May 2, 2017 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, HR, Networking |
A NEW BOSS. I remember what a new boss meant in the Old Normal. The talk was often boy they are really smart and I am looking forward to learning from them. Today not so much. I have written in the past that an agency client relationship can be most perilous when the...
May 23, 2016 | Advertising Agencies, Best Way to Get a Job, Career Success, Career Tips |
The longer you stay in this business the greater the chances are that you are going to get fired. The algorithm of the workplace today. Sad but true. Don’t focus on the sad but anticipate and prepare for the true. You may not believe this but I only report what I...
Mar 6, 2016 | Career, Career Success, Career Tips |
I had a networking coffee with a person today who was in transition. He was much younger than me. He expressed his concern that he was getting too old to get a job. He still had kids in college. I told him that Ray Kroc started McDonald’s when he was 55....
Jan 21, 2016 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips |
I remember being in elementary school in downtown Toronto and my teachers would do a history lesson about how many people in the Middle Ages or before thought the world was flat. Many countries believed that their navy could fall off the end of the world. How could...
Aug 5, 2014 | Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips, Hank Blank, Networking |
I do because many people that I hardly know have given their friends to me. You get a call or an e mail from a former co-worker or a friend. “Hey buddy I just got let go. No way. That sucks. You are great. You will find a job soon. They will miss you and be sorry...
Apr 6, 2014 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips |
A young friend shared with me the other day that they had recently been promoted. Congrats I said. I shared her story with another friend and she asked me a simple question that made me reflect for a bit. “Does she have anyone to supervise?” Probably not I thought. ...
Apr 1, 2014 | Career, Career Advice, Career Planning, Career Success, Career Tips, Hank Blank |
I got a couple of emails recently. Both had graduated from the same school decades apart. One introduced to me a young man who had recently graduated and was looking for a job. A solid networking strategy is to reach out to your Alumni. I went to the University of...
Nov 16, 2013 | Account Executive, Advertising, Best Companies to Work For, Career, Career Success, Career Tips |
When I was growing up I loved watching movies about Shangri-La. Just the name evoked numerous senses and sensors. The word Shangri-La danced in my young ears. A place that was the epicenter of enchantment. I am still looking for Shangri-La. I have had a glimpse...
Feb 16, 2013 | Account Executive, Agency Training, Career, Career Success, Graduates, Guidance Offices, Hank Blank, Linkedin, Networking, Social Networking |
I live surrounded by young people. I have hired paid interns for ten years and often speak on campus colleges on networking and why young people shouldn’t try to get a job. That’s how I got this nice poster designed by Kyle Ready when I spoke at CBU in Riverside. I...
Dec 13, 2012 | Account Management, Advertising Agencies, Agency Evaluations, Agency Relationships, Agency Review Consultant, Agency Reviews, Agency Searches, Agency Training, Career Success, CMO, Digital Agencies, Hank Blank, New Business, New Business Development, New Business process. |
I have heard a lot of stories during my advertising career. When I did a review for a client a few years ago I remember a client telling me about a meeting they had with their agency in New York before they announced that they were doing a review. They had scheduled...
