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What are you known for? I’m the guy with the lunchbox This happened again yesterday and I love it! Someone I’ve never seen before shouted out to me “Hey, I like your lunchbox!” Yes, that’s…

My first semester as a full-time marketing professor, a friend (an attorney) invited me to a business talk in his world—architects, builders, contractors. The topic? Marketing. Ten minutes in, I was restless. This is Marketing…

To this day, I have clients and students seeking the fastest path to who knows where. As long as they get somewhere, anywhere, as quickly as possible. With little regard for the opportunities they might…

Think about a moment when multiple paths were open to you, each offering possible success in a different way. Which path tempted you to move faster… but asked you to give up something important? Do…

On On Tuesday, we talked about opportunity knocking. Here’s the part we often leave out. In the real world, opportunity rarely arrives with a spotlight or a perfect script.It usually shows up as initiative. Sometimes…

Did you hear that knock on the door? It might be opportunity knocking.You should probably get up and check. Go on, don’t just sit there. Even if it’s not opportunity, at least you’ll get a…

On Tuesday, we looked at Lora’s story of survival as the origin story that she can proudly claim. After all, she’s the one who lived it. Today, we translate that story into something Lora can…

One of the greatest privileges of my work is helping people uncover the story inside the résumé. Not just what they’ve done, but how they became who they are. Why they deserve the good things…

On Tuesday, I asked a quiet but uncomfortable question:Are you hiding? Not because you’re weak.Not because you don’t know what you’re capable of.But because somewhere along the way hiding felt safer. If Tuesday’s post stirred…

Are you hiding? Do you want to be hiding? There are a couple of origin stories on my mind right now. You know about them,  you’ve seen them in the movies… well, sort of. The…