8 Good Reasons to Make Small Talk

by Nicholas Boothman | Sep 3, 2013 | Connect and Live Longer, connect in business, connect in friendship, Talking to Strangers

READING TIME: 90 SECONDS. WHAT is small talk? On the surface small talk is casual chitchat about nothing in particular. WHAT is the purpose of small talk? In spite of seeming to have little useful purpose, small talk is a bonding ritual and a strategy for quickly...

#1 success factor

by Nicholas Boothman | Aug 9, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, connect in friendship

Reading time: 100 seconds.Professor Thomas Harrell at the Stanford Business School spent 20 years examining Stanford MBAs looking for the success factor. He concluded the only identifiable predictor of success is something he called “social extroversion”...

2-steps for getting job interviews

by Nicholas Boothman | Jun 15, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, connect in friendship

Reading time: 3 minutes. Say you’re ready to make a move from your current work.  How do you approach finding your next job? According to MSNBC, job seekers who use the want ads are successful only 5 percent of the time, while the success rate jumps to two-thirds for...

Mindset Trumps Skillset – Big Time

by Nicholas Boothman | May 24, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, connect in friendship, slider

READING TIME: 70 SECONDS – What does it take to get, and keep, the job you want? Ninety-six percent of employers argue it’s not just about having the right skills for the position – it’s all about the right mindset. And now there’s statistical...

Your Zip Code Is More Influential Than Your Genetic Code

by Nicholas Boothman | Mar 20, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, connect in friendship, slider

READING TIME: 80 SECONDS – A new study by The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal, finds that during the reign of Michael Bloomberg, New Yorkers tacked an extra 10 years on to their life expectancy when compared to the rest of the nation. That means the...

There’s No Such Thing as Rejection: There is Only Selection

by Nicholas Boothman | Feb 14, 2013 | Blog, Boost, connect in business, connect in friendship, slider, Talking to Strangers

READING TIME: 90 SECONDS – As meet new people there’s one thing that can make a big difference for the worse – if you let it –  it’s the way you handle rejection. I had more than my share of rejection when I was growing up and I learned the...