Recent Posts Tagged With 'business'

• The Problem with Leadership

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 06:00 in business, learning, leadership, leadership development

  Why it is so hard for companies to find great leaders? A guest post by By Dan MacDonald When leaders are chosen, the decision is often based on the wrong criteria. Many look to people with strong, charismatic personalities, or passion for personal a...

• Book Review: The Adversity Paradox

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 06:15 in personal development, business, book reviews, success, book review, self improvement, adversity

  Author: J. Barry Griswell and Bob Jennings An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success The Adversity Paradox is a fantastic business book.  It looks at how obstacles and setbacks in life (adversity) can create the experience a p...

• Maintain Your Business Connections

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 06:15 in relationships, business, Networking, CRM, contacts, business connections

  In my last article I wrote about the importance of maintaining your resume at times when you don’t expect to need it and this article is related and about maintaining your business connections. Its related at least from the perspective that you don...

• Maintain Your Resume

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 06:15 in business, resume, job search, career planning

  If there is one thing that people can probably recognize during a recession over anything else, it’s that anyone could find themselves out looking for work without warning.  This fact is one that simply reinforces the ideas in this article but I c...

• The 7th Age Of A Business: Exhaustion

  Posted on Friday May 22nd, 2009 at 11:00 in business, change, acceptance, exhaustion, delegation

  This article is part of a series about the 7 ages of a business, an entrepreneur perspective, initially published at eDragonu.ro . The remaining 6 articles are published as guest posts on 6 other fine personal development and business blogs. You will...

• Creating a Great Strategy

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 07:15 in business, Strategy, leadership, results, opportunities, planning, strengths, aspirations, decisions

  Strategy is an interesting topic and certainly not an uncommon one in business when it comes to planning, decisions and organizational leadership.  I am going to explore some pieces of strategy, how to develop and utilize a strategy and also extend ...

• The Attitude of Selling Value

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 06:30 in business, attitude

  I heard a very interesting suggestion by a colleague at work recently about the value you suggest when selling a product or closing a deal.  The suggestion was this: Do not thank someone for their business when you close a sale, complete your servic...

• What Does Working Hard Mean to You?

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 06:15 in business, working hard, simplify, overwork, work smarter

  I hear so many debates with employees and writers about how hard they work or how hard they work compared to others.  Everyone has a a different meaning for what working hard really is.  What is yours? It is NOT Working More? The first thing here...

• Guest Podcast at Joe and Wanda on Management

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 18:30 in business, Management, leadership, enable, empower

  Podcast Management Tip – Enabling Other’s Suggestions Nick was kind enough to invite me to do a management tip as a podcast with him on his blog.  It’s my first podcast and I think a useful tip for managing and leading others which has a been ...

• Life and Work Balance

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 06:30 in life, work, business, balance, Sacrifice

  Life and work balance seems like it is always a massive struggle for so many people in their lives.  There are constant pressures and trade-offs between working more to get ahead and having time for the rest of your life that seem to always clash no...

• Guest Post: How to Find and Develop Your Own Internal Motivation

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 14:17 in business, motivation, comfort zone, associations, reframe your mind

  I’ve got one more guest post to everyone to and that is my latest article called, How to Find and Develop your Own Internal Motivation at PickYourBrain.com/blog. The only reason people ever really do anything is due to motivation.  It may be o...

• How to Mediate Difficult Communication Situations

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 07:15 in communication, business, mediation, empathy, difficult situations

  Some of my previous articles have been based on communications and while I’ve covered several different topics for improvement such as listening , speaking , and writing , I didn’t get into any specific areas that are typical breakdowns w...