Posts by Joe Schum
Episode 52: Tips And Tricks Are For Kids
What are you trying to accomplish by asking others for the answers? And when you get them, what do you do to implement them into your daily routine?
Read MoreEpisode 51: Speeding Wrecks Your Day
Speeding can be a very annoying and dangerous way to travel through the day. And not just behind the wheel.
Read MoreEpisode 50: The Jobpreneur
You know stuff! You’ve become an expert at where you are at this moment. So, invent your next role! Here’s how you get started…
Read MoreFinding Einstein
Einstein once said “I don’t need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.” Einstein was someone who spent time defining problems and then looking for solutions to them. He also said “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”…
Read MoreWhere Is William Wallace When You Need Him?
To set the stage, let’s think back to William Wallace (or as we know him: Mel Gibson in a kilt) screaming from horseback, face painted in the antique blue and white, holding a broadsword in the air, screaming: FREEDOM! There are a lot of ways this one can go. I’m going to share my personal…
Read MoreCurious Joe
Green Day. Linkin Park. Black Eyed Peas. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Miley Cyrus. Eminem. And even Barbra Streisand…in sheet music. These are the answers to a question recently posed to a group of clients I work with weekly. “What’s the first music you bought for yourself with your money?” And here’s the most interesting part…
Read MoreEpisode 49: Tommy Do You Hear Me?
Can you be a conversational wizard, not just a pinball wizard? In this episode it’s about how most of us behave in an exchange, and simple changes to make major shifts for you and your counterpoint…
Read MoreYou Want to Lead, Now What?
You want to be a manager! They want to promote you! Now what? Being a first-time leader, and a first-line leader, can be an exciting and scary place when one takes the next step in a corporate career setting. Many companies and organizations promote individual contributors internally, and once they arrive at their new role,…
Read MoreEpisode 48: Be The Lion
Nobody cops to liking role playing. And I’m here to say it’s absolutely the game changer you are missing out on in being better today than yesterday! What’s the real secret sauce behind role-playing???
Read MoreEpisode 47: Beware The Census Taker
Have you ever been engaged in a conversation where you are bombarded with open ended questions that are all about the person who’s asking them? For their benefit instead of yours? While important, there is something missing, something critical to great exchanges…
Read MoreEpisode 46: To Tell The Truth
True sales story. I received a knock on the door, I’m a WFH type, and I looked out the window to see who it was. Standing in my front yard was a uniformed, door-to-door sales professional…
Read MoreTyrants And Saints
CS Lewis once wrote: “How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.” That really stuck with me. And prompted me to consider all of the leaders in my life, including myself as a leader within, and to take inventory on how many were tyrants and how…
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