A frequent mistake that leaders, and managers of all kinds (including affiliate program managers), commit is failing to admit mistakes. It is a very destructive path to follow. The main reason being that it compromises your integrity, which is, actually, the most important characteristic for any leader. Addressing this problem in January 2010 at Affiliate Summit [...]

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Geno on August 22nd, 2010

I’ve blogged about my 3 R’s of affiliate program management success, and have also mentioned those 3 R’s in a number of my conference presentations. Then I had 2 more R’s borrowed from Brian Tracy’s post on The Two R’s of Top Leaders. Today I’d like to add even 2 more. In my opinion, a [...]

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You know who Gary Vaynerchuk (aka @GaryVee) is, don’t you? He’s the guy that is being predicted to become “bigger than Oprah” [source], and mostly due to his passion, drive, and authenticity. To me Gary is living proof of the fact that the trait approach has the right to live (in a slightly modified form, [...]

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You know who Gary Vaynerchuk (aka @GaryVee) is, don’t you? He’s the guy that is being predicted to become “bigger than Oprah” [source], and mostly due to his passion, drive, and authenticity. To me Gary is living proof of the fact that the trait approach has the right to live (in a slightly modified form, [...]

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Geno on January 31st, 2009

Today I took my wife and daughter for a museum trip. We went to the National Museum of the Marine Corps which is located by the USMC Base Quantico (a short drive away from our house). We love visiting museums in the area, but this one was a very different kind of museum. My daughter [...]

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Geno on January 17th, 2009

In one of the doctorate classes I am taking, we were discussing models for organizational change today. Peter Senge, a Stanford engineer, and MIT Ph.D. in social systems modeling, is famous for his Systems Approach to change. One of the things stressed in it was the building of the shared vision. The shared visions are [...]

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