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Email Interruptions May Lower IQ
Email creats as many challenges as it does solutions. Effectively monitoring and managing your time spent on email is critical if you want to stay productive and focused on what's most important in your busines. Learn what a 2005 study revealed about the impact on IQ, and about some simple things you can do to reduce its distracting influence.

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Fred Smith Has Lift-Off: The Beginnings of Federal Express
“By the early '70s when I'd gotten out of the service it was very clear that this new society was coming in earnest,” recalls Smith. “And so, at that point I said, ‘What the hell, let's try to put it together.’” After leaving the U.S. Marine Corps, Smith purchased a controlling interest in Ark Aviation Sales, a company that focused on aircraft maintenance. This was the first step towards realizing his goal of what would soon become Federal Express.

Diamonds In Your Backyard
This is a story about David. David was a very ambitious and proud man, who was desperate to be very rich. To this end he traveled the globe, spending years away from home searching for a diamond mine. He knew that once he owned a diamond mine his dream of riches would come true. Unfortunately David ended his days neither rich nor happy. After he died the local condominium developer bought David’s property and started to dig the foundation. And what did he find? He found that for all these years David was sitting right on top of a very large, very rich diamond mine. I tell this story to remind us to look first in our own back yards for the glittering opportunities.

Chris Gardner Story
When you first hear the Chris Gardner story, you might think you were hearing the storyline of a Hollywood movie. In fact, the Chris Gardner story was so real that it was turned into a movie, the recently released “The Pursuit of Happyness” starring Will Smith and his real-life son Jaden Smith. But, before becoming the subject of a major motion picture, the Chris Gardner story was one of uncertainty and insecurity.

Are You an Egomaniac? Ten Questions with Steven Smith
Steven Smith has spent the past ten years exploring how great leaders use ego differently than everyone else—how they work, think, collaborate, and who they are. The result of his work is a book he co-authored with David Marcum called egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability). His work has been featured by The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Irish Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Le Figaro. The topic of this interview is one of paramount importance to anyone who wants to change the world: Ego. Too much? Too little? How much is just enough?

How to Give a Guarantee That Attracts New Business... and Doesn't Put You at Risk.
I was working with my client David (not his real name) - the principal of a sports psychology business - to review their marketing program. I asked David "Do you offer a guarantee?" David thought for a moment and then replied, "No... We can't really give a guarantee." >> Do you think the same thing about your business? Read on to find out how to give a guarantee that attracts new business and doesn’t put you at risk.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Branding
What do Apple, Nike, Dyson and the Mini Cooper have in common? Veteran branding expert designer David Brier dissects the key liabilities in creating a world-class killer brand, seven to be exact. Citing information from the Wall Street Journal, David offers a succinct message especially useful in these times when intelligent marketing must be senior to all other efforts a business makes.
US Postal Service, “Do Not Return to Sender” it!
This article is a salute to visionary ultra entrepreneurs such as Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, Fredrick Smith of FedEx, and Bill Hewlett and David Packard founders of HP Corporation. It is also dedicated to the hard working 727,000 employees and Management of US Post Office who have made formidable progress. Hope, still remains that a revolutionary entrepreneurship solution will prevent lay off of these employees.

The most important thing to know about your strategic plan.
As part of the product development process for RapidInfluence we had numerous sessions with individuals both inside and outside of our target market. The purpose of these discussions were to work through the premises of our Strategic Planning Manifesto and to preview the first version of our product. One of the more insightful sessions we had was with Ian Smith of Portfolio Partnership and the author of The Smith Report, a must read for growth companies. In our session we discussed the need for companies to create strategic plans and more importantly to implement them. During our discussion, Ian rightly pointed out that success in strategic plan implementation was largely dependent on knowing what the status of various action items are within the strategic plan.
David Wood - A Worthy Marketing Mentor
You may have had a friend or do have one by the name David Wood. However, he is not the one to be discussed here. Better still, could it be that you heard about one David Wood who is known to be one of the big players on network marketing?
Key 2011 Hacker Prevention Lessons
I recently came across this article on the “Top hacker disasters of 2011”, written by David Aitel of Immunity Inc. David has put together a brilliant article that lists some of the high profile attacks and five lessons to be learned. One key point that you should notice in this article is that there was no single security failure points that caused the company’s breach. The points of attack ranged from technology being cracked to poor security practices within a corporation. After reviewing David’s 5 lessons, I wanted to comment on each to add a little more insight.
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