Halley Suitt – How To Become An Alpha Male in 18 Easy Lessons

I guess I’d have to say the number one thing all alpha males have and they have it in spades, is that they look like they’re getting it. Now, I’ll discuss later whether in fact this has anything to do with whether they actually ARE getting it, but that happens to be secondary to LOOKING like you are getting it.

So if you are ever hope to climb up the ladder of the Greek alphabet to Alphadom, all the way from the sad, overpopulated backwaters of Omegaland — you have to start looking like you are getting it. And what does that mean?

Well, let’s start with Pierce Brosnan, or any actor who ever played James Bond, in fact. Guys who look like they are getting it actually look a little post-coital — hair a little messy, eyes a little tired. They look rather casual about it, even disinterested — which is why they DO get it — because they don’t look like they’re begging for it. And women always go for that — it’s the guy who looks like he doesn’t care much if he gets it or not and also looks like he can get it whenever and whereever he wants, that gets you all stirred up — he’s a bit arrogant, he makes you slow down and take a second look. You think, “Well, who the hell does he think he is?” And once a woman’s thought that, well, guys you are most decidedly in the drivers seat. She’s going to have that burning need to find out about you.

So think of Bond again. He looks like he’s got something better to do — save the world, hang from a helicopter by one shoe lace, use his remote-control BMW to flatten terrorists — and since he looks like he really doesn’t have time for it, he actually manages to LOOK like he’s getting it big time — and in fact, he DOES get it, whenever he wants. Get it?

About Author:

Halley Suitt is the author of the blog Halley’s Comment, where she wrote “How To Become An Alpha Male In 18 Easy Lessons.” She is a Senior Editor and book reviewer at Worthwhile Magazine, as well as the creator of the weblog for the magazine. In 2004, she was honored by The Anita Borg Institute, as an “Online Diva” and spoke at The Tech Museum in San Jose, CA with co-divas from Google, Yahoo! and Cisco Systems. Ms. Suitt is the Writer-In-Residence for The National Center for Women and Information Technology. She hosts the web-based internet radio program “Memory Lane” on ITConversations. Halley has appeared on Oprah.

Halley is a pioneer in the blogosphere, writing her blog Halley’s Comment, since 2002, where she wrote “How To Become An Alpha Male In 18 Easy Lessons.”

Halley began her career in software technical writing and translation (French to English), then held various positions in software sales and marketing. Most recently, she has been involved in event planning and audience development for technology and business conferences sponsored by Harvard Business School Publishing, TTI Vanguard and The Tom Peters Company.

Halley is currently Chief Editor at Communispace Corp. in Watertown, MA. Previously, she was the CEO of venture-backed start-ups, including Top Ten Media (acquired by MeeVeeTV in 2008) and Stylefeeder sold to Time Warner in 2010.

She published a case study on employee bloggers in Harvard Business Review and a fictional short story in Penthouse Magazine. She’s spoken at many industry conferences, including O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology: Digital Democracy event, at Jupiter Research’s Weblog Business Strategies conference on “Strategies and Tips For Business Blogging” and at Harvard Law School’s BloggerCon conference, where she led a discussion about her case study, “A Blogger in Their Midst” from Harvard Business Review. She has been quoted in a variety of online and mainstream media sources. She has appeared on the Oprah show.

She attended Mount Holyoke College (BA cum laude English/French) and Columbia University (MFA Writing). She studied at Universite de Paris: Sorbonne. She lives in Boston, MA.

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