by Phillip Stoller | Jun 29, 2015 | Coaching
Interesting factoid… I learned today that the QWERTY keyboard layout is about 150 years old. It’s design was based on spreading the most commonly used letters as far apart as possible to fix the tendency of old fashioned typewriters from jamming when two...
by Phillip Stoller | May 28, 2015 | Career Development
You know the saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” NOT TRUE! I believe this mindset can contribute to an unnecessarily feeling of powerlessness if you become convinced that you don’t know the “right people”....
by Phillip Stoller | May 18, 2015 | Career Development
I recently watched the series “The Men Who Built America.” Many of the titans of industry in the early 1900’s were ruthless and driven not only by profit, but the need to be the best. While this is not bad in and of itself, some accomplished this...
by Phillip Stoller | May 15, 2015 | Business Development
— Written by Andrew Benett In the course of writing The Talent Mandate, I spoke with a prominent business school professor who told me that no corporate function lags behind today so dramatically as talent. He sees improvements and innovations in every area except in...
by Phillip Stoller | May 11, 2015 | Inspiration
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who...