Author Archive for Donnie Bryant
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Edging Out The Competition
What can you do to outmaneuver your ever-expanding number of competitors? How will you establish your uniqueness in the market? What makes you more attractive to your chosen audience? How can you build on that foundation?
Is Recession Bad? It Depends On You
Defensive strategies come instinctively. But you can’t advance and retreat simultaneously.
Devious Plans for World Domination
While world domination is not in my schedule, ask your favorite conspiracy theorist and he’ll be more than happy to describe who is plotting a global takeover and exactly how they plan to do it with minute detail.
Psychology of Resistance
“People don’t like to be sold but they love to buy.” That’s the marketer’s challenge. People want to buy things to satisfy their desires and remove unpleasant aspects of their lives. They just don’t want to feel like they’re being “sold.”
Think Different — About Marketing
Apple didn’t invent music and stick it in an iPod. It just made it easier to access and carry around the tunes you love. Apple didn’t have to convince anybody that it’s better to carry one device than several.
Teach A Man To Fish
Great teachers obtain the exact response they’re trying to elicit: changed, improved lives.
Storytelling Reconsidered
There are crucial areas to illustrate when telling a story about your business or personal brand.
The Book of Ecclesiates: A Guide for Business and Living
There’s an African proverb that says “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
Strategic Selling for Startups
One of the biggest concepts all businesses have to get a good grasp on is strategic thinking. The problem is, most businesses are tactical thinkers; they can only see what’s right in front of them. They rarely move toward any long-term strategic goals, if they’ve even established any.
Business Coaches: You Should Be Embarrassed
The appeal of coaching as a profession is manifold. Coaches help others achieve new levels of success in life or business. They work on their own terms. That’s how it plays out in theory, anyway.
The Truth Hurts: Getting The Feedback You Need
Getting feedback from managers is often one of the most effective ways to improve your work performance and improve your ability to deliver top-quality value. Feedback is how we learn.
Learning Leadership from Aristotle
Your job as a leader is to persuade people to do great things in uncertain contexts, using only one tool: your words.
Africa Takes Its Turn (Video)
This wave of entrepreneurship is building the foundations for the knowledge revolution in our continent and the next few years will herald the consolidation. Just as the industrial revolution was a quintessential period of innovation in transportation, production, energy and communication, the next quarter century will surely give Africa its turn. We can alter the human society, culturally and economically, as our abundant resources converge with technologically strong African knowledge base.
When Experience Is Not on Your Side
Younger people tend to be the quickest to adapt. Technology that more “mature” business people are just now learning has often been used by younger individuals for quite some time.
How Enchanting Is Your Business?
Enter entrepreneur and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki is sort of a magician. His specialty is teaching individuals and businesses to become enchanting.
Creating Your Professional Aura
That’s true of social networking as well. If your interactions with your fans, followers, friends, etc., are primarily social, as opposed to professional, you could be hurting your chances of turning these connections into customers.
Unleash Your Business Beast
Are you an Enterprising Crocodile? A Strategic Lion? Discover surprising insights from this business parable. Learn to leverage your natural strengths to survive your professional “Serengeti.”
Everything to Gain: Gang Member to Multimillionaire
Ryan Blair is a fighter: that got him into trouble sometimes, including trips to the juvenile detention center. But as an entrepreneur, that fighting spirit is a major driving force behind his success.
Charisma: Do You Have It?
Traditionally, charisma is viewed as an inherent quality; you either have it or you don’t. As a manager, you have to motivate people to take action: can you present your strategy in a compelling way in order to inspire others.
Why Winners Win
“Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others? It turns out that even very brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail.
