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Lesson #3: “No person can get very far in life working 40 hours a week.”
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| Growing up in an impoverished childhood, Marriott knew all too well that success began with determination. From traveling across the U.S. to help support his father’s sheepherding business, to working every summer to pay for his university tuition, Marriott grew up with a determined attitude. Even his professors knew that Marriott was someone to watch for, after he turned his small, one-man operation selling woollen items to lumberjacks into an operation of 45 college students who sold products in seven different states. |
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I’m back and feeling better!
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| When the Supreme Technician (that’s me) wanders around the world, speaking, shouting, screaming and whispering the mantra of extreme entrepreneurship and the Age of The Entrepreneur, exhorting everyone in sight to wake up and to see the roses (before smelling them), life takes its toll, oh yes it does, and my voice goes with it, grinding down to dust, to squeals, to scratchy itchings, and with it goes my imagination which says, oh, no, will I ever be able to speak again? |
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Undergraduate Viewpoints on Social Networks and Music
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| Following is a guest post by my partner Jason Mendelson. All of the thoughts and grammar errors are his. All of the formatting errors are mine. |
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Altucher: College is "Abhorrent"
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| I love my friend James Altucher dearly -- and not just because his hair makes mine look half-decent, nor because he pitched in and helped last week at the Money:Tech conference -- and his column in yesterday's FT is another reason why. Blunt, smart, contrarian, empirical and irreligious, those are James's calling cards. |
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Practicing Assertiveness
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| Very early Sunday morning I was waiting in line at Montreal’s airport. Despite the early hour, the airport was crowded and the lines at each of the security points were the longest I had ever seen them. People were patiently waiting; however there was an older gentleman who became quite distressed as he realized he would miss his flight due to the slow movement of the line. He attracted the attention of one of the officials, however they merely shrugged unhelpfully. Then two European men in their mid 30’s went to the aid of the older man, they asked all the people in the queue ahead of him would they mind if he jumped ahead of them to catch his flight. Of course no one minded and the man went quickly through security. |
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The Right Way to Respond to a PR Query
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| What's truly mind blowing is that most of these came from PR firms pitching on behalf of their clients. I can maybe understand how someone who isn't a PR professional could make these mistakes...But these people are hired to do this!
So today I want to show you the right way to respond to PR queries so you can get more press with less effort.
#1 - Only respond to queries that truly relate to you and your expertise. No off target pitching. |
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The University of Sales
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| Is everybody on your sales team as dedicated as you are to continuously augmenting and upgrading personal knowledge and skills? There's no question that it's absolutely essential ...unless of course all your competitors are lazy and stupid. |
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What is happening to credibility in the online world?
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| Anybody can now post an article online. Anybody can become an expert, or be perceived to be an expert. Not much of the old credibility stamp is left. After all would you necessarily believe somebody to have a doctorate just by a few bits of the alphabet being stated after their name, when one can buy any degree online? |
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Please Stop Calling it Coaching!
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| Leading, managing, teaching, and mentoring are all important but lets please not confuse them with coaching. In these times of great upheaval we need real business leaders. These leaders need all of the coaching we can provide them. Let's not lose the moment and the power of what's possible by watering down the practice of authentic coaching. |
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Universities Love Startups
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| I'm continually impressed with the initiatives and resources I see from local universities to help startups. These definitely are not limited to students, since every university wants and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already have credibility in the marketplace. |
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Reference Checks; are they reliable?
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| There is a big time investment in the recruiting process. The ‘up front’ work does pay dividends - “Hire hard; manage easy” is, I believe, the expression. It works. Many clients ask us to check references when they find a good candidate and we always, but gently, remind them that these references are provided by the candidate and are not, therefore, likely to produce anything remotely negative. Organizations would be better to pay the money to a professional organization |
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How to Dominate Your Niche Market
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| People are always looking for information that will help them live better, either by helping them make the best decisions or by giving them a new outlook. It doesn’t matter what your niche is or how much competition your up against, you can dominate your niche market by providing quality information for hungry information addicts. |
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Home Staging Training Courses: Make the Right Decision for You
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| I receive many emails from people who are completely confused by the various home staging training programs available. With so many options, I can understand the frustration. However, once you know the right questions to ask, you can make a well-informed decision. |
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One Page at a Time (on the Writing Life)
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| Imagine following a writer around through all the years of her life one story at a time. When the writer is an award-winning writer and a superb storyteller, like Dr. Pat Carr, you are most likely to enjoy the trip through marriages, relationships, academic life, writing life.... |
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About Bill Gates
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| Bill Gates is the co-founder of one of the world’s largest corporations, and is himself one of the wealthiest men in the world. Sure, you already knew that. But, just how much do you really know about Bill Gates? Did you know that in university, he told his professors he would be a millionaire by the age of 30? Or that he used to sign up for classes that had the prettiest girls and no sessions on Fridays? |
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How Do African Businesses Get Start Up Capital?
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| Hi again, sorry again for the long pause. It seems to be occurring more than what I would like, but things have been moving at whirlwind pace recently.
Anyway, this is a question for all of you entrepreneurs, business students, professors, and others in the know on the inner workings of start ups in Africa. How did you or someone that you know get start up funds?
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AoM Presentation: Studies on Developing Leadership / People Skills
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| At the Academy of Management in 2008, three professors shared their experiences and studies on the impact of a leadership simulation, vLeader. |
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Money can't buy you love but it can buy you happiness
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| Exploring the issue of happiness by introducing you to the latest research from a group of Harvard professors and my own observations over the years. |
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Lesson #3: “No person can get very far in life working 40 hours a week.”
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| Growing up in an impoverished childhood, Marriott knew all too well that success began with determination. From traveling across the U.S. to help support his father’s sheepherding business, to working every summer to pay for his university tuition, Marriott grew up with a determined attitude. Even his professors knew that Marriott was someone to watch for, after he turned his small, one-man operation selling woollen items to lumberjacks into an operation of 45 college students who sold products in seven different states. |
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The Desperation Solution
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| You have probably heard it said that necessity is the mother of invention. If necessity is its mother, desperation must certainly have been its father. Creative people often come up with breakthrough solutions only when they're forced to.
Professors from the University of Chicago and Harvard determined that there is direct correlation between when unemployment runs out and when people get a job. While desperation may be a great motivator, it's not always the most productive way to perform with excellence. I believe there is a win/win solution here as you and I-as mature, functioning people-can set our own deadlines.
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Our Attitude More Than Our Aptitude Determines Our Altitude
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| Our society admires strength and power. Since the early games of the ancient Olympics, we've had contests of strength, stamina, speed, and the like. We've approached brainpower or intellectual abilities in the same way. We're in awe of intellectual giants with memory, reasoning, or complex problem solving abilities far beyond our own. IQ tests were developed to measure this intellectual strength and power. We've come to believe that highly intelligent people make the best professors, doctors, managers, scientists, and so on. Many people believe that high IQ and high levels of success and happiness go together.
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