Book Recommendations
from Bret L. Simmons

From Bret's review: "In this book, Nayar tells the story of how he transformed an already successful company, HCLT, into one of the fastest growing IT service partners in the world. The personal story Nayar shares is compelling, insightful, and at times funny and brutally honest. Have your highlighter handy when you read this because it is packed full of wisdom and quotable passages."

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From Bret's review: "This is not Bob Sutton’s best book, but if you’ve never read one of his books this is the one to start with because Bob really summarizes the most important ideas and evidence that have appeared in all of his previous books, articles, and blogs. Those familiar with Bob’s work will recognize that there is not a whole lot of new stuff here, but that’s OK, because it’s still the best stuff you are going to find about how to be a good boss."

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Student Branding Blog: Are You A Career Commander?

July 19, 2010 by Bret L. Simmons · Filed under: Personal Branding

My most recent post at The Student Branding blog is entitled “Are You A Career Commander?“ It’s a very timely post for me because tonight a begin teaching a new class in Personal Branding to UNR undergraduate and MBA students in our College of Business.

This concept of being a career commander comes from Dan Schawbel’s book ME 2.0, which is a required reading for the class. A career commander is someone that assumes full personal responsibility and accountability for their career. In my experience, too few people of any age do this, so if YOU will do this you will immediately differentiate yourself from your unremarkable peers.

Mediocrity sucks.

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Tags: accountability, Personal Branding, responsibility
Posted in Personal Branding

2 Responses to “Student Branding Blog: Are You A Career Commander?”

Kate Grey says:

July 19, 2010 at 3:17 pm

I wanted a sneak preview of what we’ll begin studying tonight in MGT 691, so I Googled it. Guess I have my answer … or at least part of the answer. Looking forward to it.

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Bret L. Simmons Reply:
July 20th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Glad to have you in class, Kate! You will excel at personal branding. Thanks, Bret

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