Since Linchpin was published six weeks ago, I’ve gotten some terrific email. Most of it is about individuals who used the ideas in the book to instigate a process of self-reinvention or validation. Some of the best mail, though, has come from managers and leaders who are using the book to inspire others.
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Helping spread the word
Carnegie apparently said, “Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors……Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.” Is there a typical large corporation working today that still believes this? Most organizations now have it backwards. The factory, the infrastructure, the systems, the patents, the process, the manual..
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Losing Andrew Carnegie
If I can sell you something without a sales call or expensive ad campaign, I can sell it cheaper. If you want to buy a business development relationship but you’re not willing to negotiate, do contracts and invest a lot of time, you’re going to get a lesser deal
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Open buying and open selling
Round one and two deadlines have past and round three deadlines are creeping up fast. You’re trying to decide whether you should apply in round three or wait until next year. I’ve been working on an upcoming MBA Podcaster show titled “Last Minute Applicants: How to Submit a Successful Late Round Three Application.” In the podcast, we’ll explore some of the different attitudes schools have toward round three as well as give advice on how to navigate the waters and complete your application on time
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Last Minute Applicants: To Be or Not To Be?
Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. It has nothing to do with winning a Nobel prize in physics or certain levels of schooling. It’s about using human insight and initiative to find original solutions that matter.
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal posted an article summarizing the findings from a Catalyst study that female MBAs are still not earning as much as their male counterparts, despite having similar work and education backgrounds. There were 9,000 respondents that participated in this study, all of whom had graduated from business school between 1996 and 2007. On average, women earned $4,600 less in their first job out of business school than men
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What’s Keeping Women MBAs from Earning Their Value?
Every once in a while, we get questions from our listeners asking for personal b-school advice. We try our best to answer them all, and sometimes we post the really good questions on our site. We recently received the following question from a listener and we thought it might be relevant for many others too.
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Question from a Listener re: Work Experience before B-School
If you’ve been receiving to our newsletters for a while, you’ve probably benefited already from all the great deals on GMAT test prep classes, admissions consultations and job search sites. If you misplaced some of those discount codes and want to finally take advantage of them, here is a complete list of all the discounts offered exclusively for the MBA Podcaster community
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DEALS and DISCOUNTS for MBA Applicants and Students
The lizard brain adores a deadline that slips, an item that doesn’t ship and most of all, busywork. These represent safety, because if you don’t challenge the status quo, you can’t be made fun of, can’t fail, can’t be laughed at. And so the resistance looks for ways to appear busy while not actually doing anything
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Modern procrastination
The Bologna Process has led to several systemic reforms in European higher education, including new degree structures, credit s…
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Transatlantic recognition issues: seeking new directions in the twenty-first century article by E. Stephen Hunt
If you’ve got an idea worth spreading, I hope you’ll consider this random assortment of rules. Like all rules, some are made to be broken, but still… You can name your idea anything you like, but a google-friendly name is always better than one that isn’t.
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Random rules for ideas worth spreading
The work you do when you spread the word or run an ad or invent a policy is likely aimed at one of these four groups. Strangers are customers to be, but not yet Critics are those that would speak ill of you, or need to be converted Friends are those that might have given permission, or even buy now and then Fans are members of your tribe, supporters and insiders You already know the truth: can’t please all these groups at once. And you also probably realize that each of us with an idea to spread has a knee jerk default, the one we lean to without thinking
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Strangers, Critics, Friends or Fans
Free is something you get, no matter what. A bonus is something you get as an add-on when you purchase something, or trade your attention. The purpose of free is to spread the word, alert the universe and generate interest.
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The difference between a bonus and free
[I'll be updating this post all day, just fyi, click through to see the latest update] You know by now that I haven't gone to any traditional media for the launch of my new book – no pitches to newspapers, magazines, or television. Instead, I went directly to my readers and the many intelligent voices online. I sent review copies by request to my readers – who were generous and creative in their reviews, and now we'll hear from the bloggers and other online denizens
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The 2.0 media tour
Business plans with too much detail, books with too much proof, politicians with too much granularity… it seems as though more data is a good thing, because data proves the case. In my experience, data crowds out faith.
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Too much data leads to not enough belief
Find a calling and then deliver. “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr. HT to Andy .
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Craftsmanship
When I was at MOMA last week, I saw a list of director and artist Tim Burton’s projects. Here’s the guy who’s responsible for some of the most breathtaking movies of his generation, and the real surprise is this: almost every year over the last thirty, he worked on one or more exciting projects that were never green lighted and produced.
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Unrealized projects
It’s easy to get trapped wondering what consumers want, and then being frustrated when you can’t get what you cook up in front of the people who want to buy it. It’s easy to forget what industry wants. Supermarkets don’t want unbranded fruits and vegetables, because handling is expensive and it’s hard to differentiate and charge extra.
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What the industry wants
This blog post was influenced by one of our listeners! We received a question asking: “How do you stay fit while working toward an MBA after all those demanding hours?” It’s definitely true that getting your MBA demands a lot of your time. That’s why time management is such an important skill to master. Since Mia and I are both currently in our MBA programs, we both gave our two cents: Mia’s response: “It’s really hard! I gained 17 pounds so far during the MBA program
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Staying Fit During the MBA Program
With tuition costs for MBA programs in the tens of thousands, if not reaching ten 10,000’s – (trick question), wouldn’t it be great if someone else paid for your MBA? If you don’t have a sugar daddy or mamma, maybe your employer has a tuition reimbursement program.
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Getting Your Employer to Fund Your MBA: Making The Argument