Business is very simple. To succeed, an entrepreneur simply needs to follow the universal laws of business. Whether the business is a one-person shop or a billion-dollar conglomerate, they are governed by the same business principles. This is the premise of Ram Charan's primer on how companies work in his book "What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really … [Read more...] about Understanding Basic Business Principles
Leadership
How to Overcome Challenges and Climb Your Mountain
As an entrepreneur, your daily life is beset with challenges of all kinds. Each day, you must find ways to solve your problems and learn how to turn difficulties into opportunities. Here are ten ways you can approach your seemingly "insurmountable" mountains of challenges. It's sheer madness. How on earth are we going to accomplish this feat? Mountains are big; but let's … [Read more...] about How to Overcome Challenges and Climb Your Mountain
How to Reach Any Goals
The most successful entrepreneurs are those who are the most driven. Learn how to reach any goals that you want to achieve by following these four steps. T Think It Through: All winning teams, sports or otherwise, know they must have a specific goal in mind to work towards. A football team knows that they must advance the ball down the field and score more times than their … [Read more...] about How to Reach Any Goals
What to Do When You are Overwhelmed
Walk into the room and can’t find your keys? Or forget why you entered the room in the first place? Wondering what has happened to your short-term memory? Feel overwhelmed by information, people, to-do lists and demands on your time? You very well could be suffering from SADD -- situational attention deficit disorder -- a term coined by Anderson Consulting Institute for … [Read more...] about What to Do When You are Overwhelmed
How to Make Time to Meet Your Goals
The comment I hear most frequently from business people is that they feel overwhelmed with work, and are often playing the game of "catch up." But there is a way for getting it all done without being overwhelmed. You are probably thinking, "but you don't understand - all the phone calls, on the spot decisions, immediate tasks." But I do understand. These are the realities of … [Read more...] about How to Make Time to Meet Your Goals
How to Overcome Fear and Heed Your Confidence Voice
You know fear can be powerful, controlling, limiting, and immobilizing. But did you know that when you accept your fear and tune in to your confidence voice, you can regain control and reap immeasurable rewards? How do we keep fear from controlling us? Trust me: I didn't develop skill in this field solely by earning a skydiving World Record or jumping out of a jet over the … [Read more...] about How to Overcome Fear and Heed Your Confidence Voice
How to Control Interruptions When Working from Home
A lot of our daily responsibilities require us to deal with interruptions, unanticipated events. These are not the problem. It is the unwanted, unnecessary interruptions that keep us from focusing on what really needs to get done. One strategy that I share in my Time Management seminars is the notion that “a problem well defined is 95% solved.” We need to interrupt the … [Read more...] about How to Control Interruptions When Working from Home
Creating Momentum to Achieve Success in Your Business
No matter what type of business you run, or what type of organization you lead, one of the keys that will determine the level of your success is momentum. Momentum is defined as “the force of movement”. It can help decide how high your business will go and how quickly you will get there. At the same time, momentum can often prove illusive, something that seems to be hear today … [Read more...] about Creating Momentum to Achieve Success in Your Business
Three Steps to Positive Goal Setting
As I conduct my Time Management Seminars all over, my audiences consistently tell me they want more out of life. Almost everyone I speak with has a yearning for improving several aspects of their lives. They have dreams and goals about their future as yet unrealized. Many come to the end in life with those visions unrealized, pictures in their minds only. Achieving goals … [Read more...] about Three Steps to Positive Goal Setting
Building Your Ideas for Success
Ideas! Without ideas, well not a lot seems to happen. How often do you hear yourself saying "That gives me an idea" or "Hey, I just thought of something"? It happens more often than we care to admit. This can be the birthplace of many concepts and thoughts that if correctly watered will germinate therefore spreading and gaining momentum to potentially become mountain movers. … [Read more...] about Building Your Ideas for Success
