Hey there folks,
it’s been a while. I have been working pretty hard lately so there wasn’t that much time for writing. But I am currently on to building new things and I could certainly require some help with it. Are you a developer? Are you a designer? Are you a genius? If you can answer at least one by yes, please, go to: http://www.hipscreen.com and find the brief details. Let me hear about your skills and we might get into some business soon…
Moreover, I’ve been working with a new client from L.A. lately: FerrazziGreenlight Inc. If you haven’t heard of their CEO, Keith Ferrazzi before, then you’ve most certainly spent the last decade indoors (and miles away from Amazon). Make sure you grab the latest copy of the most incredible book I’ve had in my hands so far: Never Eat Alone. You can find detailed infos (and sample chapters, yes good stuff!) at: http://www.keithferrazzi.com/
The book is about building relationships (in a business sense) and how such can ultimately lead to your personal success. The website says it like this:
Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success?
The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.
In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him.
The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and one of Davos’ Global Leader for Tomorrow.
It’s an awesome read, you should check it out. I find it particularly interesting as I do now understand why some people get their latest Web 2.0 product into quality news coverage in the FT, BusinessWeek or maybe on TV - and others lurk around low rated blogs, trying to pitch it to a group of 20 people. That’s not gonna work. Networking is THE magic.
Lastly, I’ve some more good news: There is an online tool that you can check out (it’s free! totally free!) called “Life Coach”. Well, that’s a promising name, right. But it helps you quite nicely to identify your personal, most destructive behaviors and gives pretty good hints on how you can tackle that behavior. Are you good friends with procrastination? Do you “really” listen to what other people say about you?
Check out the free step-by-step tool at: http://www.keithferrazzi.com/lifecoachtool
Summing up: I like the trend of all that. We (read: IT geeks, bloggers, developers, …) should take on more opportunities to talk to successful managers and leaders out there to show them a what the world behind the screens (i.e. the internet world) looks like and how they can utilize the power (and magic) of it. Not talking mass commerce here, but I’d spent a little fortune to IM with Jack Welch or John Sculley. But most likely they don’t really know much of this side of the force, yet. That needs to be changed. There’s soooo much besides Google. And we could need some VC money, right?
Let me hear your thoughts, comments always welcome here!
Roman
