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You will only be as successful as the people you associate with the most. So take a look around you and see if you are living up to your potential or limiting yourself to the potential of your closest friends. If not, you might want to consider a change in your social scene. Don't let your current close associates be the ones that are pulling you down or holding you back from reaching your highest dreams and goals.

What Do YOU See When You Look In The Mirror?
To reach the top of any endeavor it pays to be focused, determined, confident, courageous and energetic. But for those of us who have higher aspirations and dreams are YOU REALLY doing enough on your success quest?

Lesson #1: “Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers.”
Marriott got to where he did in the business world by relying on a strong team of colleagues and employees around him. He rose through the ranks by focusing on honing his managerial skills, by ensuring that he was building the best possible team around him.

J. Willard Marriott Quotes
J. Willard Marriott Quotes

The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing

Lois Kelly is the author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. This is her explanation of the top nine types of stories that people like to talk about. If you’re pitching your company to investors, customers, partners, journalists, vendors, or employees and you don’t use at least one of these story lines, you probably have a problem. And most likely you’re too close to what you’re doing, so you think that you’re uniquely “patent-pending, curve-jumping, and revolutionary.” :-)

Me and 85 Broads
I'm told it was more like 75 young women in the room, but the potential and energy I felt there was certainly much much more.

Find the Greatness within Yourself
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo

Make It Happen in Your Life
In a recent issue of Business Week magazine, I was voted, by their readers, as "the world's most competitive businessperson" and voted by the staff and writers of Business Week as one of the top 10 most competitive businesspeople on the planet. To me, that is a great honor. It also underscores why I emphasize taking the initiative in order to "make it happen in your life."

100 Ways to Succeed #83
Don't Forget Why You're Here!

The Fifth Deadly Workplace Sin: Sloth
Recently, I read an article from Careerbuilder.com about the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. Last time, I gave you my take on Greed. This morning, it’s all about Sloth.

The Sixth Deadly Workplace Sin: Gluttony
Recently, I read an article from Careerbuilder.com about the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. Last time, I gave you my take on Sloth. Today, it’s all about Gluttony.

Can Anyone Be A Major League Pitcher?
Alan Shimel has a fantastic post up titled Do they have to grow up? As I read it, I thought of some of the great lessons my dad taught me when I was a little kid and how hard they must have been for him to carry out.

Entrepreneur Profile: Sospeter Amenya

Sospeter Amenya of BenCro Transition Designs is a Kenyan social entrepreneur whose work mainly involves designing websites and developing custom software to help in various aspects that are aimed at creating more opportunities for the impoverished society. We at the Youth Interactive Portal for Enterprise (YIPE) recently got a chance to interview him regarding the importance of determination to venture into enterprise as well as his future aspirations.

Daydreaming – Is It Good For You?
Did you know that daydreams can have some big benefits? Today researchers know that daydream content helps you map onto your mind everyday goals, aspirations and even apprehensions.

Lesson #4: Go for the biggest challenge you can
“United Spirits, with all its brands…with a huge market share, was addressing the opportunities in India going forward,” says Mallya. “But focusing on the Indian consumer and growing aspirations, it was extremely clear to me that one day the youngsters would start demanding scotch whiskey.”

Tips on taking your thought leadership campaign to market: Two - audience
This is the second in a series of six articles on how to take your thought leadership campaign to market

Are Shifting Rules and Government Investment in Canadian Firms the Real Obstacle to Foreign VC Funding?
Every time we make an investment in a Canadian company or do some sort of transaction with a Canadian company we have a whole set of "surprises" (and I put quotes around the word surprises) that we have to figure out each time, so there is always a new set, or different set of rules that we have to go through . . .

IS THERE A RIGHT TIME FOR PR?
At Kathryn Kates Public Relations we find the right time for PR is NOW!

What is personal development plan?
If you desire to have skills and experience to enhance individual performance and self-perception, you are going to need a personal development plan. It serves as a map of your self-development journey, gearing towards achievement of aspirations.

Internet Marketing Training Can Help You Achieve Online Success
You can accelerate your online success with great internet marketing training. Without it you can toil away for hours making mistakes that will get you no where.

Communicate! Enough with the Sweet Talk!
Communication in any type of successful sales situation is a key component. If you can't communicate effectively, then it's likely the attention span of your prospect will wander.

Building Confidence In Employees Is A Key Management Role
As a manager, you need people around you who are able, focused and above all have the confidence to be amazing. The challenge is, just how can you go about building confidence in your employees...

Honoring our Country's Wingmen on Veteran's Day
The best way we can thank our veterans is to make them proud of us through our own personal commitment, courage, and compassion. We need to be warriors for freedom and do the right thing by living with honor.

When Everyone Is Right, Who's Wrong? Uncovering the Mystery of Perceptual Styles
Each of us perceives the world differently, not only because of differing perceptual styles, but also because of the various circumstances, goals, aspirations, ages and lifestyles we have. These individual experiences create different realities, each of which represents only part of the whole picture.

Is the customer always right?
There is a power in being wrong, it demonstrates you're endowed with substance and character, certainly enough, to not indulge in the delusion of being perfect. Let's be honest, we all make mistakes, of course we do, some big and some small, but still all.

Losing friends and family for your pursuit.
There is something that has always bothered me and it was the constant reminder that you will have to change your friends if you want to succeed.

Why You Are Who You Are

The main reason why you are who you are is YOU. No matter how you became who you are or gotten where you are, staying there is your own choice, your own decision. Leaders were not born successful; instead they set a goal for themselves accompanied by a course of actions that is focused, enduring and persist long after their goal attainment. How could you claim of being in charge financially, professionally, and socially when aspirations and basic enjoyment of life remains exclusively restricted to the fantasies of TV drama and shadowy darkness of dreams................

Could Now Be The Perfect Time to Consider a Move Out Of Management Consulting?
With the economy the way it is, your consulting career is probably at a crossroads. The key question is - which way next?

Improving the Bottom Line With Qualification
Given all of this information, even the least experienced seller can figure where the sweet spot is - in terms of benefit, quality, risk management and price. Now the challenge is deciding what to do with the information.

Who is your 'brochure' written for?
We are sick of apologising for our businesses not being able to live up to false expecations and promises too frequently splashed about with gay abandon in the marketing materials, annual report, PR hype et al that we are required to use.

People rarely buy what they need if you can sell them what they really want
In parts of poverty stricken African it's a very different story; people buy and barter in exchange for what they need to survive on a daily basis.

Does Age Matter?
There is a lot of talk about age these days. People talk about the X and Y Generation, the Baby Boomers and recently I have heard the expression, igeneration!!! Then there is the ageism debate and Governments bringing in legislation to make employers employ people of all ages.

Surviving Redundancy
The numbers are growing. We all know someone who has been laid off and become yet another statistic in today's economic climate. You are not alone and taking appropriate steps now will better position you to cope with your own redundancy, and possibly even turn it to your advantage. However unlikely the prospect may seem, being prepared is the first step towards surviving redundancy.

Balancing Work and Life
A physician said to me in 1986, after I had first started my own business for three years: "There is more to life than working hard and making money." Now, I'm seeing his protege at the same office. My former physician passed on. But his words stay for me. I miss him.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention: An Entrepreneurial Call to Arms
Calling all entrepreneurs, we have to take matters into our own hands. Credit has dried up, commerce appears to be paralyzed, but not our spirits. The vision of hope lies with the entrepreneurial spirit. I know that in crisis, there are also possibilities and solutions.

The Lost Art of Connecting
No doubt, we live in a mega-connected world. . Linked in, Face book, three email accounts, blogs galore, Blackberries, instant messaging, real-time stock updates, photo downloads from outer space. Most of us are so connected we couldn’t disconnect if we tried (lest we stare down the dark tunnel of technology withdrawals). But I am talking about connecting vs. being connected (read wired).

How to Get Back to Work in Todays Market
The numbers are growing. We all know someone who has been laid off and become yet another statistic in today’s economic climate. You are not alone and taking appropriate steps now will better position you to cope with your own redundancy, and possibly even turn it to your advantage. However unlikely the prospect may seem, being prepared is the first step towards surviving redundancy.

Dare to Dream Its the First Step
Do you remember your childhood dreams of career choices, the man/woman of your dreams, or the prized sports car? Did you replace them with new dreams as you got older as most people do? Have you attained your dreams? If not, why?

7 + 1 Criteria, business owners should use, when selecting Sales & Marketing Consultant

What makes you different? How do I know I will get value from your services? Why should I use your services, as opposed to someone else? These are questions that I get constantly. I am sure that in your business you get equivalent questions. This article objectively looks at criteria you should use for choosing services like my company's. I would strongly advise you to use this as a template for the products and services that you sell. Do they have a passion to succeed in their own business, which will reflect on what they do for my Business?

People with Goals and Dreams
People with dreams and goals succeed because of one primary reason: They know where they're going. In any game, you must determine what winning means to you -- you gotta define success and you also have to determine what it will take to win.

Creating the right ‘Value Perception’ for your Customers
Value Perception (VP) is the opinion your potential and current customers have of your product or service. This perception determines the value it adds to them in line with the problems it needs to solve or aspirations they want it to fulfill. Also evaluated is your offering’s relevance and importance, over and above that of your competitors.

The Three Most Important Leadership Qualities in Small Business.
If your goal is to grow your small business, these three leadership qualities are essential for any battle plan. This article shows you how adopting vision, courage, and integrity can help you leap forward to growth and success.

Are you Proactive or Procreactive™?
Experience tells me that the primary force separating successful from unsuccessful people is action. Successful people act, while unsuccessful people don’t. Achievers do what failures beg off doing. Chinese proverbs put it this way: “Talk will not cook rice,” or “Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth will wait a very, very long time.”

Goal setting advice from the late John Updike
The importance of setting specific goals

Life a Balancing Act
Misti discusses how to obtain work life balance

Make Smart Career Choices In 2009
When planning your next career move, look for trends that will possibly require your present skills and abilities. Most likely you will need some addition education or training, but it will be focused in the right area. Look for the “sunrise” jobs (the new hot jobs with a growing demand) This article will spark some ideas which will help you focus on making smart career choices.

Assessing Your Progress
I'm not a big fan of New Years resolutions. Sure I've made dozens of them, all with good intentions and a bit of magical thinking, believing this time the resolution will stick. Maybe a few have, but generally these wishful self-promises end up broken. And when that happens my self-esteem suffers.

The Power of Thought to Make it All Happen
Use the power of your thoughts to create and fulfill all your outrageous possibilities.

Diligence
Diligence is the byproduct of successful planning.

How to protect your great business idea
One of the things that new business owners tend to be very scared of is someone else stealing their business idea. After all, they’ve spent a lot of time, effort, energy and money developing the idea and the last thing they want is someone stealing the business idea and developing it instead.

THE VALUE OF A PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
I am sure that all of you who work in a corporate environment are familiar with your corporate mission statement? It is the one that typically hangs in the front reception area or perhaps on the wall in the boardroom. But do you have a personal mission statement and/or understand in a meaningful way what your purpose for living actually is?

THE POWER OF COMMITMENT
Successful people understand and use the power of commitment

I Wish I Knew When I was Starting my Business
I wish I knew that someone distinguished business for me when I was younger. It would have made my life much simpler. But, like with all things in life, the most valuable information arrives at exactly the right time we need it to. It is my intention that this story arrives for you at exactly the right time.

What do I need to grow my business?

There are now over 1 million self-employed women in the UK, and whilst over 70% own their own businesses, less than 20% of those have employees. Some might argue that women don’t want to grow big businesses, but it’s not true for many female entrepreneurs today. So what will encourage women to grow their businesses to a size that contributes to the economy by providing jobs for others? Read this article to find out more....

Is Your Vision 20/20?
Just as important as visual sight is for your life, a vision for your self and business is just as critical to achieving your goals. Here are 4 easy steps towards creating a powerful vision for your business.

Thicken The Skin
There's a line in the movie Gracie that I love. Gracie is a teenager in the 70s who is competing for a spot on the boy's high school varsity soccer team. In one scene, dejected and on the verge of giving up, her mother, played by Elizabeth Shue, tells her, "If you want to limit yourself, that's fine. But don't let other people do it for you."

COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF YOUR SERVICES CREATING A NEW REALITY

By John Doerr “…but I know it when I see it.” - Potter Stewart, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court In writing his ruling on pornography, Justice Stewart probably sounded like so many of the clients you work with as a professional service provider. Since you are selling something clients cannot see or touch, they have a hard time knowing exactly what they are buying and what value they will get in return.

RAIN SELLING HOW RAINMAKERS LEAD SALES CONVERSATIONS

By Mike Schultz and John Doerr Sales Conversations for Services To advance in their careers and become Rainmakers (those people at services companies that bring in the new clients and revenue), professionals such as accountants, lawyers, management consultants, and technology consultants eventually need to excel at selling professional services. Rarely, however, are these poor souls given a primer on rainmaking, especially when it comes to leading sales conversations and sales meetings. As a result, they often just 'wing it' and learn by doing, making many avoidable mistakes and losing opportunities to win new clients.

What it Takes to Excel as a Manager
When you are an employee, your performance is based on what you do. However, now that you have been promoted and have the responsibility of managing others, your performance is no longer about you. It is about your ability to accomplish through others. This is how you will be judged. Discover six concepts that you may want to embrace as a new manager.

What REALLY Matters?
Knowing what REALLY matters to you is a key to living a fulfilling life. Here are some important questions to ask yourself.

Aspirations
Thought Propulsion for December, 2007

What are the 3 biggest challenges faced by supply chain/purchasing professionals today? (Survey Result 21)
There are many factors both internally as well as externally that are affecting supply chain/ procurement practices today. From the growing talent vacuum to the continuing lack of collaboration between Finance, IT and Purchasing relative to corporate initiatives. What in your own experiences and opionions are the top 3 issues that procurement professionals face?

Effective Use of Corporate Events and Public Relations
Whatever you are promoting, you need to explain to your audiences on an emotional level. This article explains the how-to.

Writing Your Lust-For-Life List
Some refer this as the Bucket List; meaning the things you want to do before you ‘kick the bucket’ and leave this Earth. The ‘Bucket List’ was a film, starring jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, and it initiated a flurry of interest for writing such a collection of dreams and desires.

Mentoring: A Key Strategy for Professional and Organizational Success

In this fast paced, high stress, highly competitive marketplace, individuals and organizations are looking for avenues to increase productivity and decrease stress. As technology and information overwhelms us, we often need to go back to basic answers to solve our most complex issues. Mentoring is one of the basic foundations that can address both the individual and organizational needs of our time.

SETTING THE RIGHT GOALS
If we don't have a clear idea of our goals, our lives can become rather aimless. A coach or a close associate can encourage you to have an aspiration and be motivated. Being clear of our goals, is one of the most powerful motivating factors. Nothing will come of nothing. Dare Mighty Things (Shakespeare)

A Spotlight On Commitment
How committed are you to everything you do or are you just playing lip service to the whole thing? How can you back the sentiment up with effort? Do you really want to achieve it?

Self-Doubt -- Motivation
A doubt is just a feeling of uncertainty; it has no proof underpinning it. If a doubt has no basis , then it is a hindrance. Once you have pure and sincere motivation, all the rest follows. The prime mover of every action is the motivation or the determination.

Love and leadership the love that dare not speak its name
It’s commonly said of leadership, ‘They don’t need to like you. They do need to respect you.’ But, what about the other way around? Do leaders need to like the people they lead? One school of thought goes further and says if you don’t love the people you lead, you’ll never be a great leader. In this short article, leadership author Phil Dourado explains

Time for Action!
As a busy coach I am lucky enough to be in a position where, on a daily basis, the fascinating people I work with tell me all about their big dreams, grand plans and compelling goals. Dreams, plans and goals that they have possibly never shared with another living soul. And I can tell you that there are some amazing potential futures out there for these people!

WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT DIRECT MARKETING?
The great thing about direct marketing is that it can be anything you want it to be.

Choose Your Focus
Focus can have a massive impact on our goals, beliefs and achievements. What we choose to focus on impacts on our beliefs and aspirations.

Failure or Feedback You choose
This article takes a closer look at failure and offers a different perspective. We are always at choice - so choose to see failure as feedback and move forwards with strength and determination.

Conclusion: Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises in the southern and eastern African region
Enterprises that are about to grow and employ 5-15 people and enterprises that are in the process of growing and employ 10-30 people, both claim that their most important constraint is short- and long-term capital.

Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises in the southern and eastern African region

In its efforts to promote the creation of quality jobs within the small- and medium-scale enterprise sector, the Regional Project Office for the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program in Harare, Zimbabwe has undertaken two studies aiming to find out what growth-oriented enterprises look like and how the ILO can assist them in their aspirations to grow. This article presents the key findings from the latter of these two studies.

Working Her Way Out of Poverty
Kishwar's story - Pakistan

1.7 Promoting entrepreneurship: Working Out of Poverty
The tools developed by the ILO to promote micro and small enterprises can be targeted to meet the needs of the poorest.

Preface: Working Out of Poverty
This is my third opportunity to offer the Director-General’s Report to the International Labour Conference. The first, Decent work,revisited our mandate, interpreted it and defined our mission for the world of today, based on ILO values. You subscribed to the agenda we set out, which affirmed that the ILO had to be concerned with all workers, including those beyond the formal labour market.

The Online Advertising Road Map or Basic Steps for an Efficient Online Promotion Plan Starting from Ground Zero
This article tries to offer a brief description of how online advertising works and how entrepreneurs can benefit from it, summing up the steps that need to be taken from the start-up of a business.

Work-Life Balance should be Life-Work Balance - what do you reckon?

We hear so much these days about the work-life balance, but isn't that bit of jargon putting up a barrier right from the start? Surely life and all that it entails should be the priority, work is merely part of life. A major part of life for many people I know and I don't mean to diminish its value, by the way. Walt Disney kind of summed this up when he said: "We don't make movies to make money. We make money to make movies."

Strategic Thinking Tactics - Time To Be A Visionary Leader
Strategic thinking is an approach or a perspective that any manager needs to adopt while thinking about their business organization into the future. It is an indispensable method to learn how to convert long-terms aspirations and goals into reality.

People With Self Confidence Get Noticed
Those people who do not have self confidence end up not achieving very much in life. On the other hand, those who possess a good level of self confidence achieve many things; their aspirations, goals and dreams.

Marketing is complex - Sales is much easier!
What are you goals and aspirations? And how do you see me helping you get there? What do you think I need to start, stop and continue doing? If I could wave a magic wand over your busienss and grant you one with what would that be?

Walking Your Talk & Running Away With Your Ideas
Eric Clapton sang the definitive song ‘Change The World’. It is about making way for your dreams and aspirations. The Buddha taught: ‘Do good. Be good.’ How do express your ideas and business intent?

Personal Development Plans...Do they work?
Most of us have personal development plans regarding our careers, relationships and self improvement but many of us lose sight of our aspirations as a result of us getting caught up in the daily trappings of everyday life. We all have infinite potential but few of us make the most of what we have got.

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