Whatever your favorite thing is, I bet that your favorite people mean more to you. People are more important than stuff. This is even true for 5 year-olds, who are notorious selfish about their stuff: Think about it: how many introverts do you know who are truly introverted—modern day hermits by choice? We have a [...]
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People: More Important than Stuff
February 22, 2010
Child’s Play: Success is Social, Silly!
February 15, 2010
Fact: you can do your job perfectly and still come up short in the “satisfying career” category—or even the “satisfying job” category. Why? Because doing your job well is only 1/3 of what it takes to be successful. Doing your job is table stakes for inclusion in that cluster of people known collectively as “employed.” [...]
Hotties: 11 Steps To Make Coworkers Take You Seriously
December 9, 2009
Recently, I asked my wife: how do attractive women react to the stares, glances, gawks, come-ons, remarks, nicknames, and other attention—desired or not—they receive at work? She said she had no idea. I think she was being modest. So after taking an informal poll of friends and clients, here’s my very unscientific answer to the [...]
A Very Bad LinkedIn Request
September 9, 2009
I’m all about success. I take no joy from others’ failures; me and Schadenfreude are not friends. Yet I also know what a powerful teacher failure can be. It’s one of the reasons I encourage people to Fail Spectacularly. It’s also why I share the email below, which was forwarded to me by its recipient, [...]
Do your work. Do it well. That comes first. But that shouldn’t be the only thing you do. Take a little time to build relationships, too.
7 Stages of Using Social Networking
February 18, 2009
Abstract: Stages of using social media
Interpersonal skills for introverts
November 3, 2008
* Track your experiences and convert them into stories that have beginnings, middles, ends… and emotional appeal.
* Track situations that make you uncomfortable and admit to yourself what it is about yourself that makes you uncomfortable. (Usually, when you blame someone else for your own discomfort, it’s because you refuse to admit something *about* yourself *to* yourself. Get over yourself.) Then identify what you’ll need to do to master those situations.
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