Someone recently asked me to guess how many events I had spoken at in the last 3 years. I honestly can't remember … and I'm not saying that to try and impress you. The fact is, in the last three years, I have participated in easily more than a hundred corporate events of all types.
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NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of my new book Likeonomics all about Timing, the 2nd principle of Likeonomics. I hope you enjoy it! In 1855, a Scottish clergyman named James Gall had an idea that should have changed every map ever created, but didn’t. It was four years before Charles Darwin would
Continue reading »NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my new book Likeonomics all about Simplicity, the 4th principle of Likeonomics. I hope you enjoy it! Annetta Cheek is a 25-year veteran of the federal government who now runs a nonprofit called the Center for Plain Language. There has never been a more important time for the Center
Continue reading »NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of my new book Likeonomics all about Unselfishness, the 3rd principle of Likeonomics. I hope you enjoy it! The biggest clue that Jim Sinegal is not your ordinary CEO came in an article in The Seattle Times a few months before his retirement. The headline read: “Jim
Continue reading »NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my new book Likeonomics all about Relevance, the 2nd principle of Likeonomics. I hope you enjoy it! Sometimes making a big statement is the only way to break through the noise. We often describe things in terms of love and hate, but there is a third
Continue reading »NOTE: This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my new book Likeonomics. I hope you enjoy it! The truth is more important than the facts. -Frank Lloyd Wright Always tell the truth. That way, you don’t have to remember what you said. -Mark Twain Phil Donahue didn’t know it yet, but his days were
Continue reading »NOTE FROM ROHIT: Likeonomics is now AVAILABLE – if you read my previous post and decided to wait to buy it because I asked you to, thank you!! Please purchase your copy of Likeonomics RIGHT NOW! About four months ago I was sitting at home during an unseasonably warm evening in late January. It was
Continue reading »The big news all day today is going to be the Facebook IPO – and of course you would expect the media to care. UPDATE: Here is my interview with CBS News about the Facebook IPO … Lots of "virtual" money is going to be changing hands, there will be nonstop media coverage throughout the
Continue reading »I don't actually have a degree in Irish Poetry. I share this because recently at a few events I may have mistakenly mentioned that I did. See, I studied English literature at Emory University in the late 90s. While there, I took exactly two elective classes specifically on Irish literature and as most people who
Continue reading »A few days ago I got the first shipment of my new book Likeonomics to my house. Right now the book is sitting in front of me and I really want to ask each of you to go out and buy it – but I can't. In fact, it really helps me if you DO
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