Asteroids and Opportunities

A few years ago, we hosted a "back to college" party, complete with foosball, beer pong, pop-a-shot, tacos at midnight, and a vintage Asteroids machine.  For those of you who don't remember Asteroids, it was a wildly popular arcade game in which...

Packaging Your Value

If your client wants to get from San Francisco to LA for a meeting on Tuesday, you can achieve their objective in many ways.  You can give them the phone number of a Limo Driver, buy them a first class ticket on United, rent them a car, drop them at the bus...

AARP and the Membership Economy

The AARP's social community just hit 1 million.  Amazing, right?  Most companies in Silicon Valley have written off senior citizens as too old for the digital revolution.  And yet, the AARP is building online community by providing value to their...

When they pay for Option 1 but want Option 3

One of my mentoring clients recently shared a "good news/bad news" situation with me.  Good News:  A new client, a VP at a great company, had signed off on Option 1  Bad News: In the kick off meeting, the CEO kept asking about objectives...

25 (MORE) Reasons to Call Your Mentor–Courtesy of Dan Weedin

My recent post on  "25 Reasons to Call Your Mentor" inspired my friend and fellow Master Mentor Dan Weedin to write 25 more.  There are only 35 of us globally, who have been trained and certified by Million Dollar Consultant(TM) Alan Weiss, and...