This summer I taught personal branding to two separate classes. One was 12 weeks online for Executive MBA students and the other 6 weeks on campus for undergraduate students. In addition to writing lots of blogs and tweets, both groups had the challenging assignment of creating a branding video with very little direction and even […]
In the spring of 2016, I taught social business and personal branding to about 45 MBA students at The University of Nevada. My students learn how difficult it is to take responsibility for an online presence by trying to create relevant content that matters to some target audience or market. Each student created about 25 […]
You wouldn’t have to worry about making excuses for failing to achieve what you said was your goal. You wouldn’t have to blame others for failures you could have avoided. You wouldn’t have to count on others shirking their responsibility in order to give you what you think you are entitled too even though your […]
Last May, I recognized the best videos created by my MBA class in personal branding and my undergraduate class in social business. Last night was the first night of video presentations in my current undergraduate class in social business, and we got off to a very impressive start. The thirteen students that presented their video […]
Leadership, Narcissism, And Parental Income
An exceptional new study on the link between narcissism and leadership was recently published in one of our top academic journals. The study of 229 recent graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, all lieutenants and captains at the time of the study, showed a strong negative relationship between narcissism, leadership behaviors, […]
Responsible Vs. Foolish Freedom
One of the highest forms of responsibility is the responsibility to be free. One of the highest forms of freedom is the freedom to be responsible…Yet if we examine our lives closely, most of us will find that we are slaves to something that defines our zone of comfort – whether it be the approval of […]
