Entries by First Sun Team

#Leadership : Top 15 Apps To Make Your Life Easier Everyday…..2015 was a Year of Huge Advances in the World of Apps. They’ve Gone from a “Fun” addition to a Smartphone to Being a Useful, Necessary & even Revolutionary Way of doing Business, Among other Things.

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According to Apple, at the start of 2015, there were 1.4 million apps available for download and the 100 billion download mark was surpassed. In addition, by May of 2015, there were 40,000 new apps that were submitted to be released. With the abundant uprise in development and use, it has become almost impossible to […]

#Leadership : Why Attitude Is More Important Than IQ. Which Side of the Chart you Fall on?…By Keeping Track of How you Respond to the Little Things, You can Work every Day to Keep Yourself on the Right Side of the Chart.

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When it Comes to Success, it’s Easy to Think that People Blessed with Brains are Inevitably Going to Leave the Rest of Us in the Dust. But New Research from Stanford University will Change your Mind (& your Attitude). Psychologist Carol Dweck has spent her entire career studying attitude and performance, and her latest study […]

Your #Career : 4 Mistakes That Are Sabotaging Your Work-Life Balance…Do you Practically Live at Work? Better question: Do you Constantly Think about your Work away from Work (i.e. home, vacations, family gathering, etc.) ?

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Achieving a healthy balance between work and your personal life is possible, but it can be difficult. If you want to overcome those difficulties, you’ll have to make an effort to put an end to some of your bad habits. It’s possible you could be standing in your own way. Here are four behaviors you […]

Your #Career : How Winning Professionals Manage The Three Eras Of Their Careers…How Winning Professionals Manage their Careers through Lifetime Eras—Early, Mid, & Later Career, or Roughly Speaking, in your 20s, 30s, & then 40s & Beyond.”

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If you cut your finger, reach for a Band-Aid. Wake up with a headache, grab two aspirins. But quick remedies aren’t a regime for managing overall health. Nor for managing a career. You can power pose like Wonder Woman to boost your self-confidence, or  tweak your mornings to be more productive. Helpful stuff, but not […]

#Strategy : One Thing I Did Last Year That Nearly Doubled My Productivity…Adopting this Schedule has Helped me Become more Efficient, But it wasn’t Necessarily my Output that Saw a Spike this Year; It was More of an Increase in Quality.

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It’s difficult to nail down an effective, efficient workflow. There are many things to take into account – your diet, your environment and immediate surroundings, even the temperature in the room can impact how much, or how little, you’re getting done. We can spend a lot of time studying different strategies and attempting to make everything […]

Your #Career : New Year, New Strategy, New Job…So the Good News for Job Seekers is that Many People are Looking & Planning to Leave their Current Positions, which in Turn Creates Turnover

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Whether you are thinking about finding a new job or contemplating a career shift to another field, the start of a new year is actually a good time to embark upon your search. Making a career change ranks high on many people’s list of New Year’s resolutions. A large spike in people searching on-line job […]

#Leadership : 6 Things Great Leaders Do Differently…Behavior can Change, & Leaders Who Work to Improve their Skills get Results.

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Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you’re working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.   It was recently rumored that Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz would run for president, but […]

#Strategy : 3 Proven Ways to Survive a Bad Day at Work… OK, We’ve All Been There Before: the Dreaded Bad Day at work. Truth be Told, a Day is Only as Bad as You Allow it To Be.

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You wake up late after hitting the snooze button too many times. You stumble into the office with coffee stains on your tie. A calendar reminder about a mandatory meeting you forgot about pops up at the worst time. Your incompetent boss wants to talk to you about putting a cover sheet on all TPS […]

#Leadership : 10 Ways a Terrible Boss Can Still Teach You How to Lead…If you Have a Terrible Boss, Comfort yourself by Considering How Much you’re Learning.

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Terrible bosses are everywhere. They’re no fun to work for, but their lousy leadership does come with a silver lining: valuable “what not to do” lessons on effective leadership. Here are 10 of the most important areas where you can learn from your boss’ bad example. 1. Lack of decisiveness. Atrophy, entropy and lethargy hold […]