Books to Read to Achieve Success
You don’t need an MBA from an ivy-league school to learn about business and achieve success. By reading books from successful businessmen or thought leaders, you can get hints and advise about being successful and use these in your career. There are many motivational business books out there that must be read but below are …
How Brands Can Have a Successful Marketing Plan for Book Publishing
Publishing a book is a great way to build your personal brand, and can used for building a loyal following online. It takes time to develop the marketing process for this, but with the right strategy you can have both time for writing and strategy.
Are you looking for more time for your book marketing? …
Solve for Why … The Business Secret
How often do you ask why?
Is there a maximum number of times to ask why?
Why … do you say that or think that?
The 5 Why’s
Asking why five times is a commonly used tool (and expression) to get to the root of an issue. In the system developed in Japan by Sakichi …
So, How Did Your Interview Go?
In several of my previous blogs, I alluded to the known fact of the huge disconnect between a candidate and an interviewer(s). The candidate has been preparing for this major event for a while—and with fervor—and anticipates that the event will result in a job offer. This is the interview that could change the candidate’s …
Opposites Attract and Provide Valuable Insight for New Ideas
A very good business practice is to ask opinions of those who tend to think quite differently. This is particularly so for when a new idea comes to life but you want to make sure there aren’t any gaps in the plan.
Opposing Opinions
For example, those who are creative versus those more technical in …
4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Diversity and Inclusion
It’s the year 2016, and diversity has finally emerged as a near-universal value in the business world. Company leaders from Alaska to Florida have discovered that to ignore diversity is to ignore untapped pools of talent and potential — and doing so leaves our workplaces woefully incomplete in the process.
But understanding why inclusion and …
Being Too Busy Syndrome
We all are too busy. There is no doubt about that. Thanks to internet and smart phones, everybody is available all the time. However, did you ever notice that the people who constantly mention that they are very busy are in fact the least effective ones? Being very busy is not an indicator of being …
What Keeps Your Good People
Companies have long recognized the importance of smart employee recruiting. Now they are discovering that it’s just as important to spend their time on retention. This may involve financial factors, of course. AON Consulting studied 1,140 high-tech workers and found that 56 percent would stay at their current job longer if offered a similar job …
How to Develop Your Personal Brand Through Logistics
You’re going to need perspective to be successful in business. Not just your own perspective on how business operates, but for others to have a dialed in view of your capacity within that industry.
Whether you’re developing a shipping company, construction firm, or other type of blue-collar establishment, you’ll need to learn the numbers — …
Focus and Belief Lead to Dreams Coming True
Do you sometimes wish you had an extra 24 hours to complete all of your projects?
Every four years we experience an extra day in the year. For those with the entrepreneurial mindset, the day is a gift on many levels. A small percentage of the population use this day and most others to allow …