Up Your Impact Quotes

“Social media channels and online discussion forums are quickly becoming hotbeds where people who share a common domain expertise can debate and discuss the latest trends in their area of shared interest. Participating in these groups also increases the odds of serendipity – coming across a key nugget of knowledge or information that has the potential to transform your career or your organization.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“In marketing terms, a commodity is an undifferentiated product that is just like its competitors. It isn’t usually very innovative, and offers a similar set of features and price point compared to competitive products. In other words, its defining characteristic is its “sameness” compared to other similar products. When a product becomes a commodity, the price that it commands in the marketplace tends to erode. People aren’t willing to pay extra for your product. They consider it and those of your competitors to be interchangeable, so no one company has an edge in sales.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“You may have heard this phrased before in a different way, namely “Who owns the problem?” Children often bring problems to parents, expecting them to solve these issues for them. They would learn more if they came up with several potential solutions on their own, and then brought them to you for a discussion of their pros and cons. Teaching kids to “own” their problems and help to solve them is an important parenting strategy, and an important element in teaching young people to be responsible, capable adults.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Simply put, a strategy is the “what,” while tactics represent the “how.” “A strategy is an idea… A conceptualization of how the goal could be achieved... A tactic is an action you take to execute the strategy,” is how the Brand Insights Blog compares the two concepts. Here’s the problem: The average executive is firmly rooted in a tactical mindset – focused upon doing (following orders), rather than thinking about what needs to be done and why.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Employers expect much more today, as they struggle to stay in business. They desperately need the creative energy and contributions of their creative workers in order to fuel new growth and to leverage new, emerging opportunities.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“37. Focus on contribution, not salary”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Once you have a clear idea of what your higher purpose is, invest some quality time to make a plan. How are you going to translate that purpose into goals and actions? Remember: A purpose without action is useless; it’s just a set of platitudes. In order to contribute at a higher level in your job and your other life roles, you need to figure out how to put your purpose in to action on a day-to-day basis.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“A more productive mindset is to compare your current version of yourself with your ideal future self and to set goals to help you bridge that gap.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“It helps you to identify gaps in your information: Your brain works visually, and it works by association. So when you start to visually record your ideas and knowledge, it enables you to more easily see where gaps exist in your information – such as additional facts or knowledge you need to gather, or new “white space” ideas that you couldn’t see before.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“and knowledge – a software tool that enables users to manipulate these assets with greater flexibility, and which helps you to see new connections and possibilities. One type of tool that meets these requirements very well is mind mapping software.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“In addition to reading Nancy Duarte’s book, Resonate, also consider her previous title, Slide:ology. I also recommend you read Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points, which describes a very simple, effective method of structured storytelling for crafting more”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“area (click here to view my list of the 10 top books on visual thinking).”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Some very smart people have devised ingenious ways of dividing up a notes page to get more out of it. One method reserves the main part of the page for your notes from the meeting. In the margin on the right side of the page, jot down any action items you need to follow up on. Create a similar, horizontal region at the bottom of the page, where you can jot down any ideas that occur to you. Bill Gates uses this method of note taking to ensure that no follow-ups or ideas fall through the cracks.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“What is a thought leader? Someone who looks at the same situation as everyone else and is able to extract some deeper insights from it, and who can communicate them in a memorable way. It’s someone who asks the important questions, notices and shares trends and points out things that we ought to be aware of or could learn from.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Simply this: Do an activity as well as you can do it right now AND keep searching for ways to do it better in the future. Nearly everything you do can be improved in some way. Commit to a habit of excellence in everything you do. In so doing, you will differentiate yourself and your work from that of your peers, for whom “good” is good enough.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“To zero in on your unique gifts and areas of contribution, invest an hour or two several times per year, analyzing your strengths, weaknesses, passions and interests.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“thought leader – someone who has a deeper understanding of the trends that are affecting it.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Different. Remarkable. Exceptional. That’s what gets attention and is successful today, in products and in people.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“What we want, what we need, what we must have are indispensable human beings. We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care... Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“We need to deliver a level of service that will delight them. In so doing, we’re setting in motion a chain of events in which our compensation will take care of itself. It will increase in proportion to the quality and quantity of our service to others.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“It’s something like the map makers around the time of Christopher Columbus, who drew dragons in the margins of maps to indicate bodies of water that were unexplored.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work

“Success has always been about contribution and service, about doing more than you’re paid to do, and outgrowing your current position and circumstances. It’s about having a system for creative problem solving and noticing new opportunities, which are all around us but aren’t usually obvious.”
― Chuck Frey, Up Your Impact: 52 Powerful Ideas to Get Noticed,Get Promoted & Become Indispensable at Work