WIN Your PITCH with this Tip from KOBE Bryant’s Coach

A couple of posts back I shared Coach K’s ( Mike Krzyzewski) standards that he used when he coached Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.

In the below 5:03 video clip titled Mike Krzyzewski, Coach K, Talks About Kobe Bryant and Compares Him to Michael Jordan, Krzyzewski shares another idea that can help pitch teams gain an edge against their competition.

The key part of the clip I want you to watch is (from the 42 second – 1:13 section).

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Job INTERVIEW? Do you KNOW how to NAIL the CRUCIAL first 7 minutes

You may have a job interview coming up. In today’s environment you will often have a larger number of competitors for a position that previously. That’s why you need to particularly ‘own’ the first seven minutes of the interview process.

My view is this. Interviewers will decide to hire you, or not (even though they won’t admit this) based on the the impressions you leave in the seven minutes (approximately) – starting from the time you enter the office where the interview will take place and from impressions you leave in the following sequential steps:

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