Posts Tagged Pinnacle

Be Careful Who You Let in Your Head

You learn interesting things when you’re stuck in bed with the flu watching daytime TV. For example: Did you know that Gretchen Bonaduce married Danny on their first date. You know Danny Bonaduce, right? Red-headed kid of “The Partridge Family” fame. That little boy grew up into a human trainwreck with a made-for-reality-show propensity for drug addiction, alcoholism, infidelity, steriod abuse and all other forms of debauchery. Gretchen stayed with him for 18 years before she finally called it quits. She seems like a reasonable person, but how does a sensible person marry someone on their first date and then endure nearly two decades of living hell? She says a psychic foretold it. She met Bonaduce when she was working for a radio station booking guests for the station’s different shows. She booked a psychic for Bonaduce’s show who read his fortune and told him that he would marry Gretchen. Within a month that prediction was made reality. I don’t believe in psychics. I think Jerry… Read more

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The Magic Numbers

As I write this I am on a flight headed home from the Fall 2009 meeting of the Pinnacle Society. Pinnacle is an honor society of 75 of the top producing recruiters in the country. Every meeting I attend leaves me inspired and challenged and this one was no exception. While my list of takeaways is long, there is one image in particular that will stay with me a long time. I facilitated a roundtable discussion on increasing personal production. The ideas that the group offered up ranged from the highly strategic to the very tactical. There were discussions of brand building, referral marketing, time management, technology tools and more. Carl Coco sat across from me and took it all in before he spoke. Now, if you haven’t met Carl let me tell you that he is a man that has absolute credibility with me. He has been a top producing recruiter for 40–that’s right, 40–years. He didn’t get into Pinnacle by stringing together a half dozen solid years in a hot economy. He has been putting up… Read more

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