Something.
Godin says “I’m merely encouraging you to start. Often. Forever. Be the one who starts things.” Starting things is like poking the box to see what will happen.The manifesto is a call for people to shed excuses, fear, and procrastination and to pursue their ideas. That’s certainly not a new principle. But Godin states his ideas in a clear, concise, and easy to understand format that worth your time to read.
He gives …Continue reading >>
July 14th, 2010 | | Tags: career game, career mentorWe live in an age of specialization. You see it in the medial profession, in corporate america, and in professional sports. One area where I have not noticed a great deal of content about specialization is in career mentoring. Career mentoring itself gets a great deal of thought in books, blogs, and self-help publications. From my reading though, the act of career mentoring is regarded as a specialty (of sorts) unto itself. So I wonder, is it too much to try to have mentors in specific areas of your career?
For example, as an executive with responsibilities in multiple areas should you seek to have a mentor in each area? …Continue reading >>
I recently read Your Career Game: How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional Goals by Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles. Based on the title and reference to game theory, I expected the book would be a technical read and perhaps one that I only scanned for practical insights. What I found, was an easy to read book filled with many pages of interviews and practical straight talk about career progression. It was a definite value-add to my career journey and I found myself wishing I had read something like this in my twenties.
The interviews in the book are conducted with a diverse set of leaders from multiple industries. They …Continue reading >>
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