James Burgin - Craft your personal and professional brand

James Burgin talks about how to craft your personal and professional brand. This is episode 030 of the Ideas Architect Podcast. Our Topic: James Burgin James Burgin is an international brand expert and Managing Director of Brand Within. They offer an integrated approach to branding, marketing and business development with

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Atul Gawande : The Checklist Manifesto

I was talking with a colleague recently and she asked: “Given you’ve published over 650 blog posts what systems do you have in play to help you with these tasks?” Good question! Since time is always a limitation for all of us, being efficient, effective and productive is crucial for

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Manifesto Project - How to Write a Manifesto

Fulfil Your Purpose Why are you here? What are you devoting your life to? What’s your purpose in life? It seems that more than ever we’re wanting meaning in our lives. I think it’s a function of the rate of change – the more environmental hints change the more we

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Reading Books - My Passion!

My Milestone I’ve had an interesting response to my earlier blog post where I shared my milestone of having written and published 650 blog posts. This post is #658. One of the comments that surprised me most was by a colleague who didn’t know one other person who had even

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Experts Lunch

My Start as a Business Consultant To some extent, I began my career as a consultant or business coach by being paid in food. Essentially, people started to say, “Can I buy you lunch and pick your brain” or something like that. At first, I used to think this was

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Blind Strengths

Strengths, Weaknesses and Hidden Talents I’ve had another thought in the series I’ve been writing around working in your strengths, overcoming your weaknesses and exposing your hidden talents. In particular, we spoke about our hidden talents… the things we do that we don’t share with others. I think there’s another

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Wes Towers, Omnific Design

Wes Towers from Omnific Design talks about the new rules of website marketing for consultants. It’s how to use your website to generate leads. This is episode 029 of the Ideas Architect Podcast. Our Topic: Wes Towers Wes Towers has been running Omnific Design for over 10 years providing website

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Product Plan - Retirement Plan -Holiday

Previously, we wrote about The End of the Desk and we considered three massive workplace trends. Also, I’ve been writing a bit lately about working in your strengths, overcoming your weaknesses and exposing your hidden talents. When you bring all of this together you reach this basic and fundamental question:

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Workplace trends: the end of the desk

Three Workplace Trends In the not so recent past, there was a fundamental presumption that doing your best work happened as you sat at your desk in front of your computer. Offices over the past century were all based on this line of thinking. Today, this presumption no longer fits.

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Birthday Party Milestones

I noticed the other day that I was posting my 650th blog post. Today’s is #652. And, I thought that’s pretty cool, I should celebrate this in some way. And, what better way than to write about it and share what I think it means. My Blog Milestones Firstly, let’s

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