A Heart Based Business: Humanizing Entrepreneurs with Leonard Kim and Terri Levine
A Heart Based Business: Humanizing Entrepreneurs with Leonard Kim and Terri Levine
Behind high level companies are faces and names of people who built it who wouldn’t be recognized with proper personal and corporate branding. Once these people are seen as thought leaders in their industry, they start to get attention and recognition. Some business owners fail at this. Leonard Kim helps these people set their career on all sides possible to elevate their brand and make them look human instead of looking perfect so that they can connect and build working relationships.
The technology of the internet is really amazing in ways of making people connect to each other. Business owners and entrepreneurs can reach clients at the click of a button. But this makes connections feel mechanical in a sense, which is not bad, but there is always that choice to be a heart based business. When you give value and knowledge to your clients, the next decision they make is to work with you. Terri Levine shares the steps of putting heart into your business.
Serial Entrepreneurs Share Their Words of Wisdom from Inc
From Inc.com: We asked the serial entrepreneurs on our list to name the most important thing they had learned as entrepreneurs. Click here for Inc’s favorites.
50 Famous People Who Failed Before Becoming Successful
In my book, How to Reinvent Your Career, I write about how some things we see as failures may actually lead us to something better. The following is a list of 50 famous people compiled by Katrina Solomon from onlinecollege.org who failed before they became successes:
- Henry Ford
- R. H. Macy
- F. W. Woolworth
- Soichiro Honda
- Akio Morita (Sony)
- Bill Gates
- Harland David Sanders (KFC)
- Walt Disney
- Albert Einstein
- Charles Darwin
- Robert Goddard (rocket researcher)
- Isaac Newton
- Socrates
- Robert Sternberg (President of APA)
- Thomas Edison
- Orville and Wilbur Wright
- Winston Churchill
- Abraham Lincoln
- Oprah Winfrey
- Harry S. Truman
- Dick Cheney
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Fred Astaire
- Sidney Poitier
- Jeanne Moreau (actress)
- Charlie Chaplin
- Lucille Ball
- Harrison Ford
- Marilyn Monroe
- Oliver Stone
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Emily Dickinson
- Theodore Seuss Giesel (Dr. Seuss)
- Charles Schulz
- Steven Spielberg
- Stephen King
- Zane Grey
- J. K. Rowling
- Monet
- Jack London
- Louisa May Alcott
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Elvis Presley
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Igor Stravinsky
- The Beatles
- Michael Jordan
- Stan Smith
- Babe Ruth
- Tom Landry
Create Your Own Job
What is great about YouTube is you can find creative videos. There is a short advertisement message at the end of most of them . . . however, videos like this one have an important message for people who are thinking about changing jobs, recreating themselves, and starting over in their career.
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