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Launching A Revolution: The Start of Microsoft
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| When Gates and Allen saw a picture of the Altair 8080 on the cover of Popular Electronics, they knew their lives were going to be different. They recognized that the home computer market was about to explode and that they had the opportunity to be at the forefront of it all. Immediately, Gates called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the company that was manufacturing the Altair, and told them that he and Allen had developed a programming language for the computer. |
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Opening New Windows: How Gates Soared to Incredible Heights
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| Though he never set out to be a millionaire, Gates not only became the world’s first centibillionaire in 1999, but also one of the world’s most respected entrepreneurs for having revolutionized the world of computers and setting new industry standards. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,” recalls Gates. How did he do manage to turn those dreams into reality? |
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Lesson #4: Get Hooked Up
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| “I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been,” he said. |
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Pulling The Right Strings: How Henson Achieved Success
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| “When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show,” Henson recalled. “I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.” It is with thankfulness from children around the world that Henson’s interests changed over time. Such familiar characters as Kermit the Frog, Ernie, Rowlf the dog, and Miss Piggy have since become ingrained in the national psyche. Henson revolutionized the worlds of children’s television and puppeteering and had a blast along the way. How did he do it? |
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Lesson #2: Always Choose Action Over Inaction
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| “Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business,” said Watson. By the time he had given up control, Watson had created one of the largest and most powerful companies in the entire country; and it wasn’t by sitting still and letting opportunities pass him by that he was able to do so. |
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Lesson #5: Make Integrity an Integral Part of Your Company
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| “It is easy to be big in big things, in big moments, when everyone is watching,” noted Watson Jr. “Real character emerges in the way we meet our routine, everyday obligations. Really big people are, above everything, courteous, considerate, and generous, not just to some people, in some circumstances, but to everyone all the time. One of the reasons we are known as a great company is that we are known as a company made up of people like that.” |
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Lesson #3: Go Big or Go Home
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| “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business,” Kroc once said. He didn’t build a franchise empire with over 3,000 stores in just ten years by sitting back and repeating the same formula that had worked once over and over again. Instead, Kroc strove to constantly improve his company and retain his place at the forefront of the industry by taking advantage of new opportunities. Even when there was big risk involved, Kroc stared the gamble in the face and rolled the dice. |
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Lesson #2: Make Creativity the Centre of Your Company
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| “It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have ideas,” says Roddick. “That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.” |
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Russell Simmons Divorce
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| In 2006, it made headlines in the worlds of fashion and hip hop as two of the people at the forefront of both were splitting up. They were big celebrities, used to living a big life, and now, Russell Simmons’ divorce from model Kimora Lee was big news. After eight years of marriage and two daughters later, the hip hop moguls were ending things. “Kimora and I will remain committed parents and caring friends with great love and admiration for each other,” Simmons said at the time of the announcement. “We will also continue to work side by side on a daily basis as partners in all of our business.” |
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Lesson #3: Make Your Company a Lean, Mean, Operating Machine
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| Helu dislikes being compared to Warren Buffett, not because he does not admire the American investor’s long list of shrewd business acquisitions, but rather because he feels it is an inadequate assessment. When Helu takes over control of a company, he does so in order to operate it. Buffett wants a good investment, but Helu wants to run a company. He wants to make his companies practical and lean operations, bringing efficiency to their every move. And, most importantly, he wants to do it himself. |
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Shopping For Success: How Sinegal Took Costco to the Top
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| When Sinegal’s college presented him with its Most Distinguished Alumnus award, the Costco founder was almost left speechless. “I’ve never been told I’m a most distinguished anything,” was all he could say. With his poor grades and lack of focus in high school, it is doubtful that Sinegal’s teachers ever thought he would amount to much. But, today, with a billion dollar corporation under his belt, Sinegal remains not only one of the most accomplished, but also one of the most admired and liked CEOs in the industry. How did this once reckless young boy become the success he is today? |
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Lesson #1: Plan for the Long Run If You Want to Run Long
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| Hunting was nothing new, and neither was hiking. Both had been around for as long as man and Bean knew it. His business had sprung up from a need that was not being met – getting wet feet in the great outdoors. It was a need that had not been met for centuries past, and one that would need to keep being met for years ahead. Bean knew that if he played his cards right, his company could be at the forefront of meeting that need for the foreseeable future, and beyond. Indeed, it was Bean’s long term vision and planning that explains the company’s continued success. |
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Lesson #5: Use Training To Keep Your Company Current
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| One of the reasons why Jenny Craig’s weight loss program has always been at the forefront of the industry is because is has always been at the forefront of new research and training. From its initial inception, Craig wanted to make sure that her company had not only the most highly skilled staff on board, but that their program was informed by the most current weight loss trends. To that end, employee training became a crucial component of Jenny Craig. |
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Todd McFarlane Quotes
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| Todd McFarlane Quotes |
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MySpace Mavericks: How Two Friends Found Their Fortune
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| “It's certainly nice to make money off of it and become financially successful,” says DeWolfe, “but really the fun of it was to build the site and that continues to be the fun of it.” Anderson echoes the sentiment: “I’d like to do this as long as it’s fun, and that could be a long, long time.” They started off as two men who shared nothing but a love of indie music, a distaste for authority, and a simple idea for a website. So, how did these fast friends find themselves not only in the pages of Fortune magazine but also at the forefront of an Internet revolution? |
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Tuning into the Future: How Sarnoff Engineered Success
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| Sarnoff rose from poor immigrant, to office boy, to communications manager, to president of one of the most successful companies of his time, and all because he asked himself one simple question: what’s next? How did Sarnoff always seem to find the next big thing? |
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Turning Problems into Marketing Strategies
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| Most industries impose an unseen tax on participants trying to stand out, go against that grain or do the right thing or hard thing. |
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Why Companies Should Embrace Social Media Marketing
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| Online users are flocking to Social Media sites in their millions; "net savvy" marketers are busy looking into ways and means of capitalizing on these mass markets and are at the forefront implementing marketing strategies that are designed to be cost effective and easy to change when market dictates.
The bottom line is that online and offline companies are waking up to the fact that they need to appeal to Internet users in many ways if they want to get their piece of the internet pie.
In this article I look at a few of the strategies that anyone looking to get into the social media scene should consider. |
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How to Develop the Entrepreneurial Mindset and succeed in your online business
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| How do you develop the entrepreneurial mindset? Are there a set number of tangible steps to reaching the goals you have set? This is my analysis of what are the most important facets of the mindset that are necessary to really succeed in your home based online business. |
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Working from home with The Barefoot Millionaires! Today�s topic: 6 Secrets to Getting Ahead
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| Success in any business demands that you take 100% responsibility for your career, but this is especially true with a home based business. Many successful home based entrepreneurs are doing just that; read over the following six maxims to be sure you are one of them. |
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The Two Most Devastating Vanity Goals
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| There are two common goals that are promoted in American society more than any other to the point that people believe they are concrete and valuable goals to achieve. Most importantly, most devastating, is that these goals are so superficial and irrelevant, but negatively mind altering, that a person or business cannot do anything but fail trying to meet them. And if they are achieved, they are done so at the peril of a person's character and integrity. These are called "vanity goals", goals that should be avoided at all costs if you want your personal and business lives to succeed and make a difference. This article describes the two most common vanity goals that have caused the most destruction by far in our society. Free your mind of these and you lay the course to achieve real purpose. |
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Qualities of Peak Performers
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| For more than 25 years I have worked with people in various stages of achieving their success. I have studied their behaviors and actions, the choices they made and which of them succeeded to become Peak Performers in their lives. |
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How to Use Social Media to Market Your Book
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| Social media web sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and even MySpace, can be perfect places to market a book. If you are already connected to the online networking and media world, stay there, and start promoting your work. If you are not connected, consider adding a few of the following strategies to your marketing tool kit.
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Sustainable Issues And Business Opportunities
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| With all the news of our planet being in such an environmental crisis, it is enough to make one's head spin. Here is how to select an issue and build your business, product or career around creating solutions for it. |
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VictimVictorious
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| What is it that makes us tell our ‘victim story’ instead of a victorious one where we are in the driver’s seat of our choices as to how we handle what comes our way? |
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Ponzi Schemes and Steroids These are the Days of our Lives
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| When you step back and look at the leading economy of the world (the US economy), you can’t help but think that we have come to one “MAJOR FORK IN THE ROAD”. The purchase of a home can be like a ball and chain that prevents people from reaching their full potential in some cases. If 2008 is not a wakeup call to understand finance better, then the future of the U.S. economy is in for even further long term challenges.
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Minor offenses and your premiums
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| Discussing how auto insurance premiums are affected by Motor Vehicle Violations. |
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As Belts Tighten Online Marketing Continues To Expand
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| What will be the impact of the global economic crisis on how businesses market themselves. The prediction is that the current trend to online consuming will rapidly accelerate over the coming year. It is also predicted that online marketing, due to its cost effectiveness and the ability to track and measure return on investment, will soar as well. |
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Entrepreneurs - How Do You Set Your Prices?
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| You’ve set up your new business or you have an established business with new products, so you come across that age old problem – how do you price them? |
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Leadership in Troubled Times
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| Leadership has never been more important or more difficult; this article offers some perspective and 7 to do's to stay the course. |
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How to shop for a graphic design firm (be an educated consumer)
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| It is becoming more and more obvious to companies that design plays an enormous role in driving business. Successful business owners already know this, but for those who are just opening their eyes to the concept, how do you get started? What are the considerations when bringing on strategic design services? |
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Use Email Marketing To Keep Customers Buzzing About Your Business
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| Email marketing can be used as an effective tool for communicating with customers. Its is an effective medium of communication to boost sales by ensuring that your customers constantly remember you. |
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The Mind of the Customer
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| Providers of key business or mission critical solutions must engage and connect with their customers on a higher level. A standard supplier relationship will simply not generate or sustain that vital degree of trust. |
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Sales Resistance and the Recession - 7 Steps to Turn Prospects Around
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| You learned the three R's when you were in grade school but selling in today's economy is about two R's - resistance and recession - and they are related. While resistance is always lurking in the background, the recession brings it to the forefront and your salespeople must be able to sell - despite it. Learn how your salespeople can get it turned around in this article. |
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The Value of Feedback
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| What do you think about feedback? Do you recognize your staff and acknowledge others for what they do well on a regular basis? Do you use feedback as a positive tool to grow your business or do you avoid it at all costs? |
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Speaking Personally - 3 Questions & Answers
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| 3 Questions to ask yourself when preparing to give any kind of talk or presentaion. |
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Bumping Into Your Organization’s Values
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| If you asked employees to recite the organization's values could they? More importantly do those values instantly determine their course of action? This article will help you better integrate your values into the culture. |
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Make 2008 your best year ever
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| Powerful tips to make 2008 your best year ever |
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VII D. Promote Institutional Investors: PROMOTING STOCK MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
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| The involvement of institutional investors in African exchanges must be pursued vigorously.
Institutional investors often are at the forefront in promoting efficient market practices and
financial innovation. |
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Lesson #5: Use Training To Keep Your Company Current
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| One of the reasons why Jenny Craig’s weight loss program has always been at the forefront of the industry is because is has always been at the forefront of new research and training. From its initial inception, Craig wanted to make sure that her company had not only the most highly skilled staff on board, but that their program was informed by the most current weight loss trends. To that end, employee training became a crucial component of Jenny Craig. |
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VII D. Promote Institutional Investors: PROMOTING STOCK MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
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| The involvement of institutional investors in African exchanges must be pursued vigorously.
Institutional investors often are at the forefront in promoting efficient market practices and
financial innovation. |
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Improving Your Work "Environment": Is It Truly Easy Being "Green"?
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| The environment. Being "green". Climate change. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon taxes. David Suzuki. Al Gore. All are at the forefront of almost every media outlet these days. In this article we discuss the "greening" of your HR practices and why it's important for the growth and bottom line of your business.
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Business Ownership The American Dream
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| What is it that attracts more and more people to become business owners? What happens to bring that Entrepreneurial spirit to the forefront?
Not only do Entrepreneurs embody the American Dream, they drive our economy and our future. |
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Protecting Your Employees and Company in the Face of Big Labor's Ambitious Legislative Agenda
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| Changes in labor laws are only a few months away. With the incoming Democratic administration and Congress, these laws that were once on the back burner are now at the forefront. Be ready for these changes, and this article will help you prepare so none of the impending changes will affect your organization. |
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Using the Theory of Constraints in Marketing
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| You can think of the stories of Toyota and GE that have brought Lean and Six Sigma to the forefront but this was about a fiction story. One of my favorite questions to ask people is do you remember the main character's name? Few do, but when asked is they remember the Constraint's name or the boy scout who could not keep up on the walk, they blurt out: Herbie! |
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Structures to help you remember
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| In order to MAKE the change, you need to REMEMBER to do it. Good intentions aren’t enough.
Life is busy! I get that. So, how do you remember to keep the key actions, habits, and changes for success in the forefront? |
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Merchant Services for your Online Business
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| Ok you got the sale, now how are your customers going to pay for the product? This is something that is not on the forefront of your mind. Determine how your customers are going to pay for the goods and services that you sold them. |
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Why you need to get your legal agreements sorted for 2011
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| Normally when I go on holiday I think very little of things like travel insurance and the terms and conditions of my airline ticket. But as I sit here contemplating whether to board a plane this evening to snow covered London, these two documents are at the forefront of my mind.
We all need to adopt the same approach to documentation in our businesses and below explain why.
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The Importance of Succession Planning
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| The resignation of Steve Jobs as the CEO of Apple has brought the subject of Succession Planning to the forefront of conversation.
This article explores the importance of succession planning to organisations |
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