Mini-Coopers and Oatmeal
Thanks to everyone who filled out the 360Reach survey, designed to help me figure out my personal brand. There are two questions that are particularly fun: If Carol Ross were a car, what type would she be, and why? If...
Postscript
I opened up my inbox one morning to find a email from "carol" with a subject line of "the another Carol Ross." I had a feeling it was one of the Carol Ross's I have found by googling myself last...
Question #3
We continue with Ilene's answers to specific questions: What would you have done differently in your life that would have made it better? What do you regret not doing during your life? What I would have done differently, always throws...
Work That You Are Meant to Do
People have been congratulating me on being photographed and quoted in U S News and World Report magazine. What strikes me is how this is a sign of doing work that I'm meant to do. That's different from work that...
How To Sleep Better At Night
Yesterday afternoon, I charted all the "to-do's" for my professional life onto Stephen Covey's quadrants: Urgent and Important Not Urgent and Important Urgent and Not Important Not Urgent and Not Important This was an assignment given to me by my...
Pet Peeves
I find it annoying when people send me email and they request a return receipt. My email program tells me when I click on the email that the sender has requested a return receipt--essentially proof that I've opened up the...
Question #2
This is the second in this series of specific questions that Ilene is answering. I thought you would enjoy seeing a picture of me with Ilene (on the right, looking down), taken last week at her home. If you click...
Likeability Factor
I've had a piece of paper in my "interesting but what to do with it?" pile for about six months. It's entitled, "An L-Factor Assessment" by Tim Sanders, author of the book, "The Likeability Factor." It's a quiz that one...