Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership?

Mar172014

Guest Post: Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership? By: Vicki Rackner MD Imagine you’re a thought leader opening an email from one of your best clients. It includes a link to an article published in a national trade journal along with the note, “Are any of these ideas worth considering?” You click on the link, and the article offers 7 tips to achieve the precise outcome that you and your client are working towards. You...

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 62 Who Is Quoting You? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 62

Mar122014

This week’s reflection point: If you look around you it’s hard not to notice the quoting phenomena. What I mean by this is the ever-growing trend of people quoting others. Whether reading a book, watching an interview, or visiting the various social media platforms, it’s ubiquitous. What makes it even more popular is our peer-pressure to “like” others’ postings. We have created a “like” society. For example, people like to shop where others “like” to shop, stay at hotels where...

Things I’ve Realized or Learned Recently

Mar112014

Rather than instantiating (making the complex simple), most individuals I meet make the simple complex. Life and business happen each day, which have the tendency to mess up the best of priorities and productivity tools. With the best of technologies available, the airlines still can’t figure out how to notify the ground team to be ready at the gate when the plane arrives early. Most I meet have exceptional ideas, experiences and wisdom to share. If they could only articulate...

What Do I Mean By “Content?”

Mar102014

Content creation is the lifeblood of your organization and the way you manifest new ideas. Here is what falls under the category of content when I discuss with my clients: Articles Position Papers Special Reports Checklists Newsletters Booklets eBooks Books Video Book Audio Recordings Video Recordings Workshops Online Repository Online Learning Online Community Web Copy Blog What are your thoughts on content creation and are there any other categories you would include? © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 61 Best Practices Are Subjective Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 61

Mar52014

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: I just chatted with one of my clients when he asked me to reflect on a recent presentation we both attended. It was obvious that his key take-aways were different than mine. I then asked him to...

Action After Attending An Event

Mar42014

Here are the top four steps I implement after attending developmental experiences: Review my notes within 72 hours of the event. Summarize them into my Evernote system for easy future search and retrieval. Pick out the top three that represent my highest passion and potential success for my clients. Have the discipline to take action and execute. How about you? What do you find to be the most effective ways to make sure the developmental experiences you attend reap their...

Presenting at NSA Winter Conference

Feb282014

On my way today to Tampa Florida to present at the NSA winter conference tomorrow. Topic I will be discussing: Million Dollar Web Presence. This is going to be absolutely great!

Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 60 How Prepared Are You? Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue No. 60

Feb262014

Raising the Barr is a weekly memo, which is always pithy, powerful and succinct. It focuses on innovative ideas by maximizing your life and business while leveraging strategy, content, technology and the web, to help you transform the success. This week’s reflection point: While attending Alan Weiss’s thought leadership symposium several months ago and hearing Dan Pink’s presentation, I was astounded by Dan’s ability to memorize key elements of each of the 20 global consultants in attendance. He memorized our...

New Web Presence Launch – Merge Gupta-Sunderji

Feb252014

I am excited to share the recent launch of the new web presence for Merge Gupta-Sunderji, Leadership Expert and Founder of Turning Managers Into Leaders. She gives people specific and practical tools to help them achieve leadership and communication success. Check out this great site, showcasing Merge’s expertise, track record of success and wisdom: © Chad Barr 2014. All Rights Reserved.

Speakers Beware of Scam

Feb252014

Here is an email I received from one of our clients to today: Hi Chad, I have had correspondence with Bishop Desmond Inglesby of the Church of England, South Africa, but it now appears that it is a scam. He invited me to speak at a conference in March in Cape Town, South Africa. It was supposed to be their annual church conference. It sounded perfect with about 1,500 people in attendance. They sent me a formal contract which I...