Business Success

We Are the Company - and Books - We Keep

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Success, Creativity, Changethis, Business Success, Personal Growth, Innovation Guru, Personal Development, Jeff DeGraff, University of Michigan, Competing Values Framework, Innovation, Legacy, Business, Career Success, Jeffrey DeGraff, Books News

I was recently asked by an authority figure in fashionable red pumps to tidy up my library. I can only assume this is the first step of a more serious intervention. You see, I have a little problem with books. I'm addicted to them.

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The #1 Tip For Being Successful In Business

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Book News, Sales Tip, Sales Book, Business Success, Business Tip, Business Book, Business Advice, Successful Business, Business Advice Book, Books News

Madeleine Crum, The Huffington Post: The following is an excerpt from Philip Delves Broughton's "The Art of The Sale: Learning from the Masters About ...

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How to Make Your Company More Like Apple

Daniel Burrus | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Business Strategy, Apple, Business Success, Apple Success, Apple Iphone, Apple iTunes, Apple Apps, Apple Business, Business News

How has Apple managed to make their product so appealing to a broad demographic... and how can you do the same? The answer is simple: Apple has a long-term strategy.

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The Art of Growing Old

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Success, Creativity, Changethis, Business Success, Personal Growth, Innovation Guru, Personal Development, Jeff DeGraff, University of Michigan, Competing Values Framework, Innovation, Legacy, Business, Career Success, Aging Gracefully, Healthy Living News

While we know that various types of creative endeavors and play are essential to the cognitive development of children, there is considerable debate among researchers as to whether these benefits are ongoing and extend to the elderly.

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Women Business Owners More Confident Than Men About Their Companies

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Small Business News and Trends, Business Success, Women Business Owners, Small Business Confidence, Video, Small Business News

Women business owners are more confident about their companies than men, according to the Small Business Pulse survey conducted by the insurance compa...

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3 Steps to Moving Beyond the Recession

Melissa Van Rossum | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Recession Fears, Business Success, Healing Grief, Finding Happiness, Conscious Relationships, Change, How to Change, Wisdom, Personal Growth, Gps-Soul, Emotional Wellness, Deal With Change, Healthy Living News

With these three steps, we can heal the grief that binds us, and move forward in wise and insightful ways that we could not have before our challenges.

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MacGyvering Our Way Out of the Creativity Crisis

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Success, Creativity, Changethis, Business Success, Personal Growth, Innovation Guru, Personal Development, Jeff DeGraff, Competing Values Framework, Innovation, Legacy, Business, Career Success, Mind, Healthy Living News

Innovation is mostly about seeing what others miss, connecting the dots and taking purposeful action. To do so, we must intentionally look in our blind spots.

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Joyriding With Ayn Rand

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Creativity, Changethis, Business Success, Personal Development, Jeff DeGraff, Innovation, Legacy, Jeffrey DeGraff, Business, Career Success, Success, Innovation Guru, Personal Growth, Competing Values Framework, Corazon Aquino, University of Michigan. Ayn Rand, Books News

I didn't get a good look at the driver but I did spot the unmistakable Ducks Unlimited decal and a bumper sticker that read, "Ayn Rand Was Right." I wondered, "right about what?"

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1 Stat Picks Super Bowl Winner... and Business Success?

John Fox | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Leadership, Sales, Business Success, Business, Business Turnover, Intel, Business News

With eerie predictability, the "Turnover Stat" holds true. Even in slow-growth industries, those businesses driven by customer retention AND customer acquisition just do better. They make more money, have happier customers and are better places to work.

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How to Get Your Employees to Embrace Change

Morty Lefkoe | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Business Success, Change, Embrace Change, Morty Lefkoe, Customer Satisfaction, Att, Baby Bells, Service Technicians, Lefkoe Belief Process-Changed Environment, Employee Training, Business News

Today an organization's management either recognizes the need to change or it will watch helplessly as market share and profitability slowly (and in some cases, quickly) disappears.

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The Patron Saint of Mediocrity (or How I Would Settle for Merely Competent Leaders)

Jeff DeGraff | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Success, Creativity, Business Success, Personal Growth, Innovation Guru, Jeff DeGraff, University of Michigan, Competing Values Framework, Innovation, Legacy, Business, Career Success, Jeffrey DeGraff, Changethis, Business News

At the conclusion of the delightful movie Amadeus, the jealous and mischievous court composer Antonio Salieri, who has undone Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,...

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The Internet and the Earth

Jeff Gitterman | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Success, Life Success Advice, Business Success, Internet, Business Advice, Happiness, Mindful Living, Vint Cerf, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

When we give our attention to another human being, that person suddenly feels met and fulfilled, and will stop craving your time and endlessly taking.

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The Most Important Thing I Never Learned in School

Jeff Gitterman | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Financial Advice, Business Success, Life Advice, Business Advice, Never Learned School, Business Life Advice, Life Success Advice, Healthy Living News

Most of us have been taught to focus on getting the big dollars and the big job, whatever it is, but we rarely come to understand that what we get really has nothing to do with what we want to get.

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4 Networking Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Business Networking, Career Advice, Business Success, Career Advice for Women, Networking, Following Up, Women News

By Diane Kulseth | The Daily Muse Whether you’re looking for a job or not, you’ve probably been encouraged to “network, network, network!” ...

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The Day I Wore Lipstick to Wall Street

Lydia Fisher | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Business Success, Career Tips, Wall Street, Women on Wall Street, Career Path, Career Success, Red Lipstick, Red Lips, Lancome, Women News

In the 1980s, there was an "understood" dress code. Largely dark suits with skirts to the mid-calf. Demure dresses just started. Forget about cleavage or bright colors. The one bright spot -- nothing about the kind of make-up one could wear.

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Why Criticism is Important to Success

Grant Cardone | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Business Success, Social Media, Media Criticism, Business Tips, Social Media Marketing, Business Advice, Constructive Criticism, Business News

Success is limited only by how much attention you can get for yourself, your products and your ideas. The right amount of attention will always attra...

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What American Idol Teaches Us About Business

Peggy McColl | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Authors, Speakers, Business Success, Small Business, American Idol, Peggy McColl, Internet Marketing, Business News

I was amazed at what successful business skills were reinforced simply by observing the show, the judges, the contestants, and their performances.

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Innovation Starts With You

Michael Port | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Creativity, Michael Port, Business Success, Business Creation, Starting a Business, Small-Business-Innovation, Success Tips, Small Business Adivce, Innovation, Business Change, Small Business America, Business News

Every successful entrepreneur, indeed every successful person, is an innovator. You might be saying to yourself, "Not me, I'll never invent the light bulb. Don't confuse the idea of innovation with the idea of invention.

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The Formula for Success: Having the Right People By Your Side

Michael Tasner | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Success, Online Marketing, Marketing, zappos.com, Business Success, Apple CEO, Google, Business News

Everyone has dreams, goals and intentions. To illustrate that point, I wanted to share a true story. In 2000, the Russians were playing war games an...

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The Key To Success That No One Talks About

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Business Success, Self Help, Company Ethos, Success Advice, Success Tips, Ethos, Ethos Success, Business Ethos, Healthy Living Mind, Healthy Living News

Skills, knowledge and ethos -- improve the first two, and you'll be pretty good, but tackling the third will put you on the road toward greatness.

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Success Is Important

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Success, Winning, Success Tips, Business Success, Success Advice, Importance of Success, Inspiration, Financial Success, Healthy Living News

The last couple of years of economic turmoil should have made it obvious that we all underestimated how much success is needed and how valuable it actually is to our survival and well-being.

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Who Says Business Isn't Personal?

Carolyn Ziel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Owners, Business Success, Heart, Small Business, Spirituality and Business, Women in Business, Business, Entrepreneurship, Business News

Remember the scene in You've Got Mail when Tom Hanks tells Meg Ryan, "It's not personal, it's business"? I love her response: "What is that supposed t...

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Inspiration from Empowered Women, Share Your Own (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business Success, Empowered Women, Women's Issues, Empowerment, Success Tips, Career Advice, Women in Business, Business, Women's Empowerment, Female Leaders, Slidepollajax, Inspirational Quotes, Women Advice, Empowered Women Quotes, Style News

These days, there are more women with college degrees than men -- as clear an indicator as any of progress by generations of empowered women. Yet ther...

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The Destination May Be Prosperity, but What About the Journey?

Carolyn Ziel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Success, Business Success, Belief Systems, Success Tips, Prosperity Consciousness, Shared Prosperity, Prosperity, Business, Belief, Business News

It seems that in order to be successful, and wildly so, we must adopt an attitude of prosperity while infusing passion into the business.

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Holiday Business Survival Tips: From Frosty Forecasts to New Year Fortunes

Karen Luniw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holiday, Business Success, Business, Grinch, Networking, Attraction, Business News

Does your business slow down during the Holiday season? How do you stay positive, on track and in the black? Here's a few tips I share with my coaching clients.

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