Archive | December, 2008
Happy New Year
Happy New Year! With all the running around, the traffic, the madness at the stores, and the doom-and-gloom news this season, people lose track of how much is going well in their lives. Let’s take a moment to count our blessings and spread some happiness. Take some time to tell a stranger, like the guy [...]
Continue reading...Enthusiasm And Attitude - You Have A Choice
22. December 2008 by Craig Peters
Social Capital and enthusiasm are inextricably linked. No matter what kind of skills you have, your enthusiasm is going to make a difference. In an earlier post, I mentioned the importance of having a winner’s attitude, citing a post by management guru Tom Peters. Since that post, I’ve had numerous other conversations with people who [...]
Continue reading...Turning Social Skills Into Money
19. December 2008 by Craig Peters
In my last post, I talked about Carolyn Davis’ social skills. One of the reasons we hired her to cater our party was because she’s great with people; she’s got great social skills. One of my regular readers reminded me of something that I want to be clear about. Here at Social Capital Mentor, we don’t [...]
Continue reading...Carolyn Davis Catering - Success Is More Than Great Food
18. December 2008 by Craig Peters
We recently had a great party here at Taste Consulting. Our first Social Capital offering, The Power Lunch - A Modern Approach to the Business Lunch, is going to be ready in a couple weeks and we had a wrap party for it last week. When it was time to hire a caterer, of course we [...]
Continue reading...Practice Makes Habit
15. December 2008 by Mark Cornish
How do you develop Social Capital? The answer is easy, but like anything it takes a lot of hard work and practice. How much practice? Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers: The Story of Success, says that to become an expert at something you need 10,000 hours of practice. He found this to be true [...]
Continue reading...Horst Schulze’s Winner’s Attitude
12. December 2008 by Craig Peters
What kind of attitude does it take to thrive in a down economy? Management guru Tom Peters—no relation—and renowned hotelier Horst Schulze know. Check out Tom’s thoughts in a recent post on his site: “The requisite winner’s attitude is expressed by former Ritz-Carlton chief Horst Schulze, commenting on his decision to launch his new high-end hotel [...]
Continue reading...How To Ask For Help When You’re in a Hurry
9. December 2008 by Craig Peters
In my last post, I provided a couple points about making it easy for others to help you (my motorcycle battery had died and the scooter shop helped me out). In the example, I talked about the importance of not being rushed. Some of you might be thinking, Well, that would be nice, but sometimes I [...]
Continue reading...Make It Easy For Others To Help You
7. December 2008 by Craig Peters
Social capital isn’t complicated. At it’s core, it’s pretty basic. It’s about how you treat other people and how you are treated in return. Here’s an example. Two days ago I turned the key in my Triumph, and all I got was “click”. Dead battery. Fortunately, I was parked right in front of the San [...]
Continue reading...Three Simple Things to Look for When Hiring
5. December 2008 by Craig Peters
“Just hire the most qualified candidate.” I’ve told myself that many times. Sounds simple enough. However, as anyone in hiring knows, you soon realize that identifying the “best” candidate is much harder than it seems. If it was just about hard skills that you could put a metric on, that would be great. You wouldn’t [...]
Continue reading...Hard Skills Are Not Enough
2. December 2008 by Craig Peters
Mark’s post from yesterday is called I’m so stoked to be here. Now, I don’t want to turn this into a group hug, but I’m stoked, too. As I mentioned in my post Coaching, Mentoring, Lunch, and Business, on the Power Lunch Blog, there’s a lot for me to be excited about with this Social [...]
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31. December 2008 by Mark Cornish
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