Secrets of Success in 3 Minutes and 8 Words by Richard St. John

March 17, 2009

in My Favorite TEDs

Not joking, not kidding, not a scam.

The Secrets of Success in 8 Words

Richard St. John’s marketing company, the St. John Group, with clients like Nortel and BlackBerry/Research in Motion is a major success and so is he. But he wanted to know why him?  So he spent more than a decade interviewing 500 people he defines as successful to find out the secrets of success. The resulting book, Spike’s Guide to Success: Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and RICH, has spawned a new avenue of success for St. John. His newest book is 8 to Be Great: The 8 Traits that Lead to Great Success.While the presentation is a little longer than 3 minutes total, it’ll go by too quickly. Every entrepreneur, business person and human being should listen to this one.

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Richard St. John March 17, 2009 at 6:39 am

Glad you liked my little talk! If you’re interested, there’s more on the 8 Success Principles at RichardStJohn.com. I like your tag-line “Using humor and passion to teach people how to prosper in the new economy.” Guess that’s what I do, too. All the best. Richard

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Dave Doolin April 23, 2009 at 10:01 am

Thanks for this link. I took some notes into my private wiki for later reflection.

Question for you, Mrs. Cooper: How would you categorize this blog?

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carolyn May 5, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Wow! You have no idea what your question started. I’ve been wrestling with your question since it was posted. This wasn’t intended to be a “blog” per se. It was my business site and communication site for my students and clients, however, I found myself drawn to that tagline “helping people prosper in the new economy.” And then I found Chris Gillebeau’s The Art of Non-Conformity blog and I’ve found my mission. Please check back around June 1st for the NEW site!

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