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Peter Drucker said it best when it comes to the work we do today, "In knowledge work, the task is not given. It has to be determined." We are in a world where there is a lot of information flying around. Sometimes, we are being social. Other times
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The business cycle with holidays, end of year and bookkeeping is an opportunity for you if you can relax and take advantage of the natural down time. Trying to force fit activities that are likely a better fit in the up times will only lead to frustration, and perhaps disfavor,
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The worst thing that you can do in your work is to continue with business-as-usual when there are unseen forces acting on you. Whether you feel content working a job or continuing to work in a market that is obsolescing, the lack of feedback on a daily basis can build
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First movers do have some advantages. Like an Oklahoma land rush they can stake their claim in a new market and hold a position that comes with being first. This kind of positioning in the mind of people new to a market means less work persuading buyers on what is
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"The more you like to play, the more self-disciplined you should be." ~ Robert Ringer I like to play. Maybe work is your life. Not me. My work building businesses and growing ventures is a lot of fun and fulfilling, but ultimately, I play as much as anyone I
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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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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 However, that is old and outdated information.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.