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Maybe you’ve guessed by the title of my blog, but I don’t believe in the separation of personal and professional worlds. Not anymore, anyway. Here’s why, plus an alternative way of segregating your life that makes more sense and will help you be more successful—at work and at play. Why you can’t separate your personal and professional [...]

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The Social Media Revolution Imagine for a moment that it’s 1436. News has just arrived that a man named Gutenberg has created a machine that stamps out bibles. Cheap. Picture the conversation around you: “We can afford to own our own bibles!” “That’s nice… why would I want that, I don’t read!” “When I want [...]

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Why Authenticity is Hard

December 19, 2011

I received my first “complaint” about my last post about 10 minutes after posting it. From my partner. Who thought I might want to tone down “fuck it” to “screw it.” Maybe he’s right… maybe not. But the email made me realize just how difficult authenticity can be, because it turns out, I don’t speak [...]

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This deck includes the important points from my keynote presentation “People are Profersonal™.” People are Profersonal™ View more presentations from Jason Seiden   Jason Seiden is CEO of Ajax Workforce Marketing. Ajax amplifies brands by aligning employees’ online messaging.

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Well, if this doesn’t seal the deal on the idea of the profersonal (TM) world, I’m not sure what will: Researchers haveq found that Facebook’s facial recognition software could be used to identify people pretty easily… Easily enough that they call the technology a de facto Real ID. Translation? There is no hiding anymore. You [...]

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In the real world, for a long time, it was relatively easy to pretend that life could be broken down into “professional” and “personal,” and never the twain should meet. You went home and thought “family;” you went to work and thought “coworkers.” Life was like a McDLT, with the hot side hot and the [...]

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It’s old wisdom: surround yourself with people better than yourself. But how? How do you know that the people you’re putting around you are actually better, and not just richer/smarter/better looking? Let’s begin by acknowledging that I actually know how to do this. Here’s proof: Those three other people in the photo? ALL BETTER THAN [...]

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