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Angel Investors - Due Diligence
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| Due diligence is the process of researching an opportunity to come to a decision whether an investment should be made or not. There are typically 5 key areas that angel investors will look at in their due diligence: People, Product, Sales, Financials, Legal. |
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GOAL Setting for the Key Areas of Your Life!
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| If Goal Setting (and Getting) is capable of making you more effective in your business, then surely it makes sense to apply this same skill to every important aspect of your life.
In this template, we provide you with a system for setting those personal Goals that will make sure that, once attained, your Financial Freedom is but the means to enjoy the things that really matter in your life.
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Increase the Effectiveness and Profitability of your Business
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| Do you want to improve the effectiveness and profitability of your business? Of course you do! The fact is that organizations small and large that are in alignment in seven key areas have a critical competitive advantage over their competitors that do not. Developing and or strengthening these key areas is something that will yield you a huge return! |
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Achieve Greater Success Through Three Key Areas Of Performance
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| Do you want to be happier and more satisfied in your roles, business or personal? If you manage people, do you want them to be more effective and achieve higher performance? Learn how to apply three key areas of human performance to get you or your people to the next level. |
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The Dark Side
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| How well can we manage ourselves, our teams and businesses in a crisis or tough times?
Are our actions and behaviours putting us, our people and our businesses at risk?
As leaders and managers we are on show and our actions often speak louder than our words. In challenging times this is even more evident. Under pressure cracks may appear and our leadership is put to the test.
How do we cope under pressure? What happens to us when we crack? When placed under high levels of pressure, most people will rely on coping mechanisms or their strengths that help them manage in day to day activities, but due to the pressure they can actually become counterproductive tendencies. We refer to these as “risk factors” and they can emerge as our dark side. |
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How To Evaluate the Six Key Areas Top Producers Focus On For Your Internet Business
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| There are six key areas that the top Internet business leaders and producers focus on in their lives and businesses. There is, however, a final key: evaluation of performance and productivity. You and your business may be unbalanced. As you become balanced or harmonious in each sector, each one will start to grow organically with the others and the increase in growth will begin to speed up. Try this exercises to see what you need to refocus on to get your business growing.
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Rejection Pain
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| The link between physical pain and the pain we experience when we are rejected. Fascinating similarities. |
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"Our salespeople aren't asking for the business!"
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| Some may find the concept of salespeople not asking for the business, strange even ridiculous given 'the close' has traditionally been a salesperson's end-game. This is analogous to a football player running down the sideline, struggling to avoid the clutches of would-be tacklers - to just sit down on their bum and scratch their head an inch before the goal line. It's just doesn't make sense, yet in sales, this type of conducts is surprisingly common. |
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4 Marketing Basics Will Get You to 6-Figures and Beyond
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| There are four key areas where many business owners let fear make their decisions for them instead of tapping into the grace and ease of Divine Guidance. Discover a simple checklist for quieting fear and self-doubt to create a 6-figure (or beyond) business. |
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Sales Management Training Tips: Coaching the Talented-Slacker
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| Meet Jane.
Jane is an experienced and successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. In fact, there are many Jane’s in all companies. Jane is performance driven, a very good coach and a people person. Each month Jane is put to the test with different sales reps she must coach to success.
IBZ is a mid sized technology company. The company has had some tough years but has turned the corner. It pays it’s reps a combination of salary and bonus for achievement of targets. This year the bonus plans has a super bonus portion which accelerates when a rep is 5% over quota.
Jane wants to get 2009 off to a great start. In one of our monthly coaching sessions Jane, was expressing her frustrations with one of her most tenured sales reps.
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The Optimistic Sales Professional
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| Sales is a demanding profession. Top performers know that to sustain a high level of performance, they need to keep fit and well - both physically and psychologically. An increasing body of research is showing that keeping an optimistic outlook, and having the physical energy to meet the demands of working in sales are critical to a sales person's effectiveness, success and overall well-being. Something many of us know intuitively, however it good to have it validated.
Managing and overcoming setbacks is key to succeeding in anything. In sales we are tested everyday. Without a sense of optimism it would make getting up to face each day that much harder.
So what is Optimism? |
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So You Want to be a Consultant?
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| I've been consulting successfully for over 20 years now. That makes me an old-timer in many folks' perceptions. Friends and associates often come to me for advice on how to start their own consulting business - mostly around how to position themselves as an expert in the market. Here are the thoughts I share. |
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Recruiting Quality Talent and Top Performers
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| What are the secrets to making quality hiring choices and refining your candidate selection process? How do you acquire the team members you really desire and eliminate the guess work? Read on to learn more... |
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Scout with a Plan to Increase Sales
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| Remember the old scouts of the West? These folks went ahead to make sure the trail was safe. Have you considered embracing this role to increase sales? |
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Positioning for Success - Part I
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| Positioning is probably the most important thing you'll do in your consulting or entrepreneurial business life. People come to you because of their perceptions, and perceptions are created through positioning stories. The right positioning and focus will attract prospects and customers to your door, and keep them coming back. |
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Improving Morale After Redundancies
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| When the actual redundancy process is complete and the unfortunate employees are made redundant there remains the issue of low morale that inevitably continues for some time. Without close monitoring this can become a very serious issue to any business.
Once the reduction in employees has taken place the staff that remain will probably be expected to achieve more and may have additional responsibilities placed on them.
How do you get the best from your staff now that they feel uncertain about their future and how do you improve morale?
There are five key areas that need to be considered and worked with carefully on an ongoing basis.
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Preparing for a Job Interview
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| No matter how confident you are interview preparation is critical to good interview performance and landing your dream job. Here are some suggestions on making a success of your job search. |
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Which Business Plan Software is For Me
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| I received a call this afternoon from a guy out in the New England area asking which program works best for raising investment capital. After a fairly long conversation explaining the key differences between the programs I decided to recap them here for your use: |
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Sales Coach: High Level of Empathy In Selling Important?
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| Empathy is defined by Wikipedia as: “the capacity to recognize or understand another’s state of mind or emotion. It is often characterized as the ability to “put oneself into another’s shoes” or in some way experience the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself. Empathy does not necessarily imply compassion, or empathic concern because this capacity can be present in context of compassionate or cruel behavior.”
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How to Use a Service Delivery Model to Win More Business
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| What is a ‘Service Delivery Model’? And how to use it.
For any business delivering a service or a complex or customised product, potential clients often have two major concerns. To get your prospect to become a paying client you must satisfactorily answer those questions. The best way to do that is to explain your Service Delivery Model.
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Simple Strategic Planning for the Independent Retailer
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| Strategic planning guides a retail organization towards those goals that will provide the stakeholders with the results that will encourage continued investment in the organization. The plan becomes the roadmap for the ongoing growth of the organization. An effective strategic planning process is a key management tool for insuring a vital, growing organization. As the planning process becomes part of the day to day activities of an organization, the results will become the fuel to maintain and improve the planning process.
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How can HR assist in the current market conditions?
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| Your HR department now needs to readdress it’s priorities and focus on building a sustainable plan to assist the business and its people through such difficult market conditions without adding costs and of course where ever possible reducing costs. A simple 5 point plan such as this will help.
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Upgrading Your Company Website
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| Dealing with website development issues can be an overwhelming task. There are many things your marketing team must consider, in fact, there are so many things to bear in mind that many of the most important ones never get dealt with, or are buried under competing interests. |
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Goal selection the key to success
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| Once an organization has decided what business it is in, it can focus on its goals, aims, and objectives. In contrast to a mission statement, corporate or business objectives are precise statement of intent which emphasized the aims and goals of an organizations. In this article we describe what is Goal,How to create company goals and objectives,characteristics of good goals and Comparison of team with goal and without goals. |
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Sales and Marketing - Align, Define and Make Money
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| Too many sales and marketing departments in corporate America are misaligned (even though the two departments share the same corporate office). Here are 6 key areas of misalignment to fix quickly before you lose more clients and money. |
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Value Over Price Preserves Profitability
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| One way to add value inside of this business equation is to buy a customer's business by offering the lowest Price. You already know that may get you a short-term sell at the expense of short-term and long-term profitability. But, there are more profitable ways to create Perceived Buyer Value, beyond under-cutting your competitor's price. |
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7 Foundations for Sales Greatness!
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| There are 7 key areas to develop when laying the foundation for your sales team. Build on these principles, and you will set your team up for greatness! |
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3 Simple Measurements for Developing Your Sales Team
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| In addition to looking at the numbers, you can figure out very quickly whether or not a sales person is successful by ranking them on a scale of one to ten... in three key areas… |
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How Balanced is YOUR Life?
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| Contrary to popular belief, balance is not an end point destination or a “thing” to be acquired. It is dynamic and always changing. Balance is more of a process not a place. A balanced life will look very different from one person to the next. The challenge is that most people have not given much thought to what a balanced life truly means to them. |
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Virginia Ranked No 1 in U.S. Report - Does Canada Need a Similar Study?
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| In yet another example of the value of collaboration over compliance the Commonwealth of Virginia was ranked alongside the States of Washington and Utah as a top performer in the PEW Center’s Grading the States 2008 report.
According to the PEW organization’s web site the report, which is designed to assess the “quality of management in the 50 states,” focuses on four key areas of government practice.
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What is the Value in your Supply Chain A PI Q and A
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| Member Question:
What is the difference between Supply Chain and Value Chain?
My Response:
To begin, the reference to supply or “value” chain is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture. This is a term that is on its way out as an organization’s supply “practice” is actually centered on the synchronization of diverse stakeholders sometimes spanning multiple supply networks. This is an important distinction given the impact that real-world synchronization has on theories such as value chains.
That said the concept of the value chain was first introduced by Michael Porter in 1985 in his book, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance.
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RIM...What's In It for Microsoft?
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| RIM continues a downward spiral. The company (and country) needs a savior that can act in the best interest of the employees, the technology, the shareholders. Microsoft is the most logical choice...here's why. |
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Five Steps to an Intuitive Website
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| An intuitive Website gets results by meeting visitor needs. How can you make your Website intuitive? |
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Developing Passive Income
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| Passive income is crucial to growing your business in a way that is not dependent on your time input. Passive income is income that comes without you directly having to work for it on an ongoing basis. |
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Know Your Client - The First Rule of Business Coaching
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| Coaching is currently expanding as a development tool in businesses and organisations and it is beginning now to show clear proof of remarkable successes. Careful preparation, with close attention to the required outcomes, means that the coach and client are fully focused. But the first step to accelerate coaching results in the workplace comes from getting really clear on the strengths and weaknesses of the client. |
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Making A Difference In Your Business - Ten Steps To Get You Going
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| We are all busy people. Our businesses depend on us and they require our full attention. Yet sometimes, it's of value to reflect on the bigger picture of purpose. What is a way to lead and yet, make a difference in your wake. |
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20 Ways to NAVIGATE to Higher Conversions
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| A site's navigation structure is extremely important in providing a rich, friendly user experience. Well designed and implemented navigation assists in the process of helping visitors identify sections and pages of the website that interest them and then in moving them in that direction. If you're able to implement a solidly developed navigation system on your site you'll also be providing strong visual cues to the depth of content you have available. This alone can be an immediate first-impression indicator of trust. |
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How To Increase Website Conversions
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| Many Webmasters and e-store owners get so caught up in trying to increase traffic levels that they almost forget to track conversions. However, the number of conversions, and the conversion rate of your site are among the most important figures to monitor. |
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7.5.3 Public sector services for the poor: Institutional design and capacity building
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| Within the public sector as well, concerted efforts need to be made to improve the pre- and in-service training of all personnel who are directly involved in facilitating knowledge dissemination and skills development among the poor. |
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Points of Intervention
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| This section is a walk through the MicroStart process, with specific recommendations. It focuses on the key areas of intervention SUM has identified. SUM's goal is to develop simple, efficient, and meaningful procedures, and these suggestions are offered in that spirit. |
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Your 1000 Day Vision
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| This piece is about choosing where you are going to be in 1000 days (i.e., three year’s time). Before you skeptics come up with your “yeah, buts,” let me say that part of me agrees with you! I’m usually wary about the idea of having a grand plan knowing that plans and reality can be very different. Real life can sometimes turn out to be much better than our plans! But the idea behind this piece is to identify key areas in your life and to really visualize what you want in them. After all, this is about looking at who you would like to be 1000 days from now and making your fantasies a reality. |
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Work out and work better
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| If you could do something for just twenty minutes a day that would improve your judgement, reasoning, awareness and perception, and it cost nothing – would you be interested? Might you be even more interested if you knew this would help you make fewer errors, better decisions, be more focused and improve your executive control (ability to achieve goals in changing environments). And what if I also told you that this twenty minute investment in yourself would make you healthier, happier and sexier! |
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Get Clear On What Your Business Needs Most
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| Directions:
On a scale from 0-10, rate yourself in the following areas. Then begin focusing your attention on the most critical areas first. |
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Focus On the Basics for Survival
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| When a company is facing challenges, the key to survival is a focus on a few key areas. The two most important areas for success are your staff and your performance against pre-determined key performance indicators. |
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SEO Tips
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| I often have people asking me for tips on SEO. I never know what to say, because SEO focuses on a wide spectrum of areas. Would you like tips on the optimisation of meta-data, SEO link-building or perhaps keyword research? The fact of the matter is that SEO covers so many areas, and even so-called SEO experts don’t always realize just how many factors have to be taken into account. |
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Smart Women Trim the Layers of Their Lives
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| This article is about taking a look at your life and trimming back the different areas to ensure that you have more of what you want and less of what you don’t want in life. There are 6 areas that women generally focus on. It’s important to shed something that’s no longer a fit. |
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Financial Skills Selling
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| The value of having the ability to read an organization's financial statement to identify areas in which the company may be struggling. This gives one the ability of knowing in advance, what areas need to be worked on. |
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Increase the Effectiveness and Profitability of your Business
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| Do you want to improve the effectiveness and profitability of your business? Of course you do! The fact is that organizations small and large that are in alignment in seven key areas have a critical competitive advantage over their competitors that do not. Developing and or strengthening these key areas is something that will yield you a huge return! |
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Non Toxic Laundry Detergent – Why is Bio-degradable so Important for Your Family and Health?
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| Have you considered yourself a Goes Green family or do you still trust the old line of it doesn't really make any difference? There are so many areas to consider. The first might be for you; do these non toxic laundry detergent natural cleaning products really work that well or are they just over priced and over sold. What are some areas to consider?
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Leadership Takes Balance
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| The Wheel of Life is a workshop I have taught for years. It’s a personal assessment tool of the balance in your life, and your satisfaction and development in each of eight areas of your life. My eight areas are: Career; Money & Life Planning; Health – Physical, Emotional, Spiritual; Family & Friends; Significant Other; Personal Development & Contribution; Fun & Relaxation; and Physical Environment. The idea is to develop all these areas equitably to meet your needs. |
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Have The Answers!
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| A good business plan tackles three major areas: The Business, The Market, and Finances. Look at the questions within each of the three areas below and answer them as they apply to your business. |
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Beginner's Mind
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| Beginner’s Mind is an amazing way to prepare yourself to learn. Being able to let go of any suppositions and simply be a sponge is a gift beyond explanation.
But we must also be selective when it comes to Beginner’s Mind. We all have expertise in some areas. And those areas often overlap with areas of Beginner’s Mind. |
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