What Successful People Do Differently – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
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Survival strategies
Quiet Please…Life Underwriting Expert Witness Personal Branding Exercise in Progress
Only Your Brand Will Save You – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review
Starting today, think about how you can own your niche and build your audience. If you care about insuring yourself against hard times, the only true safety is in developing a personal brand that’s better known — and therefore more powerful — than that of your competitors, or even your employer.
John Locke – Lessons From a Expert
How I Sold a Million Books on Amazon in 5 Months
In case you missed the message, John Locke is a serial entrepreneur who loves to write. He also loves to earn a profit from his writing. He sees writing as a business and the selling of books as a marketing effort. And this is what he shares in this book.
John Locke Author: Secrets to Self-Publishing Success
I owned a life insurance company. I quit college with one week to go before graduation in order to sell insurance door-to-door on straight commission. By age 28 I was one of the top insurance sales people in the world. By age 35 I bought my own life insurance company and appointed nearly 7,000 agents in 34 states.
A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Guest Post by John Locke
Economic Recovery…Not
Economist’s View: The US Jobless Recovery: Assertive Management Meets the Double Hangover
Will someone (not an economist) please explain to me exactly what a jobless recovery is?
Bob MacDonald on Business – 8/14/11
Thought for Today – 7/31/11
Dani Rodrik’s weblog: The great divergence, the other way around
Dani Rodrik’s weblog: Will the divergence in growth result in eventual convergence in incomes?
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. HT to Mark Thoma at his blog Economist’s View.
I have no further comment on this topic because there is a lot to think about here.
Allstate Update – 7/21/11
Pacific Life Buys Manulife Retro – 7/21/11
Pacific Life buying reinsurance block from Manulife | Insurance & Financial Advisor I IFAwebnews.com
Another article on the deal.
Allstate Update – 7/20/11
Thought For Today – 7/9/11
A must read post from Tony Schwartz at the HBR Blog Network.
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