Comments on: The Cranky Middle Manager Show #143 Common Sense For Your Career- Bud Bilanich http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/12/the-cranky-middle-manager-show-143-common-sense-for-your-career-bud-bilanich/ Don\'t let the weasels get ya down... Tips for being a better manager and dealing with the insanity of the workplace Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wayne http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/12/the-cranky-middle-manager-show-143-common-sense-for-your-career-bud-bilanich/#comment-64443 Wayne Mon, 12 May 2008 21:30:47 +0000 http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/12/the-cranky-middle-manager-show-143-common-sense-for-your-career-bud-bilanich/#comment-64443 "You can put a stick in...." Thank you for that visual i can't get out of my head. Teresa you're absolutely right... authenticity is vital. Of course that requires conscious thought and attention to the subject which is what we were trying to do here and not enough people do. For those of you unfamiliar with M'Lady Teresa's work, she specializes in toxic workplaces, check out her website.... Thanks for writing in Teresa! “You can put a stick in….” Thank you for that visual i can’t get out of my head. Teresa you’re absolutely right… authenticity is vital. Of course that requires conscious thought and attention to the subject which is what we were trying to do here and not enough people do. For those of you unfamiliar with M’Lady Teresa’s work, she specializes in toxic workplaces, check out her website…. Thanks for writing in Teresa!

]]> By: Teresa Day http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/12/the-cranky-middle-manager-show-143-common-sense-for-your-career-bud-bilanich/#comment-64419 Teresa Day Mon, 12 May 2008 17:41:11 +0000 http://cmm.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/12/the-cranky-middle-manager-show-143-common-sense-for-your-career-bud-bilanich/#comment-64419 Interesting point about personal branding--but even more so than "brand yourself before someone else brands you" is the concept of actually BEING what you say you are. As a friend of mine often says, "you can jab a stick in a turd, but that don't make it a corndog." If you brand yourself as honest, dependable, transparent and forthcoming, it won't stick if you are really dishonest, undependable, dim and closed. Often there is a huge gap between who a person THINKS they are, and who they actually are. Make sure that's not the case for you! Teresa Day www.TeresaDay.com Interesting point about personal branding–but even more so than “brand yourself before someone else brands you” is the concept of actually BEING what you say you are. As a friend of mine often says, “you can jab a stick in a turd, but that don’t make it a corndog.” If you brand yourself as honest, dependable, transparent and forthcoming, it won’t stick if you are really dishonest, undependable, dim and closed.

Often there is a huge gap between who a person THINKS they are, and who they actually are. Make sure that’s not the case for you!

Teresa Day

http://www.TeresaDay.com

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