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Start Your Own Business On A Budget
If you have been feeling disheartened about the fact that only ten percent of new business startups survive, there is hope yet. It is surely nothing but a myth as Dun and Bradstreet reports that more than seventy-six percent of people starting up a new business are in business for more than two years.

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STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
According to the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ (A.C.T.U.) 1997 survey, fifty per cent of workers had suffered some form of stress at work in a 12-month period. The statistics in care professions were even higher, with the Department of Education and Training in Western Australia reporting in its 2002 Attitudes To Teaching Survey that seventy per cent of teachers identified workplace stress as a cause for concern in their teaching positions.

Changing Rules
Poor Pluto. Stripped of its planetary status by the International Astronomical Union and reclassified as a "dwarf planet," Pluto's demotion heralds new rules for planet classification. A week of debate by renowned astronomers from seventy-five countries culminated in the decision to reduce the number of planets to eight "classic" ones. This reclassification got me thinking.

THE APOSTILLE PROCESS
I had my doctoral degree apostilled by the then US secretary of state (General Colin Powell – Ret.), thereby making it a recognized degree in every country that signed the Hague convention in the year 1961. Seventy-eight countries in all. Most people ask me why I got my degree apostilled. This is usually followed by the question, what is apostille?

Lesson #3: Know the Difference between Working Hard and Working Smart
“I had a real problem with people overworking actually,” says Orfalea. “They’d work sixty to seventy hours a week in the stores, and they were busy, busy, busy, but the store was dirty and they didn’t see it. I’d say, ‘Why don’t you get the windows cleaned,’ and they would say, ‘I’m too busy.’”

Leadership in Crisis
Top executive failure rates are estimated to be as high as seventy-five percent and rarely lower than thirty percent. A McKinsey study found that the pipeline for future leaders is broken. Only three percent of those responding to the survey felt their company developed leaders well. Why is this happening? Simply because leaders -- like the rest of us -- tend to judge their own performance significantly better than do those they work with.

Start Your Own Business On A Budget
If you have been feeling disheartened about the fact that only ten percent of new business startups survive, there is hope yet. It is surely nothing but a myth as Dun and Bradstreet reports that more than seventy-six percent of people starting up a new business are in business for more than two years.

The New Dance
Poor Pluto. Stripped of its planetary status by the International Astronomical Union and reclassified as a "dwarf planet," two years ago, Pluto's demotion heralds new rules for planet classification. Debate by renowned astronomers from seventy-five countries culminated in the decision to reduce the number of planets to eight "classic" ones.

Ideal Jobs for Baby Boomers
Seventy-eight million baby boomers will be considering retirement in the next 5-15 years and they are reinventing what it means to be "old" and still working. Now is the time to think about what it is you truly want in your working experience to make this transition easier and without confusion or frustration.

The Power of Solitude
It's extremely rare to hear someone say, "I get my best ideas at work." You cannot hope to experience the quiet needed to unearth your greatest ideas if you are running 100 miles an hour and have seventy things on your to-do list.

The Importance of Due Diligence When You Buy a Franchise
Due diligence, which is originally coined in reference to the Securities Act of 1993 of the United States, is a legal term that has taken a more legal meaning for the last seventy years. After the stock market crash of 1929, brokers were obliged to follow detailed steps before they can sell securities such as bonds and stocks to investors. Among the causes of the Great Depression was the lack of proper control on Wall Street but now, a lot of things have changed.

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