How to Deal with Stress: 5 Tips to Use Starting Today
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As an entrepreneur or leader, you’re no stranger to work-related stress. But what do you do when the stress becomes overwhelming? Are you dealing with it in the right ways? Stress can cause a host of mental, emotional, and physical health issues (it can even kill you!), so it’s imperative that you’re properly managing your stress. Here are a few tips to help.
…Weekly Roundup: 5 Must-See YouTube Videos for Entrepreneurs
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YouTube is goldmine for entrepreneurs seeking advice and inspiration. It can be overwhelming, however, finding the quality advice amidst all the noise. So we’ve tried to make it a little easier on you. Here are five of our favorite YouTube videos delivering advice and insights for entrepreneurs from the past week.
1. How To Find Your Special Gift, Even If You Don’t Think You…
Top 10 Traits of an Effective Leader
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In 1954 the renowned psychologist Raymond Cattell developed the Leadership Potential Equation, which is still used today to screen job candidates and determine best placement within an organization or business. Cattell’s Leadership Potential Equation includes 10 traits that characterize an effective leader. How many of these 10 traits do you have?
1. Charisma. Leaders with a high level of personal charisma are capable of…
5 Tips for Dealing with Criticism of Your Business on Social Media
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It’s a tricky situation. Someone is posting potentially reputation-damaging criticism of your business on social media—maybe negative reviews on Yelp, attacks on Facebook, or trolls on Twitter. It can be tough to receive criticism, but how you handle online criticism can often greatly impact the reputation of your business, so it’s best to not blow your cool. As Bill Gates said, “Your most unhappy…
What’s the Secret to Success? Power!
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Jeffrey Pfeffer knows a thing or two about success. He’s the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and The Wall Street Journal named him one of the top 20 most influential business thinkers. So when he talks about why cultivating power is the secret to success, it’s wise to listen and learn.
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Diversify or Die: 4 Simple Rules to Stay Alive!
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As an entrepreneur, your number one priority should be to strengthen your business’ ability to withstand future unfavorable economic events. That’s to say, you have an edict to maintain your business as an “Ongoing Concern.” This premise should be the basis of every entrepreneurial endeavor.
Don’t Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket!
In business, as in life, it is easy to fall…
5 Tips to Make Your Team More Focused & Productive
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You may be confident in your own focus and productivity, but teams are another story. How do you ensure that everyone on your team is working towards the same goals, staying on track, and coming up with great new ideas? These five tips will help you keep your team focused and productive.
1. Ensure that everyone is on the same page.
What’s obvious…
4 Lessons About Leadership from Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann
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As CEO of the world’s largest charitable organization, Sue Desmond-Hellmann knows a thing or two about leadership. And she’s known for a long time. Before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014, she was Chancellor of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and before that she was president of product development at Genentech, making her a recognized leader in areas…
15 Inspiring Quotes from Successful Entrepreneurs
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Spring is here. If you’ve stumbled on keeping your New Year’s resolutions, there’s no better time to push those stumbles aside and focus on the new goals, new challenges, and new opportunities just around the corner. If you need some words of advice, look no further than these 15 quotes from successful entrepreneurs that will encourage and inspire you on all your current and…
