People buzz a great deal these days about ‘partnerships’, ‘collaboration’ and ‘joint ventures’ – but to be nifty and effective about these, we have to get to trust each other – and quickly.
And do you ever get the feeling intuitively when you meet someone, that you can trust them – but that their behaviour signals are not helping convey this?
When we doubt each other, negotiations and deals take longer, we’ll hold back commitment and resource Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on March 15, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/03/15/why-trust-triggers-may-be-your-missing-asset/
So he just writes books about how to have bigger boobs and stuff like that’ says my friend ‘ then he sells millions online, and just hangs out in coffee shops with his laptop’
We are talking about our consciences Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on March 11, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/03/11/your-conscience-is-it-strangling-your-success/
Or how naughty beats nice…
Sorry guys, but this post has a female focus this week – as am out and about speechifying for International Women’s Day. Teenage sons here are Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on March 4, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/03/04/why-naughty-beats-nice/
So Wales, the small country I come from, beat England at rugby over the weekend…and on Sunday night Meryl Streep won best actress at the Oscars, for her part in The Iron Lady, Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on February 25, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/02/25/an-untold-story/
People are asking for Personal Branding workshops a lot at the moment. And every time a request comes in, this image momentarily flies into mind:
I’ve puzzled why this Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on February 19, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/02/19/is-social-media-making-you-less-interesting/
Am needing to come up with a good idea fast here at the moment – and struggling.
It’s in a field I know little about, video-making, which is most of the problem. So straight after writing this, I’m back to the Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on February 13, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/02/13/are-you-soft-enough-to-be-creative/
‘I don’t do networking’ says my friend and sometime guru, Tony. ‘It’s always about sellers not buyers’.
This got me thinking. Tony is wise, shrewd and been Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on February 6, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/02/06/stealth-networking-11-tactics/
When I was an undergrad, our university librarian was poet Philip Larkin.
This made the library much more popular for Special Honours Drama, than it would have been otherwise.
We ran a weekly competition for greatest number of sightings of the esteemed poet, between the shelves. As drama students we were mostly liars, Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on January 29, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/01/29/how-librarians-are-coming-out/
So…this arrived in the mailbox here this week:
‘We received 15 quotes in response to our advertisement, 14 of which offered proposals which more than adequately met our brief. I regret to advise that, on this occasion, your bid was not successful, regrettably it was Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on January 21, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/01/21/how-not-to-get-hired-as-a-freelance/
Brain scientists are on a crusade to promote a crucial discovery: that your brain rewires itself throughout life and is characterized by what they call ‘plasticity’. Closely linked to this idea, is the notion that how you learn Read the full post »
Posted by mrsmoti on January 15, 2012
http://mrsmotivator.com/2012/01/15/how-apps-make-you-happy/
