9 Mart 2015 Pazartesi

How to Turn IDEAS Into RESULTS Fast

Damien Wilpitz is like many of the consultants I work with. He’s smart, great at what he does, dedicated, and committed to getting results. And yet he faced a common challenge – how to attract more clients for his business. Within a short 8 week period Damien went from having a lot of IDEAS on […]


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5 Mart 2015 Perşembe

How to Make an Attractive City


“We can therefore understand all of the cardinal virtues by considering how each is embodied in the organization of an ideal city.”
- Socrates in The Republic, by Plato



Barcelona Innovation District


Six fundamental things a city needs to get right


place_exellence Humanity has not put up a single beautiful city since 1905, claims the narrator. The video below presents a manifesto about how to make attractive cities. The main point is that six things are required to make a city feel right. They are:




  1. Organised complexity, through a combination of order and variety.



  2. Visible life, where the life of the city is on display. The more life and people we see when we walk down a street like Las Ramblas in Barcelona, the more attractive it feels.



  3. Compact, with high density of people and the balanced moderating input of living close to each other, with lots of public spaces where we can hang out. Ideally squares, not more than 30 meters across, containment, not claustrophobia.



  4. Orientation and Mystery, by definition cities are huge, but the cities we love also have a lot of backstreets and small lanes, where we can feel cosy and get a bit lost.



  5. Scale, too tall buildings make cities dull. On average five floor buildings, with some purposeful landmark towers that are really special is the ideal.



  6. Make it local, there are many distinct styles of happiness and the modern sameness of cities is a problem. Cities need to have strong characters related to the local culture and settings. Find a style of architecture that make your location specific.



Why do we not make attractive cities in recent times? The video claims we have an intellectual confusion about beauty and a political lack of will to regulate opportunistic developers that puts profit before ambitious city planning regulations. The proof of success? It lies in visitor statistics.


I was recommended to watch the 15 minutes video by John Banka at Colliers in Warsaw, and I fully agree with him that this video is fascinating. It is produced by The School of Life.





How to Make an Attractive City


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4 Ways to Handle Buyer Reference Requests

A consultant was looking for help to attract more ideal clients and wanted to join my coaching program the other day. We got on the phone and had a conversation to decide whether the program would be the right fit for them. So if someone wants to ‘just call up a few of your clients’ […]


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1 Mart 2015 Pazar

Apple Watch will be Apples first Disruptive Innovation Since the iPad

Apple China Cover-Nov-2014 The Apple Watch made its fashion editorial debut on the cover of Vogue China’s November 2014 issue, featuring supermodel Liu Wen. Now in the March issue of Vogue´s American edition, the device will get a 12 page advertisement mainly based on images.


As if we had not known so before, this ad placement confirms that the Apple Watch will be more about Fashion than Function. In less than two weeks we will know the launch plan for the device.


Earlier this week, Apple issued invites for a media event on March 9, with the tagline “Spring Forward”, which likely refers to time, hence the Apple Watch is a good guess for the star of the show. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco beginning at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 9 and it will be broadcasted live on Apples home page.


Apple Watch lines We already know the Apple Watch will come in three distinct lines, with a variety of options within each. The Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition will be priced lower and higher in that order.


We also know the Apple Watch will be a touch device, with a new kind of haptic feedback and a digital crown, and apps that essentially run remotely from an iPhone. It is also thought to have a battery that can last approximately a day with normal, mixed used.


I think we can expect the Apple Watch to be a huge success, and the first disruptive innovation from Apple since the launch of the iPad five years ago. In true Apple style and like fine timepieces of the old times, the Apple Watch is designed to be admired while remaining unobtrusive.


Below is a video from Bloomberg TV with some interesting dialogue about what to expect.





Bloomberg TV Reporting on the Anticipated Launch of the Apple Watch


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26 Şubat 2015 Perşembe

How to Increase Your Consulting Fees By Communicating Greater Value

Below is my chapter from the bestselling book Creating Business Growth. Within 1 day of publication Creating Business Growth became an Amazon Bestseller in 8 countries. The fastest way to grow your business is to increase your prices. (<< Click to ReTweet This) This is hands down the most direct and effective way to grow […]


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23 Şubat 2015 Pazartesi

21 Productivity Tips for Consultants

Do you want to become more productive? Who doesn’t, right? The idea of getting more done in less time is what so many of us strive for. In fact, there’s a huge industry and thousands of books written on how to become more productive. There is a problem with all of this however… The problem […]


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19 Şubat 2015 Perşembe

Want a Successful Personal Consulting Brand? Start With These 2 Things

The whole conversation about branding is nothing new. It’s something that’s been around for a long time. Most of us will agree that a solid brand identity is something important for businesses to have, if they want to make a professional impression on their customers, employees, and basically anyone they come in contact with. Do […]


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