Welcome back to Episode #28 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how to identify your strengths, and how to leverage them best in all aspects of your life, including your daily interactions and communications with the world. This is inspired by Marcus Buckingham’s studies, StrengthFinder – check out my reviews when I read [...]
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Welcome back to Episode #26 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is a step-by-step guide on asking for a raise. How do you have that dreaded conversation with your boss or your manager at work and ask for a salary increase confidently and yet without compromising your relationship and work status? How do you [...]
What can you get from two opinionated minds with an insatiable desire to experiment and talk about the art of living well and the pursuit of the highest self in life? Aileen and I met in Blogworld 2010 in Las Vegas and our connection was instant. Aside from our friendship, we happen to possess an [...]
Seth Godin needs no introduction. A world class marketer, a best-selling author of a dozen books, an unmatched voice of influence, not to mention a sincerely genuine person on every interview and interaction. He is too good to be real and yet so real, it’s hard to believe. “Art, at least art as I define [...]
The most challenging part in returning home from an exhilarating event [insert your dream event here!] is what to do next? How do you take the sensory overload of information and inspiration and channel it to something useful, something original, something meaningful and valuable? How do you apply what you learned to your life? How [...]
What do you take home with you from a once in a lifetime experience? People’s faces? Smells and sounds of the place? Photographs you may have snapped? Goodies they may have given out at the event? Memories of great laughs and greater conversations yet? All of the above? Definitely all of the above plus one [...]
Entrepreneurship is like having children. I will explain. First of all, it is not for everyone – sorry if that shocks you on either side of the statement; the truth tends to do that to me too. The simple truth is that you must be made for them to survive and thrive. Much like having [...]
The most wonderful relationships can run their course; the greatest love affairs can go sour; the sweetest friendships can meet a bitter end and even the most invincible people may leave each other through death or divorce but I never saw a day that I would fall out of love with a company that was [...]
“We can do anything but we can’t do everything.” I used to believe I can do everything! By everything I mean my growing list of passions and aspirations from which responsibilities and commitments are naturally born. By doing I mean doing well, extremely well. It is either a job well done or a job not [...]
“Getting to Yes“ is quite possibly one of the best negotiation books you will ever read. First published in 1981, the authors founded the first Negotiation Program at Harvard Law School and have been successfully teaching their negotiation technique globally. I enrolled in a one-day course at my company. The course teaches the fundamentals of [...]
I met Sylvia Ann Hewitt at a leadership summit in California in May of 2006. She is a fantastic speaker with sharp presence. She was there to promote her book and also to speak to women managers and leaders about the topic of her book. I had a special invite to the event, and she [...]
In the eyes of Keith Ferrazzi, success – in our careers and in life – is all about relationships. Everything in our universe is related to everything else through a relationship. We must develop, establish and nurture our relationships in life. We live in a fast paced life and a connected age, where the day’s [...]
Oh what an exhausting year 2007 has been for me. A mentally draining and highly unsatisfying year in my career. What to do to turn things around? My best productivity shows in the form of books I read cover to cover, and the thousands of miles I fly each month to expand my social network. I [...]
This is a difficult and dull book to read. While I respect the advice of a senior director who suggested it to me, after months of making various casual and semi-serious attempts at digging into this, I give up! I perused through some of it, read a few chapters, and was mostly unable to fully [...]
True leadership is recognized universally, regardless of bipartisanship, differences in style and strategy and desired outcome. True leadership is recognized by everyone, and we would be hard pressed to find anyone that would not recognize it in Colin Powell. Oren Harari does a thorough job portraying that character in his book, ”Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell“. Harari [...]
