C-Suite Network™

Michael Fertik

Your reputation defines how people see you and what they will do for you.  It determines whether your bank will lend you money to buy a house or car; whether your landlord will accept you as a tenant;  which employers will hire you and how much they will pay you. It can even affect your marriage prospects.

And in the coming Reputation Economy, it’s getting more powerful than ever.  Because today, thanks to rapid advances in digital technology, anyone access huge troves of information about you – your buying habits, your finances, your professional and personal networks, and even your physical whereabouts – at any time.  In a world where technology allows companies and individuals alike to not only gather all this data but also aggregate it and analyze it  with frightening speed, accuracy, and sophistication, our digital reputations are fast becoming our most valuable currency.

Here, Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation.com and one of Silicon Valley’s leading futurists will draw on the insider tools, insights, research, and secrets that has make Reputation.com the leading reputation management firm, to show how to capitalize on the trends the Reputation Economy will trigger to improve your professional, financial, and even social prospects.

Nicholas Carlson

When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo’s California headquarters. On them there was Mayer’s face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo’s campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room and, behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing?

MARISSA MAYER AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE YAHOO! by Nicholas Carlson is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Marissa Mayer’s controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon.

In August 2011 hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb took a long look at Yahoo and decided to go to war with its management and board of directors. Loeb then bought a 5% stake and began a shareholder activist campaign that would cost the jobs of three CEOs before he finally settled on Google’s golden girl Mayer to unlock the value lurking in the company. As Mayer began to remake Yahoo from a content company to a tech company, an internal civil war erupted.

In author Nicholas Carlson’s capable hands, this riveting book captures Mayer’s rise and Yahoo’s missteps as a dramatic illustration of what it takes to grab the brass ring in Silicon Valley. And it reveals whether it is possible for a big lumbering tech company to stay relevant in today’s rapidly changing business landscape.

Chris Westfall

With digital media, customers today have more ammunition than ever.  That’s why you’ve got to have a BulletProof Brand.  With insight from executive leaders at Cargill, Cisco, The Huffington Post and more, Chris Westfall provides the six pillars of a bulletproof brand.

“When your critics and your competition come at you with guns blazing, you need the best protection for your brand.”  – Jeffrey Hayzlett

Find out how to build engagement, increase loyalty and enrich the conversation with the people that matter most to your organization.  Here’s a message of operational excellence – because branding isn’t just a part of your business, it IS your business.  For C-Suite executives, you are your brand – you owe it to yourself and your customers to make sure you know what’s missing, before it bites you where it hurts the most.  BulletProof Branding – because you can’t afford to be unprotected.  See the video and learn more: http://bit.ly/bulletproofanimation

Dorie Clark

A step-by-step guide to reinventing you

Are you where you want to be professionally?

Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, the goal is clear: to build a career that thrives on your unique passions and talents. But to achieve this in today’s competitive job market, it’s almost certain that at some point you’ll need to reinvent yourself professionally. Consider this book your road map for the next phase of your career journey.

In Reinventing You, branding expert Dorie Clark provides a step-by-step guide to help you assess your unique strengths, develop a compelling personal brand, and ensure that others recognize the powerful contribution you can make.

Mixing personal stories with engaging interviews and examples from well-known personalities—Mark Zuckerberg, Al Gore, Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and others—Reinventing You shows how to think big about your professional goals, take control of your career, build a reputation that opens doors for you, and finally live the life you want.

Judy Robinett

“Other people have the answers, deals, money, access, power, and influence you need to get what you want in this world. To achieve any goal, you need other people to help you do it.” — JUDY ROBINETT

As anyone in business knows, strategic planning is critical to achieving long-term success. In How to Be a Power Connector, Power Connector Judy Robinett argues that strategic relationship planning should be your top priority.

When you combine your specific skills and talents with a clear, workable path for creating and managing your relationships, nothing will stop you from meeting your goals. With high-value connections, you’ll tap into a dynamic “power grid” of influence guaranteed to accelerate your personal and professional success.

Robinett uses her decades of experience connecting the world’s highest achievers with one another to help you build high-value relationships. She reveals all the secrets of her trade, including proven ways to:

  • – Find and enter the best network “ecosystem” to meet your goals
  • – Reach even the most unreachable people quickly and effectively
  • – Get anyone’s contact information within 30 seconds
  • – Create a “3-D connection” that adds value to multiple people at the same time
  • – Access key influencers through industry and community events
  • – Subtly seed conversation with information about interests and needs
  • – Use social media to your best advantage

 

Robinett has based her methods on solid research proving that social groups begin to break up when they become larger than 150 people, and that 50 members is the optimal size for group communication. As such, she has developed what she calls the “5+50+100” method: contact your top 5 connections daily, your Key 50 weekly, and your Vital 100 monthly. this is your power grid, and it will work wonders for your career.

Mildred Talabi

Successful job hunting isn’t about luck, chance, or hope… Successful job hunting is a SCIENCE!

In her ground-breaking book, The Science of Successful Job Hunting, Mildred Talabi draws on many years of careers experience and some of her best blog posts to bring you 35 chapters and over 180 pages of practical, easy-to-read content you can use in your job hunting.

You will discover:

  • 51 quick and easy ways to improve your CV and double your chances of hearing back from the employer;
  • How to make recruitment agencies your allies to accelerate your job hunt and boost your employment prospects;
  • How to confidently handle the 10 most common interview questions that most jobseekers fear;
  • 3 killer reasons to include Twitter and other social media platforms in your job hunt;

 

…and much, much more!

The Science of Successful Job Hunting is your bullet-proof blueprint for job hunting success.

Sylvie di Giusto

The Image of Leadership is the result of Sylvie di Giusto’s journey through two career paths: one in the field of human resources, the other one as a professional image consultant. The title reflects the reality that everyone can and should acknowledge, which is that true leadership manifests itself in ways that are both seen and unseen.

This book will take you step-by-step through the development of your professional imprint. The focus will be on all of those things that people perceive about you, with an emphasis on your appearance and your image.

By all means, it’s not a “How-to” book, because there simply is no “one-size-fits-all” formula for a look of leadership. Instead this book provides you with a deep understanding of the most important concepts to achieve your image of leadership. Because…

  • – YOU have to create your own professional imprint, which is true to your personality and which works for the duration of your long career.
  • – YOU have to appear confident, authentic, professional, and respectful to be perceived as a leader—no matter your height, weight, color, age or gender.
  • – YOU have to look like a leader long before you are one.
  • – YOU have only 7 seconds to create an imprint of leadership.
  • – YOU have to show people your leadership, every day, consistently.
  • – YOU —and only YOU— can choose to present yourself as a leader, or not.

 

This book is written to be entertaining for leaders at all levels. You’ll encounter hard data drawn from Sylvie’s research and she also shares countless stories from her 20 years of experience in corporations around the world, while she will prove her theories with people who are currently in the public eye. There is no other book that encourages you to learn about your image from famous politicians, CEO’s or pop stars at the same time.

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