#Leadership : The Best 25 Motivational Quotes To Kick Start Every Morning… Your Ability to Stay Motivated isn’t just for your Personal Benefit; IT affects Those Around You as Well: your Team, your Investors, your Families and Friends. When you Can stay Motivated, Everyone Around you is Improved.
Thoughts become things, and as entrepreneurs and leaders, it is especially important that we remember to pay attention to our thoughts every day and motivational quotes are a great way of doing this. Your ability to stay motivated isn’t just for your personal benefit; it affects those around you as well: your team, your investors, […]
Your #Career : 5 Steps To Prep For Leaving Your Job To Start A New Business…According to a Survey from Deloitte, Two-Thirds of All Millennials Plan to Leave their Job by 2020 and 44% say they Would Leave their Employer in the Next 2 Years. If you Have Got the Itch to Leave your Job, You are Not Alone.
After you’ve chosen a career path, it’s easy to feel like you’re locked into that decision for the rest of your life. Maybe your job isn’t fulfilling, isn’t providing you with sufficient opportunities to develop your leadership, or you just feel like there is nothing new there for you to learn. According to a survey from Deloitte, […]
Your #Career : The Long-Term Memory Hack That Can Grow Your Network And Business…That Hiring Manager or Business Partner May Not be Ready to Act, but You’ll want Them to Remember you When they Are.
Entrepreneurs and job seekers both live or die by the relationships they build—with new clients, contacts, recruits, investors, and partners. But as any successful relationship builder can tell you, timing isn’t always on your side: Your dream client may not have the budget for your services right now, or maybe a strong candidate for a […]
#Life : 6 Things You’re Doing That You’ll Seriously Regret In 10 Years…Sure, They seem Like No Big Deal Now. But Be Careful of These Key Areas of Future Regret.
Scrolling through my social media feed, I noticed a college friend’s photograph of his son’s dormitory. My friend and I had been thick as thieves during our undergraduate years, and now his son was leaving home, and roughly the age his father was when he and I first met. Suddenly, I was hit with a […]
#Leadership : This 100-Year-Old To-Do List Hack Still Works Like A Charm…The “Ivy Lee Method” is Stupidly Simple, and That’s Partly Why It’s so Effective.
By 1918, Charles M. Schwab was one of the richest men in the world. Schwab (oddly enough, no relation to Charles R. Schwab, founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation) was the president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the largest shipbuilder and the second-largest steel producer in the U.S. at the time. The famous inventor Thomas Edison […]
#Life : 5 Simple Habits that Will Make you a More Positive Person…You can Adopt Simple Daily Practices that will Rewire your Psychology to Tend More Towards a Positive Outlook.
Are optimists born or made? We tend to think of those who see the sunnier side of life as having been blessed with a positive disposition. And it’s true that some significant portion of our happiness is probably determined by our pre-set tendency towards melancholy or cheer. But according to science, positivity is also very […]
#Leadership : 5 Things You Can Do At Home To Improve Your Life At Work…Don’t Underestimate the Power of Small Things Done at Home to Impact Success on the Job.
We all want to find happiness at work and at home, but 24% of U.S. employees say the balancing act is getting tougher to manage, according to a study by Ernst & Young (EY). That’s because work is spilling into time that should be spent on personal pursuits. About half of managers work more than […]
#Leadership : Great Leaders Replace Rules With Accountability…Is it Possible to Replace 90% of All Company Rules? So, What’s your Answer?
Recently we explored “Why Good Companies Have So Many Bad Rules” and “Why Almost All Rules And Policies Have Bad Outcomes.” So what is better than rules? How can we replace rules with something that still encourages the best behaviors? In a word: Accountability. Yves Morieux, a senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, urges companies […]
#Leadership : 6 Effective Ways To Get What You Want In Life…Gratitude is the Greatest Drug on the Planet . And there is no side effect. From Hand-Written Thank-You Notes to Taking Two Minutes and Writing Down as Many Things you’re Grateful For as Possible: When we Actually take a Moment to Focus Exclusively on Gratitude, it Shifts our Mood. This is Real Stuff. This Really Works.
Here are the highlights from my recent interview with Dave Kerpen, New York Times NYT +0.85% bestselling author and founder of Likeable Media, and his thoughts on outsourcing social media, being selfless, differentiating, staying top of mind and gratitude. William: Let’s talk about the connection between your new book, The Art of People,and the kind […]
#Leadership : 5 Reasons Employees Don’t Trust Their Boss or Their Company…Recent Report find that a Lot of Workers are Very Skeptical of their Bosses, and the Companies they Work For. In Concert, that Impacts Productivity, can Lead to a Toxic Workplace, and Hurts the Bottom Line.
Trust and loyalty are difficult to come by in the professional world. While the millennial generation seems happy enough to job-hop their way to the top, more and more employers are looking for ways to increase employee loyalty within their organizations. Finding new and trustworthy employees is difficult and expensive, and even as many people are […]