Thinking Aloud
The Tax Advantages To Investing In Oil And Gas Your CPA’s Probably Never Heard...
Investing in oil and gas as a new and alternative tax strategy can be a great way to substantially reduce your tax burden. Casey Minshew, COO of EnergyFunders looks at how you can leverage this alternative option.
6 Things You Need To Start A Construction Business
Paul Murray, Director of Jem Design shares some of the things you will need when planning to start a construction business.
5 Tips On Turning Your Passion Into A Thriving Business
As a wedding photographer Joe Josland has been lucky enough to find an outlet for his passion that offers everything he ever wanted in a job: flexibility, fun and wonderful moments. He shares five tips from his personal experience that will help you turn a passion into the perfect enterprise.
Paranoia Check: The Playbook For Staying Focused
Paranoia can be a good trait in business to help keep you on your toes, but it’s crucial that you keep it in context. Instead of looking out, start by looking within to evaluate your company’s position and opportunity to stand out from the pack, says Pamela Springer, CEO of ORIS Intelligence.
5 Super Tips From A Minority Woman On How To Succeed In 2017
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, African Americans make up less than five percent of the lawyers in the country. But you cannot rest on your laurels and wait for the statistics to get better before you blaze your own trail into your career of choice, says Jamie Wright.
7 Surprising Truths About Guessing Your Way Out Of A Problem
That two-hour brainstorming session your team dives into is a waste of time, according to problem-solving expert Nat Greene. He lists the 7 hard truths about guessing that prevent us from real problem-solving.
This Is Why Dogs Would Be Better At Workplace Engagement
Dogs understand what it means to create meaningful relationships with their owners - so why not take a few employee engagement ideas from our furry friends? Val Matta, vice president of business development at CareerShift shares some lessons leaders can learn from man’s best friend.
Punishment In The Workplace: When, Why, And How?
If you want to achieve at the highest level, if you want to make the upside unlimited or nearly so, if you don’t want to put a cap on people’s performance, you have to find a way to reward them for it. If you need a minimum standard, negative reinforcement can get you there, but you’re creating a ceiling, says Mackenzie Kyle, author of "The Performance Principle".
The Benefits Of Daily Meditation
Just one week of brief daily meditation has been found to produce significant improvements in attention, energy, and stress. Yunha Kim, founder of Simple Habit shares six ways meditation can improve your personal and professional life.
The Buddhists Of Silicon Valley
When Lawrence Levy sat down to write "To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History", he was making a conscious choice to look back and reflect upon what he saw. Levy’s current spiritual path might lead one to believe that he can do so from a more enlightened “now,” undeterred by the past’s distractions.
Focus Bonus Exercise
by Michael S. Melfi, author of “The Simple Secrets of Being an Entrepreneur“
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8 Skills Every Entrepreneur Should Have To Become An Influencer
Patrick Panuncillon, CEO of Linkvista Digital Inc. explains why influencers are those people whose advice can be crucial to the way people run their businesses.
4 Ways To Keep Infobesity From Killing Employee Productivity
Infobesity, or the onslaught of information thrown at our employees every day, is an epidemic, and it’s affecting us all. Santiago Jaramillo, co-author of "Agile Engagement" looks at four ways to help your team battle infobesity.
3 Keys To Organizing A Small Team For A Big Project
12 year old Kenan Pala learned that the true value of team-building is bringing together a variety of unique skill sets.
Everything I Never Learned In School About How To Be Successful
The reason that tremendous success is achieved by so few is because they know something that most young would-be entrepreneurs don’t — something that is not taught in schools and hardly ever realized by younger people. Darin Colucci, author of "Everything I Never Learned in School about How to Be Successful", explains.
Vinny Paz’s Comeback And Overpreparedness: A Lesson For Leaders
As a pitching coach, Rick Peterson has seen a gratifying number of athletes commit to the rigors of training and discipline, both physical and mental. But he says it’s hard to beat boxer Vinny Paz, whose steeliness and overpreparedness are skills underutilized in the business world.
4 Easy Ways To Improve Your Business Diversity
The employment of women and minorities still lags well behind the proportion of the population in many key industries. Heather Landau, founder of Start An American Company.com shares a few methods businesses can use to improve the diversity of their staff, and work towards greater long-term gains and a more accepting and comfortable work environment.
Small Employers; Big Savings: Self-Funding Health Benefits Is An Option
Before assessing self-funded health insurance for your business, you need to understand the two pillars of health insurance: funding and risk. Ron E. Peck, senior vice president and general counsel at The Phia Group, LLC. looks at self-funding as an option.
Why Active Management Will Prevail Over The Annual Performance Review
The most significant reason is that the annual performance review is simply unable to sustain, measure, or improve employee productivity in the workplace in a way that is effective or engaging for employees.
Simple & Easy – Two Secrets Of A Remarkable Customer Experience
It's not that customers don't want to be loyal, it's that many companies are still making things too difficult. Companies continue to annoy customers by insisting on making the customer experience anything but easy, argues Noah Fleming, author of "The Customer Loyalty Loop".
Climb the Ladder Of Intentionality To Unleash Your Potential
Most of us will die full of potential – and that includes businesses as well as people. One of the key drivers of this phenomenon is the lack of intentionality, insists Jeremy Cage, President of The Cage Group and author of "All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work".
What David Copperfield Can Teach You About Marketing
Thanks to the brilliant book "Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing" by Roger Dooley, Walter Lim learned six of the selling secrets of magicians.
A VC Puts On His Equity Crowdfunding Hat
When it comes to funding a business, not all dollars are the same. If he was an entrepreneur seeking funding, here are some of the things Tom Walker, president & CEO of Rev1 Ventures says he would think about in considering equity crowdfunding as a fit for his company.
Rethinking The Way Companies Collaborate And Execute Business Processes
Companies today are hindered with difficult to use, siloed business systems that fail to simplify communication around processes and improve how businesses operate. Nick Candito, cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly shares how his company is rethinking the way businesses work.
Advice That Sticks: Focus On What You Can Affect
The best piece of advice Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay ever got - focus on the things you can affect. He shares what that has meant for him over the years.
Going Global: Five Tips For Singapore Startups Looking To Market Beyond Local Shores
What are the secret ingredients needed to take your company beyond Singapore’s shores? With the acceleration of globalisation, it is unlikely that the ingredients in the recipe that may have been have used just 10 years ago would be the right ones required for international expansion today, asserts Jason Humphries, co-founder of Suu Balm
Beauty On Demand
Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla discusses the immense potential that exists untapped in markets the world over – the beauty on demand app, to cater to all your grooming and stylistic needs.
The Case For A Five Hour Workday
The idea of working less doesn’t jive with the hard-working, big-earning ideal the American workforce so proudly identifies with. While the five-hour workday garnered rave reviews overseas, Americana have approached it skeptically, says Stephan Aarstol, "The Five-Hour Workday: Live Differently, Unlock Productivity, and Find Happiness".
Unbarred Innovation
The ideology that innovation comes only with talent is a misconception as any person, business and organisation has the potential to be a world-changing innovator, argues Mayur Ramgir, author of "Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries".
Mindset Versus Strategy
As you embark (or continue) on your entrepreneurial journey, there is nothing wrong with creating solutions as it is key to building a value mindset and success. But Michael S. Melfi, author of “The Simple Secrets of Being an Entrepreneur“, asks what shoud you put first - the mindset, or the strategy?