You can start a business without a business plan, but if you are going to be successful, at some point, you’ll have to formulate one, even if it’s only in your head. No business can succeed in the long run, if its activities are unfocused. By far the best way to achieve the direction you [...]
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Whether one defines leaders in Machiavellian terms or in more progressive ways, a small number of them has had a disproportionate effect on our world. One reason these special people stand out is that multiple leadership qualities rarely manifest themselves in a single individual. Opportunities to lead occur in politics, the military, schools, churches, businesses, [...]
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Although the United States is in the midst of an economic downturn and real-estate prices have plummeted in many parts of the country, housing rental is still a good way to make money. Unlike the 1990s when you could purchase nearly any kind of house, fix it up, and rent it, in this decade, landlords [...]
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Work occupies an enormous chunk of our lives. We spend more time with our colleagues in the workplace than we do relaxing with our families, visiting with friends, or pursuing our passions. Americans are insanely work-oriented, and workweeks of fifty and sixty hours are not exceptional. Fortunately, some tricks exist for making the hours we [...]
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Networking can do great things for us on several levels. It can land jobs, bring consulting work, create political opportunities, build friendships, and introduce future spouses. We fool ourselves into thinking that talent, education, and experience bring success, when the probable truth is that success is partly luck and mostly whom you know. We can’t [...]
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Email has given remarkable rapidity and permanency to everything we say using it. In only seconds, we can diss a rival, deep-six a relationship, send a Dear John letter, amp up a disagreement, trash a coworker, or generally toss around bad karma. The medium is so fast that we are too easily able to lash [...]
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We all would like to accomplish more with our time, and we seek to use it more effectively in our professional and personal lives. The best approach to using time to the fullest is to improve the management of it on a daily basis. Here are twelve suggestions for using your time better each day: [...]
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