Category Archives: Success

Reverse Scorpions

Blog, Influence, SuccessBy Bob Burg April 3, 2015 21 Comments

Many are familiar with the story about the scorpion who asked the frog if he could hitch a ride on his back in order to cross the lake. Assuring the skeptical frog that he wouldn’t sting him because “if I did, I would also drown” the frog relented and agreed. As you know, partway across…

You Can…Thrive – A Chat with Arianna Huffington

Blog, Influence, Interviews, SuccessBy Bob Burg March 27, 2015 14 Comments

In her 30-plus years in the U.S., Arianna Huffington reached the pinnacle of success; truly the embodiment of the American Dream. Wealthy, famous, powerful, respected and influential, and in huge amounts. In 2009, Forbes named her as the 12th Most Influential Woman in Media. Later, they ranked her 52nd Most Powerful Woman in the World.…

Turn The Ship Around – Intent-Based Leadership

Blog, Influence, SuccessBy Bob Burg March 15, 2015 10 Comments

It’s perhaps the least likely place you’d see a leader intentionally giving control over to those on his team. From ancient kingdoms to current despotic regimes; from the old industrial mills to many modern-day large corporations; and from athletic teams to the armed forces, leadership has typically been hierarchical and top-down. The person at the…

Making The Customer Feel…Special

Blog, Endless Referrals, Success, The Go-GiverBy Bob Burg March 8, 2015 4 Comments

Two of my least favorite activities are shopping for clothes and taking new headshot photos. The first nauseates me and the second…well, I simply don’t enjoy the process. This brings me to a recent experience. As a panelist at Michael Port and Amy Mead’s recent Heroic Public Speaking live event, I took advantage of the…

Toe Stubbing and Authenticity

Blog, Influence, SuccessBy Bob Burg February 15, 2015 14 Comments

Years ago I was in the Holy city of Jerusalem, Israel to visit and learn from a man whose books I’d been studying for several years. Rabbi Zelig Pliskin’s writings are a combination of ancient Biblical wisdom and modern day personal development. While some of his 20 books are geared to a Jewish readership, many…

The Thrivers

Blog, Success, The Go-GiverBy Bob Burg February 7, 2015 8 Comments

I’ve been studying David Neagle’s amazing book, The Millions Within and I think this passage from near the end of the book is one of the most terrific I’ve ever read: “Thrivers know that love, security, and self-esteem are available to them on the inside so they don’t have to go out and get them.…

The Advancing Woman – Kat Cole

Blog, Influence, Success, The Go-GiverBy Bob Burg January 17, 2015 20 Comments

In his classic, The Science of Getting Rich, written way back in 1910, Wallace D. Wattles explained a key principle for advancement in business, regardless of where one starts or how little money or connections they begin with. One advances… by advancing (providing value to) others: “And, in so far as your business consists in…

One Mom’s Very Persuasive Questions

Blog, Influence, SuccessBy Bob Burg January 2, 2015 5 Comments

One of the golden rules of human nature — as so perfectly illustrated by Dale Carnegie in his classic, How to Win Friends And Influence People — is that, “Ultimately, People do things for their reasons, not our reasons.” As such, in order to elicit a person to make a decision and take the action…

How You Can Become a Time…Multiplier

Blog, Interviews, SuccessBy Bob Burg December 26, 2014 2 Comments

He earned over $250,000 while in college selling magazine subscriptions during his summer breaks. In his 20’s he co-founded Nashville, Tennessee- based Southwestern Consulting. And, again he’s done something special. Yes, leave it to 30-something uber-successful Rory Vaden to take a subject like Time Management and turn it on its head. Actually, he equips even the…

Curing The Leadership Crisis

Blog, Book Reviews, Influence, Politics, SuccessBy Bob Burg December 11, 2014 20 Comments

Would the principles that make one an effective, successful and happy individual create those same results for a company, and for society as a whole? In this absolutely terrific book on leadership, the author says that yes, indeed they would. The following is from John A. Allison’s introduction to his recently-released, The Leadership Crisis And…

Category Archives: Success

<img alt="Bob Burg" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-40222" height="300" src="https://burg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Bob-Burg-sq.jpeg" width="300" />