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There's an article on LinkedIn Pulse, Recruitment industry will die in 2018 which has been quite the conversation piece and stirred the passions. It's foreboding news for recruiters that have a vested interest in perpetuating their jobs. The author compares what is happening in talent recruitment
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We have that wonderful opportunity each day to express thanks and give to the people that come in and out of our life and work. Here's a short list of people to consider expressing thanks towards: * Someone who took initiative to help you with an opportunity * A friend
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The whole concept of business is inverted today compared to 20 years ago. You may have old notions that entrepreneurship is inaccessible or extremely risky. However, that is old and outdated information. The reality is that entrepreneurship is much lower risk than many other business pursuits. It's easy
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We live in unprecedented times with automation, technology and ridiculous speed. It can delude us into thinking we have immense power and reach when in actuality, we do business and work in a world of human beings. Our interactions, slights, likes, moods, and movements matter in whether we want to
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The illusion we have today in the marketplace is the buffet trap. We see everything that is available to us. This includes apps, freemium software, business ideas, low-cost labor and new growth hacking strategies. It's all available and cheaper and more accessible than ever. But if we gorge
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Money is flowing every day. Deals are made. People pull out their credit cards continuously to buy what they want. We don't have to create demand as much as we need to sell things that people want to buy and make it easy for them to do so.
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"What man needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling of some goal worthy of him." ~ Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning "Consider that if man were to succeed in ridding the world of all disease, poverty, pestilence, famine, and war,
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Here's the simple strategy for keeping you from getting washed away in the tides of innovation all around you: 1. Observe what's happening around you in your world and see what people are buying. 2. Come up with 3 ideas that get people to buy. 3.
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If the world was a static place, you could make your bed, set things in order and watch your money-making job or business simply cash flow without disruption. However, we don't live in Narnia. It's not a place of bliss and perfection. Now that everyone is
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If you are in continual chaos, why? Do you simply accept reality as one giant mess? Week after week is simply reactive and full of open loops? Yes, business can be overwhelming in our connected economy. We can all create work for each other rather quickly. However, when you think
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Manners matter. We know that interrupting people face-to-face is rude and can be quite embarrassing. Our social norms make it too risky to attempt to force our agendas and wills upon people we encounter in person. However, with distance and virtualization, there are still the unimaginative souls who persist in
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You don't have to do business the way you are set up currently. You could take the same core value you sell and repackage how you present your wares and skills to the market. The position you are in was a choice. Maybe it was practical. Early on