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Lessons Learned from The Grateful Dead – Rock Icons and Marketing Pioneers
(by Tony D'Amelio - @DamelioNetwork) -- The Grateful Dead were way ahead of their time in their approach to building business.
It's Not You - It's Me!
Very early in my career I learned perhaps my most important lesson about the speaking business. I was covering an event at New York City’s Plaza Hotel for a big Wall Street firm. The speaker I booked for the event was an energy expert - someone the meeting planner asked for – not someone my company represented.
David Meerman Scott -- Real-Time Comes to D’Amelio Network
(by Tony D'Amelio) -- 2014 begins with great news. David Meerman Scott has joined D’Amelio Network for speaker management.
Who Moved My Cheese Meets Nike – Thinking About New Year’s Resolutions
(by Tony D'Amelio) -- Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese and co-author of The One Minute Manager, was in New York before Christmas. We caught up for a chat and drinks at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. Spencer’s been a good friend for many years – someone I’ve turned to when I reached an important fork in the road and needed some advice on choosing the best path. As always, the conversation was lively and far reaching.
Listen to This: Geoff Colvin’s “Inside Business” Reports on the CBS Radio Network
GEOFF COLVIN is best known for the columns, articles and features he writes for Fortune magazine and Money.CNN online. But for 27 years millions of radio listeners have also known him for his 90-second "Inside Business" segments heard nationally on the CBS Radio Network.
Is hard work sabotaging your success?
"Why are certain people so incredibly great at what they do? Most of us think we know the answer – but we're most always wrong. If we're wrong on this crucial question, we have zero chance of getting significantly better at anything we care about." -- Geoff Colvin
Disruptive Change and the Future of Business - Geoff Colvin and Top Business Leaders in China for Fortune Global Forum
As a speaker, GEOFF COLVIN’s value to an audience is his relationship with the world’s top business leaders. From them he gathers insights into how the best companies are dealing with the challenges of 21st century business. His presentations are all the more valuable for it.
As A New Year Begins, DN Turns 2!
Happy New Year! It was January 3rd last year when I announced formation of my speaker management firm, the D’Amelio Network. It’s been an exciting time since then with so much to do – launching something from scratch is not for the faint of heart, what with the need to create systems and processes for the most basic needs – things that can easily be taken for granted. But that’s all done and the reward now is doing business by our own rules. The chief rule is to not have too many of them – we want to be easy to work with and stay focused on creating a great outcome.
