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Bud Bilanich, Ed.D., The Common Sense Guy

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Bud Bilanich, Ed.D. is a management consultant, executive coach, motivational speaker, bestselling author and influential blogger. He has worked with executives in a variety of companies and industries in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.



Bud earned his EdD (Doctor of Education) with a concentration in Adult Education and Organization Behavior and Intervention from Harvard University; a MA in Organizational and Interpersonal Communication from the University of Colorado and a BS in Human Development from Penn State. Dr. Bilanich may be Harvard educated but has a no nonsense approach to his work that goes back to his roots in the steel country of Western Pennsylvania.




Posts by Bud Bilanich, Ed.D., The Common Sense Guy:

  • The Power Of Persistence
    • February 15th, 2013
    So I’m driving up Interstate 4 from Tampa to Orlando listening to the rock and roll station. One song ends and the disc jockey says something like, “The next song is from a performer who, back in 1967, auditioned [...]




  • A Final Bit of Career Success Advice From the Super Bowl
    • February 12th, 2013
    The Super Bowl happened over a week ago – and what a weird one it was. The Ravens were way ahead and looked like they were going to run away with it. Then the power went out in the stadium.  It took about 35 minutes [...]




  • Personal Branding Lessons From The Super Bowl
    • January 31st, 2013
    It’s Super Bowl week, let the hype begin. Over 100 million people are likely to watch the Ravens and 49ers battle it out on Sunday.  This year’s game is interesting because the head coaches of the opposing teams [...]




  • Career Success Lessons From The Super Bowl Coaches
    • January 30th, 2013
    The Super Bowl is only a few days away. Today I want to provide some career success advice that I picked up from the Harbaugh brothers, the opposing head coaches in Sunday’s game. Jim coaches the 49ers.  In the 10th [...]




  • Forever Young
    • January 24th, 2013
    I’m one of the 500 or so people in the USA who go to the movies to see documentaries. I saw a very interesting documentary the other day, Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel. It’s life the story of Diana Vreeland, [...]




  • 2013 Success Rule #1: Get Clear
    • January 5th, 2013
    I am a big believer in the power of clarity. I always tell my coaching clients that they need to clarify the purpose and direction for their lives and careers.  Tweet 1 in my career advice book Success Tweets: 140 Bits [...]




  • Conquer Your Fears in 2013
    • December 25th, 2012
    The week of December 10 was an emotional roller coaster for me. I watched the 12/12/12 concert on Wednesday evening and was heartened to see so many celebrities giving their time to help people who really suffered as [...]




  • Career Success Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff Discussions
    • December 5th, 2012
    Have you been following the fiscal cliff discussions? President Obama presented his plan.  The other side reacted.  Mitch McConnell said he laughed when he saw it.  John Boehner said both sides are “nowhere” when [...]




  • Be Gracious – Especially When Things Don’t Work Out as You Hoped
    • November 19th, 2012
    It’s a week after the election and Mitt Romney continues to put his foot in his mouth. In a call with big donors to his campaign the other day he said, “The president’s campaign, if you will, focused on [...]




  • What the Petraeus Affair Teaches Us About Career Success
    • November 13th, 2012
    Last Friday, the November 12 issue of Newsweek showed up in our mail. It was called “The Heroes Issue.”  One of the featured stories was “General Petraeus’ 12 Rules of Leadership.”  I thought to myself, “I’ll [...]




  • The Importance of Leaving It All on the Field
    • November 12th, 2012
    In his concession speech Tuesday night Mitt Romney said that he and Paul Ryan “left everything on the field” during the recent presidential campaign. And from what I can tell, they did.  They even broke tradition [...]




  • The Other Dream Team
    • November 9th, 2012
    Over the weekend I saw a great movie called The Other Dream Team. If you recall, the original Dream Team was the USA basketball team in the 1992 Olympics.  This was the first time NBA professionals competed in the Olympics.  [...]




  • Is Your Reputation Haunted by Ghosts and Goblins?
    • October 29th, 2012
    It’s Halloween once again – time for the ghosts and goblins to come out and play. While ghosts and goblins are great fun on Halloween; they’re not good when they haunt your reputation.  Here are a couple of scary [...]




  • Your Unique Gifts, Skills and Abilities Make You Special
    • October 24th, 2012
    My corporate climb The other day, I interviewed Andy Mills retired President of the Thomson Reuters Financial Professional Publishing Group.  This interview is for my membership site, My Corporate Climb. Andy grew the [...]




  • How Ben Affleck Turned Around His Career
    • October 12th, 2012
    There’s a new movie about the Iran Hostage Crisis coming out on Friday. It’s called “Argo” and is directed by Ben Affleck.  Ben has resurrected his career.  If you recall, he was a mainstay of the tabloids [...]




  • To Thine Own Self Be True
    • October 3rd, 2012
    Hiring by algorithms There was in interesting article in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago  called “Meet the New Boss: Big Data, Companies trade In Hunch-Based Hiring for Computer Modeling.”  In part [...]