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Lesson # 5: Entrepreneurship Cannot Be Taught
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| “I often get asked to talk about entrepreneurship – even by hallowed institutions like Harvard and Stanford – but I’m not all convinced it is a subject you can teach,” says Roddick. “How do you teach obsession, because more often than not it’s obsessions that drives an entrepreneur’s vision? Why would you march to a different drumbeat if you are instinctively part of the crowd?” |
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Pressing All the Right Buttons: The Kodak Comeback
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| During the day, Eastman was a bank worker like any other. But at night, he would rush home to tinker with his new camera. Photography became his obsession as he spent hours pouring over photography manuals and journals, trying to learn everything he could about the art. It was in reading one of those journals that Eastman would stumble across an article that would change his life forever. |
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The Essence of Duct Tape Marketing
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| Duct tape (the tape) is simple, effective, and affordable—it’s not always the prettiest solution, but it does always work. The central theme of Duct Tape Marketing: The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide by John Jantsch is that effective small business marketing is a system—not an event—composed of simple, effective, and affordable techniques. |
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The Seventh Deadly Workplace Sin: Lust
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| Recently, I read an article from Careerbuilder.com about the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. Last time, I gave you my take on Gluttony. Finally, it’s all about Lust.
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Housewide Storage -- Better Safe than Sorry But…
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| Imagine being able to access any file in the house -- wired or wireless. Yes a safe haven where you can store, protect, enjoy, share the family content and other stuff. All it takes is Plug and Play NAS. PnP sounds so friendly, so nice, so easy, so fun. NAS sounds like...gawd we don't know. But home networking, good home networking has been promised for years. All you need is a techie who just loves to help you, a few evenings and a long weekend and hey there's nothing to it. Face it...your sanity and keeping your blood pressure under control is worth something right? |
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Passion - The Great Differentiator
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| Imagine that there is a cornerstone on which all performance-driven organizations are built. A cornerstone that–if you placed it–would ensure that your team or organization relentlessly delivered top-tier results.
What would that cornerstone be?
Based on "The Passion Principle: Designing a Passionate Organization", the first book in the "Passionate Lives and Leaders" Series, this article will show you that there are many components of success, but only one that’s not optional: Passion. |
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Addiction to Video Games
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| In recent years, video game playing has become a major addiction that people use to avoid responsibility for their feelings. |
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Characteristics of the entrepreneurs
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| Dream a big dream, big dreams attract a lot of people! |
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OBSESSION, Why It Is Good For You And How To Use It To Your Advantage
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| Do you remember having a song in your head that you just
couldn't get rid of it, then you walk into a store, and low and
behold, the same song is playing? - Or, how about that constant
thought that doesn't seem to want to leave you alone, and when
you wake up in the morning, there it is again, and you wonder,
what the heck? |
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Balance for small business owners
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| A brief discussion on creating balance for the life of a small business owner. |
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How to be Goal Focused
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| There has been an awful lot talked and written about on the subject of goal setting. The concept is simple and straightforward; yet far too many people and organisations still don’t do it. If this applies to you or your organisation I want you to put that right - now.
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What Salespeople Can Learn from a Focus on the Chase instead of the Hammer
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| What is possible if salespeople began to think of the sales process like the noted automobile restorer Wayne Carini? Just how is the sales process in the top performer’s way like the chase for the finest classic cars? |
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Think Beyond Just Getting Links
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| Is your web page newsworthy, funny, valuable, controversial, helpful, or even shocking? If not, then why would anyone want to link to you? |
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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (Don't Do It)
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| DON'T DO IT! At least don't do it now. Why do what, for the most part is expected as a part of the New Year's paranoia. What is this obsession anyway with making resolutions as a part of welcoming in the New Year? |
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Is Your Godfather An Angel?
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| The traditional stereotype of the innovator is that of an eccentric, slightly unworldly Absent Minded Professor, so caught up in the beauty he finds in his work that he neglects everything else around him. |
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Obsessive Management Disorder
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| The difference between leaders and followers in retail and what is needed to become an effective manager of people. |
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Earning Money Online with Adsense
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| There is nothing better than free cash. Earning money online however, is generally not free cash you have to do something. But there is a way you can get Google to pay for doing virtually nothing. The system is called Adsense. Basically what happens is that Google will place little ads on your blog or website that are relevant to the content of your webpage. |
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How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
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| The following interview is a slightly modified version of an interview that just appeared on BoingBoing.
It explores philosophical systems as personal operating systems (for better decision-making), the value of college and MBAs, and the bridge between business and military strategy, among other things.
Avi first reached out to discuss my practical obsession with the philosopher Lucius Seneca, so that’s where we start…
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Would you Do It for FREE?
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| There’s a lot of talk about passion in business these days. The experts say that you dramatically increase your chances of success when your work is your passion. Of course, we also talk about balancing work with personal life.
What’s the deal? |
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Blog Less, Earn More
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| Should you be blogging? Most seem to think yes, but some say no. See the pros of *not* blogging. |
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THINKING ABOUT THINKING
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| Thoughts and actions which are allowed to flow without being considered lead us to instinctual behaviour where we repeat the same actions, and often the same mistakes, as the past. |
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Turnovers & Takeaways
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| True football fans, particularly those like me who consider football a religion rather than a mere obsession, speak an entirely different language than you normal people. While I am, like other “NFLians” bound by a certain code of honor, I’m going to let the rest of you inside our secret world: just this once! |
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There is NO Competition
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| What’s the competition doing? Who cares! The important thing is what you’re doing, right here and right now. |
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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Micromanagement.
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| Are you constantly checking the work of your team members? Are you a perfectionist?
I define micromanagement as:
Often unintentionally, a micromanager delves into too much detail. Rather than allowing people the responsibility and freedom to do their job, the micromanager monitors and reviews every task. This obsession with detail causes resentment, affecting staff performance in a negative way.
Micromanaging causes frustration. In the end, it can provide the impetus for staff to leave. |
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Travel Savvy: OGIOs Terminal bag style 711401
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| Because my husband and I are full-time, professional travel writers, the nature of our hunt for the ideal carry-on bag has become almost an obsession. Add to that the diminishing limits -- both weight and size -- for carry-on baggage (especially on international flights), and you can imagine how discerning and picky we have become. |
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How to conquer our fear of failure
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| Our fear of failure is probably the single greatest obstacle to success in our adult lives. We become totally preoccupied with not making a mistake and with seeking approval. |
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People on Purpose
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| When one lives with a purpose they will know unprecedented peace, power and profit when they discover their own Magnificent Obsession and give themselves permission to win at all costs. Do you have what it takes? |
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Lesson # 5: Entrepreneurship Cannot Be Taught
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| “I often get asked to talk about entrepreneurship – even by hallowed institutions like Harvard and Stanford – but I’m not all convinced it is a subject you can teach,” says Roddick. “How do you teach obsession, because more often than not it’s obsessions that drives an entrepreneur’s vision? Why would you march to a different drumbeat if you are instinctively part of the crowd?” |
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Pressing All the Right Buttons: The Kodak Comeback
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| During the day, Eastman was a bank worker like any other. But at night, he would rush home to tinker with his new camera. Photography became his obsession as he spent hours pouring over photography manuals and journals, trying to learn everything he could about the art. It was in reading one of those journals that Eastman would stumble across an article that would change his life forever. |
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Travel Savvy: OGIOs Terminal bag style 711401
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| Because my husband and I are full-time, professional travel writers, the nature of our hunt for the ideal carry-on bag has become almost an obsession. Add to that the diminishing limits -- both weight and size -- for carry-on baggage (especially on international flights), and you can imagine how discerning and picky we have become. |
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Turnovers & Takeaways
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| True football fans, particularly those like me who consider football a religion rather than a mere obsession, speak an entirely different language than you normal people. While I am, like other “NFLians” bound by a certain code of honor, I’m going to let the rest of you inside our secret world: just this once! |
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Goal Achieving
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| So when does a dream become a goal? It is when it changes from an idle ‘wish’ to something you have a passion for, perhaps even an obsession. In fact show me a man who is obsessed with something and I will show you a man with a goal. If you are serious and determined about achieving various goals in your life then you must become passionate about them. However, another important thing about achieving goals is to incorporate FUN. |
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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (Don't Do It)
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| DON'T DO IT! At least don't do it now. Why do what, for the most part is expected as a part of the New Year's paranoia. What is this obsession anyway with making resolutions as a part of welcoming in the New Year? |
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Fred's Five Rules for Product/Market Fit
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| Love this: Fred Wilson's five rules for product/market fit at startups. I can almost always spot the MBAs pitching me -- there's zero obsession. |
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How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
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| The following interview is a slightly modified version of an interview that just appeared on BoingBoing.
It explores philosophical systems as personal operating systems (for better decision-making), the value of college and MBAs, and the bridge between business and military strategy, among other things.
Avi first reached out to discuss my practical obsession with the philosopher Lucius Seneca, so that’s where we start…
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Creating an Unhappy Customer
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| The customer may not always be right in what they are asking for – but rest assured they will always be right if they believe that they are being treated less than they ought to be. If your organization seeks excellence – it must include an obsession with great customer service. |
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