“be Better” Tips for Everyone
7 Powerful Morning Routines of Mentally Tough People How U.S. Olympians and Navy SEALs start their day off strong (and you can too).
Life as a busy entrepreneur is a bumpy rollercoaster ride, to say the very least. So how do successful people get through those crazy days? It all starts with waking up mentally tough. Skills can only take you so far without the grit, determination and mental willpower to tackle anything life throws at you. Thankfully,…
Read MoreWhat Successful People Do On Sunday To Be Productive All Week
By Stephanie Booth This story originally appeared on LearnVest. It’s hard not to resent Mondays. The day marks the end of the fun and freedom of the weekend—and that’s especially true during the summer, when ordinary Saturdays and Sundays have a carefree vacation vibe. Even if you love your job, the angst of having to…
Read MoreTen Signs Your Company Has A Culture Problem
It is time for corporate and institutional leaders to be honest with themselves and one another about the real problems that keep companies from achieving their goals. They don’t miss their goals because Sally in Accounting is a poor performer or because the company inexplicably developed a voluntary turnover problem when seven or eight of their…
Read MoreTen Things A Good Manager Won’t Ask Employees To Do
Millions of words have been written and published about what it takes to become a strong leader. We should talk about another aspect of leadership, which is the fact that it’s really hard to be a great leader because the corporate and institutional framework make it much easier to manage badly than to manage well.…
Read MoreSmall Things People Use To Judge Your Personality
The human brain is hardwired to judge. This survival mechanism makes it very hard to meet someone without evaluating and interpreting their behavior. While we tend to think that our judgments are based on the content of conversations and other obvious behaviors, the research says otherwise. In fact, the majority of our judgments are focused…
Read MoreWhat Successful People Do On Sunday To Be Productive All Week
By Stephanie Booth This story originally appeared on LearnVest. It’s hard not to resent Mondays. The day marks the end of the fun and freedom of the weekend—and that’s especially true during the summer, when ordinary Saturdays and Sundays have a carefree vacation vibe. Even if you love your job, the angst of having to…
Read MoreWhat Deeply Intuitive People Do Differently
Steve Jobs once said that intuition is more powerful than intellect. As it turns out, Jobs was onto something, and the scientific community backs him up. It seems that we’ve been giving intuition far too little respect. “Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.” – Jonas Salk In a Salk Institute study,…
Read MoreTo thrive at Under Armour, you have to answer Kevin Plank’s three questions
When you think about sports companies, which come to mind? Adidas, right? It was founded in 1949. And how about Nike, circa 1969? For sure. But when the data was crunched for LinkedIn’s U.S. list of Top Attractors, the companies where people want to work now, only one showed up: Under Armour, founded by Kevin Plank…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Quality- The Implications of Poor Quality
The Quality Imperative According to Larry A. Pace, 2007-11-12, Electronic Journal Business Ethics and Organizations Studies [EJBEOS] [i]; “Total Quality Management (TQM) has been described as an ideology, a corporate culture change phenomenon, a set of “hard” techniques, a set of “soft” skills, and as a pragmatic approach to business survival’. EJBEOS here sets forth “the “Ideology”…
Read More7 Face-To-Face Networking Mistakes That Could Kill Your Professional Image
Despite all the online ways to link up with potential clients, I still believe making in-person connections needs to be a part of everybusiness owner’s networking regimen. When you’re face-to-face with people, you can form bonds more easily because they get a more complete picture of who you are through your voice, body language, and…
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