mentorship

A Dunker’s Dream: From Small Town to Nike HQ – Success Isn’t Always a Straight Path

Blog, Awesome People, Communication, Growth Mindset, mentorship, personal branding, Personal Growth / Dennis Yu

https://youtu.be/Pw8kCXija9Y Imagine stepping into the heart of one of the world’s most iconic brands—Nike’s global headquarters. For Ben Ehlert, known as Bouncy Ben on Instagram, a professional dunker with a vertical jump just inches away from the world record, that dream became a reality. A small-town athlete who once aspired to be a professional basketball […]

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The Power of Mentorship: Bringing Back a Timeless Model for Success with Jeremy Slate

mentorship / Dennis Yu

Introduction For decades, I have been a strong advocate of mentorship. My success would not have been possible without my mentor, former CEO of American Airlines Al Casey, who took a chance on me and opened the first door on my path to success. Jeremy Ryan Slate and I hold similar views on this topic

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The Do’s and Don’ts of taking on a new job

advice, interview, learning, mentorship, Personal Growth / Dennis Yu

1) Become a highly-concerned observer 2) If your mouth is open, you are not learning 3) Challenge your assumptions 4) Listen to your peers 5) Help your boss raise their status 6) Create a business plan for every assignment 7) Direct your availability up, down, and sideways 8) Be aware of others’ feelings and goals

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Finding a Mentor is Hard – Jeremy Ryan Slate and I share our secrets of success

mentorship, Awesome People / Dennis Yu

I‘ve been praising the benefits of mentorship for decades. There’s no way I would be where I am today if it weren’t for my mentor, former CEO of American Airlines, Al Casey. He took a chance on me, which opened the first door and put me on my path to success. You know, the apprentice

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Leverage your weak connections for a network boost.

Things I wish I knew 20 years ago, which would have avoided me much suffering…

advice, Learn Do Teach, mentorship / Dennis Yu

Choose ONE niche serving ONE type of customer doing ONE thing really well, instead of doing many things for many types of people. The latter doesn’t scale and results in headaches. Even a technology business is still a people business first— you need relationship skills to sell, manage employees, and build partnerships. Develop EQ instead

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If you find yourself unhappy, ask yourself…

mentorship, Personal Growth / Dennis Yu

Are you making excuses or are you making progress? Are you blaming others (diminishing your power) or are you being accountable (taking charge)? You can make a million dollars or make a million excuses– but not both. My mentors taught me that success is a 50% mindset. And when you are super choosy about who

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Tell me if you’ve been here before…

mentorship, Relationships / Dennis Yu

Rent is due and you don’t have the money. You’re stressed out since you’ve drained your bank account and maxed out your credit cards, hoping that the big “deal” is coming through. Any day now, you promise others. But you’re conflicted inside since you can’t publicly say you’re on the brink of implosion. So you

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When your team member FAILS, guess whose fault it is?

Learn Do Teach, mentorship, team management / Dennis Yu

If they failed for not having enough skills, YOU should have trained them better. If they just don’t seem to get it, YOU should have put them in the right role. If they’re not motivated, YOU should have aligned with their goals and actively helped them get there. If they don’t treat your customers well,

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Partner with someone who can teach you.

advice, Client Management, mentorship / Dennis Yu

Someone just asked us what they should send to a potential client who is asking for case studies– but they have none. My answer: You partner with an agency that does. Trying to sell without authority is not only hard, but it sets you up for failure on something you’ve done before many times. Would

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I believe teaching is the highest professional responsibility we can have.

Entrepreneurship, Learn Do Teach, mentorship / Dennis Yu

Even if you are not a Karen Freberg, you can still teach others from right where you are, to lift where you stand. Formal educators must work with private sector professionals like us to bridge the training gap that students face when they graduate- so we can help them get great jobs and be awesome employees

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