10 Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
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I recently went to an Inspired Entrepreneur evening organised by the best selling author Nick Williams. Screw Work – Let’s Play author John Williams was speaking about how we can choose to see work as play if we follow what we are good at and enjoy. I caught up with him afterwards and asked him about [...]
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We have posted on this before simply because if consultancy or self employment is part of your portfolio career than being able to remember people’s names is a crucial prerequisite to successful networking. I was stimulated by a recent posting from Keith Ferrazzi in which he lists 5 tips for doing this. In summary:
make a [...]
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Nicholas Christakis gave a fascinating account of how our social networks can significantly affect our behaviour in a recent TED talk.
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Andy Lopata is always good value on networking tips. After all networking is his business! I liked these simple tips that he recorded earlier this year for the Business Channel.
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In our book we go on at considerable length about keeping up to date with new technology and we have promised you before that as we come across things that we have found useful we would pass them on to you. In that spirit go to Mashable:The social media guide where you will discover a [...]
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In our book we have our own definition of a necessary network/support system but it is always good to get others ideas on this. I came across this list by Tai Goodwin It overlaps quite a lot with ours but has some interesting extras so do have a look.
The Mentor: This is the person who [...]
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Andy was at the launch of our book at 1 Alfred Place last Thursday and has already published a great review of the book in his newsletter. We have an entire chapter on networking so were fascinated to see his blog last week when he posted the results of a competition through Twitter, Facebook and [...]
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