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Direct From Houston: Dell is Born
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| In 1999, Michael Dell was giving a lecture on the ABCs of entrepreneurship to a business class at his psuedo-alma mater, the University of Texas. When it came time for the question and answer period, one of the students eagerly stood up and asked Dell why, despite being worth over $17 billion, he continues going to work each day. “You’ve got so much money,” the student said. “Why don’t you just sell out, buy a boat, and sail off to the Caribbean?” Dell stared back at the student and replied, “Sailing’s boring. Do you have any idea how much fun it is to run a billion-dollar company?” |
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The Little Bunny that Could: How Playboy Became an Empire
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| “If there was going to be a sexual revolution, I would be its pamphleteer,” Hefner once said. Looking back to the time when Playboy magazine was first launched, not only did Hefner spark a sexual revolution, but he also used his entrepreneurial instincts to capitalize on it. |
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Lesson #5: Go With Your Gut
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| “Experience taught me a few things,” says Trump. “One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.” |
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Lesson #5: Stick To Your Guns
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| Rare is the entrepreneur who has achieved success by simply following the advice of others. Being willing to make unpopular decisions and having the resolve to stick to his decisions even in the face of doubt and criticism was what propelled Hershey to success. His choices were often questioned for their business sense and were thus not always popular with everyone from his wife to his advisors. But, in true entrepreneurial fashion, Hershey stuck to his guns. |
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Lesson #4: Use Your Intuition
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| “I only do what my gut tells me to,” says Lopez. “I think it’s smart to listen to other people’s advice, but at the end of the day, you’re the only one who can tell you what’s right for you.” |
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A Man of Firsts: How Johnson Achieved Success
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| “Retirement is not in this company’s vocabulary,” Johnson once said. “If you are well and able to work, you can stay at the company and that’s what I plan to do.” And, that is exactly what he did. Right up until the time of his death, Johnson continued to play an active role in the company. Although he named his daughter, Linda Johnson Rice, CEO of the company, he remained the inspiration behind its every move. He rose from the despair of welfare to become named the Greatest Minority Entrepreneur in U.S. History by Baylor University in 2003. A true rags to riches story, how did Johnson achieve the American Dream? |
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A Cutting-Edge Career: Cuban Makes It Big
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| After being fired from Your Business Software, Cuban convinced some of its other employees to leave the company and join him in his latest venture, MicroSolutions. It was to be a system integrator and reseller for various IT companies, including IBM and Apple. In just eight years, the company had sold over 500 networks that ranged in size from two to over 1,000 users. By investing in cutting-edge technology and providing outstanding customer service, MicroSolutions had become a major player in the promising new IT industry – so major, that in 1990, Cuban sold the company to CompuServe, Inc. for $6 million. |
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Lesson #1: Keep The Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
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| “In the 1970s, I filled my ranks with managers from all different walks of life who generally were very savvy to the ways of big business,” recalls Vernon, “and they almost killed us.” |
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Lesson #5: Trust Your Gut
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| When Cowell first started out at BMG, he wanted more than anything to produce a hit and prove himself to be a valuable contribution to the company after years of rejection by the industry. Oddly enough, he decided to look in the direction of professional wrestling. His colleagues thought he was crazy, but Cowell had a hunch that if young boys would pay to watch professional wrestling and buy all the related merchandise, they would surely also buy a WWF-themed record sung by the superstar wrestlers themselves. |
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Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The Burger King: Ray Kroc is Born
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| “The two most important requirements for major success,” said Ray Kroc, “are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.” |
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The Business of Beauty: How Ash Changed an Industry
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| Ash once said that “people fall forward to success.” In her case, it seems she didn’t fall so much as she ran towards her dreams. With ambition and determination, Ash created not only a successful billion-dollar company but also one of the few to be featured three times in Fortune magazine’s “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America.” How did Ash break through the glass ceiling of gender discrimination to become a household name around the world? |
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How To Determine What You Want In Life
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| What do you really want in life?
Most people don't discover what they want in life until it's time to die - and that's a shame.
Most people spend the best years of their lives watching television or doing things they dislike. An author described humanity by saying, "Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty." Are you one of the living zombies?
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The intuition vs. analysis conundrum
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| Let's say you've got a really good idea. And you've had good ideas before.
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Chili and Your Intuition - 8 ingredients for making better strategic decisions
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| As a business owner or manager, what you ultimately rely on most when deciding your company’s future, is your intuition. The challenge with so many stakeholders relying on you to make the ‘right’ decision, is ensuring that your instincts are reliable. Effective leaders hone their intuition the way a chef cooks a pot of chili. Like chili, intuition needs to include the right ingredients and then be allowed to simmer a while. Here are eight ingredients for you to stew on... |
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Home Business - Take Advantage of Having Your Own
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| You can build the foundation in your very own home on which to put up your business enterprise. In fact, there are a growing number of entrepreneurs who are now choosing the online route to work in their homes and make money online. Indeed, businesspeople are experiencing again the advantages of having a home-based business. Lots of people want to merge their careers with some downtime and they choose this option to get out of the rat race and spend quality hours with their families. On top of things, the recent technological advances made home businesses more feasible, profitable, and easier. |
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Six bottom-line best practices in recruiting
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| Recruiting strategies may flex and change with economic conditions and in reaction to competitors in the market. But there are certain best practices that are a constant benefit to every organization that adheres to them, whether the economy is up or down. Recruiting excellence has a direct, and positive, impact on the bottom line. Increasing revenue per employee and saving turnover costs are two important benefits. Here are six recruiting best practices that will make a measureable difference in your business. |
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Knowing When To Say YES Or NO
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| With so many invitations and opportunities to grow your business, make money, enhance the quality of your life, knowing when to say yes or no can be confusing and overwhelming. Learn how to make wiser choices. |
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Is It Really Possible To Make Money Online?
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| Is it possible to make money online?The answer is yes,but you have to be careful in choosing business plans because to be honest with you there is so much garbage on the internet as well,so follow your instincts and be prepared to work,because there is nothing as a free ride. |
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Hire Right and Fire Fast- Facing Up to Hiring Mistakes
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| Of course you want the best talent available for your business, with the characteristics and personality that fit your culture. Hiring the “right” people is critical to every organization. In a recession the stakes are even higher: every smart idea to innovate or save costs matters more; and every bit of passion enhances productivity.
There are strong reasons to hire the talent you want quickly, and there are circumstances where it’s okay to take more time. But careful as you might be, you will sometimes make hiring mistakes. And in those cases you have no choice-you have to fire fast.
Read More About
-The case for fast hiring
-When to slow-hire
-Facing up to hiring mistakes
-Fight your instincts |
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Anatomy of a Financial Fraud - Part I
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| The author, John Franczyk, recounts how he and his client uncovered a scheme which, had it been successful, would have defrauded the client ou of several million dollars. |
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Legitimate Internet Marketing Training Company Seen As Fraud?
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| This morning I spent way too much time on the phone with someone that wanted me to convince him that my business would deliver internet marketing training, and was not a scam or a fraud. This person had been to my website..... |
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If I Say Live a Healthy Lifestyle Will You Run The Other Way?
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| It's quite normal to run the other way when someone talks about living a healthy lifestyle. It sounds boring and probably a lot of hard work. You are mistaken, why not find out how Living a Healthy Lifestyle helped me? |
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Trust&Faith vs Fear&Doubt
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| People often behave exactly how we expect them to behave with us.
If we trust, they are trustworthy. |
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The Cost of Lost Sales
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| Accurate inventory stocking according to demand and sales history is vital to reducing lost sales and inventory overhead, thereby increasing profit, customer satisfaction, and loyalty. |
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Socialization and is it all that important?
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| Socialization is extremely critical for human beings, without it life would be dull. In 1938 it was an unfortunate but true case study of this. A girl named Anna was born to a mentally impaired woman that lived with her father. She was sent countless of places but was then returned home due to financial restraints. She was then forced into the attic and was given only enough milk to live on and lived there until she was five. She wasn’t given no affection, no smiles, no hugs, or anything else, just coldness. |
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Paralyzed by Fear
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| Fear can be a useful tool or a crippling enemy in the work environment. Read on to find out how you can turn your fear into a useful, profitable, and conquerable tool. |
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Gather Your Own Information
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| We have become a society terrorized by information overload. There are no longer any mysteries in our surroundings. We are kept aware of everything at the speed of 24 hour news, internet sites, breaking news, severe weather, along with the minutiae of the subtle changes that occur thousands of times per day. Everything in real time. It’s George Orwell's 1984 on steroids. “Big Brother “ is not only watching but he’s reporting. What we have today pales in comparison to the fear instilled in us by that classic novel. |
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Professional Selling
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| Professional selling is the difference between preparation and improvisation.
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Productivity through Chocolate Reflections
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| So there I sat, staring at the candy and trying not to open the first one. (My will power diminishes after eating one.) Of course, I gave in and ate my first one.
I was surprised to see that on the inside of every wrapper are little messages. It is like a chocolate fortune cookie! With every one I opened, I found another productivity thought.
"Get Your Feet Massaged"
Now doesn't that sound wonderful? Chocolate and a massage! But there is a productivity thought here. So many of us work and work and never take time out to recharge. That is what this message is telling us. |
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10 Good Reasons To Turn Down A Job
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| Should you take every job that comes your way? No. Here are 10 good reasons to turn down a job. |
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I Know I’m Here to Do Something Awesome, If I could only Work Out What It Is.
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| How to figure out the awesome thing that you can do, |
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Hit or miss does not work in selling
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| Many sales are lost because salespeople assume they know what the customer wants. Sales people like to made assumptions of knowledge about what the buyer wants and needs, or sometimes more important why the buyer might be motivated to buy. Using one’s instincts and sixth sense is fine in the equation of success, but it should be only part of your expertise. |
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Strategies to Recession Proof Your Business
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| Every small business needs to take a hard look at the status of their business now to make sure it can withstand an economic downturn. The secret is to have your Plan address spots where you may be vulnerable. Prevention definitely beats fixing things after they become difficult to turn around. |
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Five Important Questions To Ask When Your Confidence and Faith is Shaky
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| It’s normal to have those times when self-confidence wanes, fears and doubts creep in and faith gets shaky. Learn how you can shift from doubt and fear to confidence and action. |
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When Web Sites Get Hit, Most Die at the Scene
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| Internet sales and success has been steadily growing for years and continues to grow. Yet most of the millions of web sites are dead, with site owners wondering what went wrong. You have two choices: Be one of those who own a disappointing web site, or sieze the opportunities provided by the fact that most web sites are failing. |
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Four Critical Skills
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| There are four essential skills every leader must hone to become a brilliant leader. Listening. Storytelling. Acknowledging contribution. Negotiation.
You cannot be good enough at these four skills - so every chance you get, practice! |
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Great Leaders Turn Adversity into Advantage
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| As a student of history, and military history in particular, I have always been impressed with the ability of famous leaders to seemingly bounce back from just about any difficulty or adversity. This is also true in the fields of sports, politics and business. In some ways, great leaders are also great survivors. They often thrive on chaos and adversity. No adversity seems too great to prevent them from finding some advantage. While I certainly don’t believe in deliberately creating difficulty, there are nonetheless some principles that you can apply to turn adversity to your advantage. |
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The Flavors of Fear and How to Choose the One That’s Yours
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| We are frequently told about how we should ignore fear and go for what we want and to some extent that’s really true. However, I think fear (like ice-cream) has more than one flavour and some fears can actually help us. There are times when fear is appropriate…like when we are faced with physical danger or someone is threatening one of our nearest and dearest. I like to distinguish between four types of fear. |
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Other instincts Related Articles
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Unnatural Leadership
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| Book Review -- Going Against Intuiting and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts – By David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo; Feb 2002, 280 pages, John Wiley & Sons, 605 Third Street, New York, NY 10158 |
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Lesson #4: Try Something New
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| “Don’t be afraid of the trial-and-error approach,” wrote Lauder in her 1985 autobiography as a piece of advice to would-be entrepreneurs. “Trust your instincts…create your own style.” |
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Can Businesses Afford To Think Like Consumers?
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| It should be no secret that successful business people do not think like consumers. We instinctively know that return on investment is more important than price. In spite of our instincts, there are those who would treat us like consumers, and we must avoid the folly they would otherwise plunge us into. |
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Is It Really Possible To Make Money Online?
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| Is it possible to make money online?The answer is yes,but you have to be careful in choosing business plans because to be honest with you there is so much garbage on the internet as well,so follow your instincts and be prepared to work,because there is nothing as a free ride. |
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Entrepreneurship – Trust your Instincts
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| When running an entrepreneurship, developing your instincts can be a great asset for you. To develop this skill, start observing different situations. Use your instincts to take risks – big or small. Even if you don’t succeed, you will learn a lesson that you can use throughout your life.
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Innovation and Leadership Tips from Jack Welch
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| Jack Welch may be the most talked about and widely emulated manager in business history. Using instincts and unique leadership strategies, he increased the market value of General Electric by more than $400 billion over two decades. So when Jack talks, I listen. |
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Behavioural Intelligence – Modelling Excellent Behaviour
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| There is only one person you can directly control and be responsible for – you. Behavioural Intelligence is about taking charge of your behaviour and deciding what is most useful, appropriate and constructive to say or do next. If you decide while you’re doing it or saying it - it’s too late. The most skilled practitioners interrupt their instincts and make a conscious decision about their next behaviour. |
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Experienced human resources expertise
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| If someone tells you there is only one way to do something...run! No seriously, ask some clarifying questions. Is there only one way for legal, performance or other reasons? Why is there only one way? Make sure you understand the reason and that it makes good business sense - or don't do it. Trust the instincts that have made you successful to this point. |
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Are You Living In Stress City?
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| Most people think stress is a killer. It can be, but only in excessive amounts. You may know someone who says they "thrive on stress," and though your friend may just be an adrenaline junkie, the same could be said of the human race. Stress gets our attention, and switches on the "fight or flight" instincts that were key to our ancestors' survival.... |
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6 Steps to Creating a Successful Life
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| We all possess creativity; it’s actually in our very nature. Unfortunately many of us where told in the early parts of our lives that we were not creative, and we probably believed it. As a result of this our natural creative instincts were suppressed. Luckily by following these 6 simple steps they can be reawakened. |
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