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Leadership by Dave When I was in first grade, I used to always want to be the line leader in class. I would get fussy and sometimes even get into mischief when I wasn't the line leader. But my teacher Mrs. Flayton would say to me, as she...
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People Skills by Dave The times, they-are-a-changing. As a CEO, I've personally hired dozens of people in the last three years without looking at a resume (I use LinkedIn!). Social media has gone from non-existent to a vital part of most people's lives and careers in the last ten...
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Uncategorized by Dave This morning, I sent my 10 year old and 6 year old daughters off to their first day of fifth grade and first grade in school respectively. They were up at 6:30am, showered and dressed by 7, and ready for school by 7:30. They insisted...
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Marketing by Dave I just keynoted LinkedIn's Brand Connect Asia-Pacific '13 conference in beautiful Singapore, so I figured what better place to share my presentation from a LinkedIn conference than, well, LinkedIn! So here are the 7 simple rules I just shared about how to do amazing content...
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Failures by Dave Last week, Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson was fired after gossip tech blog Valleywag reported his homophobic, racist, misogynistic tweets he'd been tweeting for years. His tweets included phrases such as:-"In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of ni--ers....
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Failures by Dave "Leave me alone!"I said it to my boss at Radio Disney many years ago. I was a young, very high-performing salesperson, and he was my sales manager. Even though I was generating huge sales numbers, I was often late to work, or meetings, and every...