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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
The Death Of Job Security
The old school method of job progression is dead for two reasons:
- Job security is dead, no more staying at the one company forever.
- The internet and technology has created the means for much more flexible work styles.
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Two Kinds Of Knowledge
- Street smarts & practice, where you’ve learned it “in the real world” and know how to apply it. Only learned by doing it.
- Theoretical, abstract knowledge you get from books and school that doesn’t have a tie to your experience and the real world. Har...
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The Two Questions
Two powerful questions for making connections and providing value to people:
- What’s most exciting for you right now in your life/ business?
- What’s challenging for you in your life/ business right now?
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That Risky Dream
Entrepreneurship is like dating – failures are unavoidable and are a part of learning. What matters most is resilience.
If the pursuit of a risky dream imparts useful business skills along the journey, then even in the worst case, the pursuer ends up learning useful skills.
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Making Worthwhile Connections
Great networking is not about the back-and-forth, it’s about giving with no expectation of anything in return.
There are two basic ways to find great connections
- Find people with great future potential and help them in reaching their goal
- Add some value to the life of som...
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Marketing: Don't Let Your Company Remain Obscure
The general perception of marketing is that it’s sleazy and manipulative, the reality is that good marketing is making your potential customers know about you (or your company).
A lot of businesses fail because they are not able to reach out to the right customers.
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Investing for Success: Learning
Learning as an adult: Adults need a reason to learn something, they are involved in planning as well as evaluation, more interested in subjects having immediate relevance, more interest in problem-oriented (as oppose to content-oriented), and prefer more self-directed education (...
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Building Your Brand
Your brand is what people think about when they hear your name.
One should have a website under his/her name to establish the brand.
Robert Scoble started blogging when there were ~200 blogs in the world. Worked in NEC sales dept, even...
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Entrepreneurial vs. Employee Mindset
- An entrepreneurial mindset focuses on contribution, outcome and moves towards big decisions even without authority.
- The employee mindset, on the other hand, focuses on entitlement, output, and turns away even from small decisions.
- Entrepreneurs see current circumstances as te...
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Work Yourself Out Of Your Job, To Take A Bigger Role
Entrepreneurial mindset people carve out their path as oppose to working on the path carved out by someone else.
Caesar Ritz started as a waiter, but he looked at himself in a waiter role, as a transitional point, to h...
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Sales As A Leadership Skill
- One can get better at a particular craft but being able to sell oneself is equally important (successful people in a craft are not always the best individuals of that craft).
- Success is a skill – it consists of the skill of marketing, the skill of sales and skill of leadership.
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People don’t talk about the best-writing author; they talk about the best-selling author.
MICHAEL ELLSBERG
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Making An Impact: On Your Own
Impact requires venturing into the unknown (whose risk most people avoid) and leadership (which acts as a multiplier of impact).
Four steps:
- Get financial stability: Get rid of debts, and have some savings.
- Create room for experimentation:
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