Comments on: STOP THE INSANITY! PERSONAL BRANDING IS NOTHING NEW! http://www.getperspectives.com/2009/07/personal-branding-is-nothing-new/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:11:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Shalini Bahl http://www.getperspectives.com/2009/07/personal-branding-is-nothing-new/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Shalini Bahl Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:18:46 +0000 http://www.getperspectives.com/?p=633#comment-650 Hurray!!! Someone finally said it - I am in full agreement with you about the way personal branding is being approached today. I find most posts superficial and like you suggested being promoted in a very cult-like manner with little to offer in terms of new insights. Yet, I do believe in the value of authentic personal branding coming from a place of providing focus to people to be in touch with their highest potential, find their unique positioning, and communicate effectively. While even this is not new, my perspective is that what is new and needed is more self awareness. And I wrote about that in my Blog: http://mindfulmarketers.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-missing-in-current-discussions.html The other angle with which I approach personal branding is based on authenticity and this is a fairly new discussion in management. And that is more about living in alignment with our purpose: http://mindfulmarketers.blogspot.com/2009/07/are-you-authentic-entrepreneur.html So, while I don't like the way the current discussion is dominated by the narrow approach to personal branding, I do believe it has value when used as a way to get people to be the best they can be. Thank you for providing another lens to this discussion :) Hurray!!! Someone finally said it – I am in full agreement with you about the way personal branding is being approached today. I find most posts superficial and like you suggested being promoted in a very cult-like manner with little to offer in terms of new insights.

Yet, I do believe in the value of authentic personal branding coming from a place of providing focus to people to be in touch with their highest potential, find their unique positioning, and communicate effectively. While even this is not new, my perspective is that what is new and needed is more self awareness. And I wrote about that in my Blog:
http://mindfulmarketers.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-missing-in-current-discussions.html

The other angle with which I approach personal branding is based on authenticity and this is a fairly new discussion in management. And that is more about living in alignment with our purpose:
http://mindfulmarketers.blogspot.com/2009/07/are-you-authentic-entrepreneur.html

So, while I don’t like the way the current discussion is dominated by the narrow approach to personal branding, I do believe it has value when used as a way to get people to be the best they can be.

Thank you for providing another lens to this discussion :)

]]> By: Digital Biographer™ » Posts about Personal Branding as of July 17, 2009 http://www.getperspectives.com/2009/07/personal-branding-is-nothing-new/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Digital Biographer™ » Posts about Personal Branding as of July 17, 2009 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:24:02 +0000 http://www.getperspectives.com/?p=633#comment-463 [...] I emailed my boss-to-be Matt Goyer to ask if there was any reading I should do before I started. PERSONAL BRANDING IS NOTHING NEW - getperspectives.com 07/16/2009 by Jason Miletsky The hype over personal branding has gotten way [...] [...] I emailed my boss-to-be Matt Goyer to ask if there was any reading I should do before I started. PERSONAL BRANDING IS NOTHING NEW – getperspectives.com 07/16/2009 by Jason Miletsky The hype over personal branding has gotten way [...]

]]> By: Lisa Lomas http://www.getperspectives.com/2009/07/personal-branding-is-nothing-new/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Lisa Lomas Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:02:38 +0000 http://www.getperspectives.com/?p=633#comment-462 I believe there is so much hype around Social media, there are however some that really stand out. Like any market, their is quality and their are some that think quantity and any product will do. I think its a revolution that has just begun and there will be some very big sorting going on. Quality will remain. I believe there is so much hype around Social media, there are however some that really stand out. Like any market, their is quality and their are some that think quantity and any product will do. I think its a revolution that has just begun and there will be some very big sorting going on. Quality will remain.

]]> By: Dave http://www.getperspectives.com/2009/07/personal-branding-is-nothing-new/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Dave Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:55:17 +0000 http://www.getperspectives.com/?p=633#comment-461 Amen. Personal branding is probably just a new concept to this certain young crop of professionals who happen to be looking for jobs and are accustomed to everyone looking when they yell, "Hey, look at me!" In defense, when any generation discovers something for the first time they think they invented it. Amen.

Personal branding is probably just a new concept to this certain young crop of professionals who happen to be looking for jobs and are accustomed to everyone looking when they yell, “Hey, look at me!”

In defense, when any generation discovers something for the first time they think they invented it.

]]> By: Rod Alley http://www.getperspectives.com/2009/07/personal-branding-is-nothing-new/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Rod Alley Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:39:42 +0000 http://www.getperspectives.com/?p=633#comment-460 Thank you for saying it! for all the hype, personal branding "experts" are starting to look more like fanatics than true experts Thank you for saying it! for all the hype, personal branding “experts” are starting to look more like fanatics than true experts

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