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Are you one of those people who right about now starts thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? Maybe you want to get in shape? Maybe you want to find a new job? Perhaps you want to [...]

Lots of Bad Networking Advice Out There There is an enormous amount of content put out about the topic of networking each year. Whether it’s leveraging social media or strategies on how to [...]

Over the past few weeks I’ve received no less than 10 different emails pretty much saying the same thing: “Steve, you are important contact of mine and I realize that we are connected [...]

Aristotle suggested that friendship is the key to one’s happiness. However, friendship is not a given. We may think it is with tools like Facebook and Twitter allowing us to [...]

Last week I finished up a corporate training and a senior manager chimed in to get my thoughts about LinkedIn introductions. Specifically what I thought about receiving invitations to connect [...]

As some of you might be aware, I’ve recently acquired controlling interest in a software venture that I’ve been involved in for several years. Now as top banana, I’m flying [...]

Something big just occurred in your life…. Your spouse asked for a divorce. You learned your child has a drug problem. You found out your CFO has been embezzling from your company. You have [...]

Are you or someone you know a career crisis booty caller? Let’s see. You or they might be a career crisis booty caller if…. You start endorsing people in your LinkedIn that you [...]

I spoke at an event recently where one of the pieces of advice I gave was encouraging the audience to develop more diversity within their own networks. I suggested that that they find people with [...]

It’s Monday. A new week chock full of opportunities. Opportunities to connect that is. Mondays are the perfect time to assess who from your network you need to reach out to during the [...]