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Be Prepared to Succeed: Do Your Homework before Starting New Businesses and Jobs
A little homework can make all the difference in starting new businesses or new jobs. This article describes the benefits of the right homework, and tells you what to do to prepare for success.
Smoke Out and Eliminate Pesky Long-Term Problems
Every organization is hobbled by problems that everyone knows about, but no one has solved. This article describes methods for finding and accomplishing lasting solutions.
To Start a Successful Consulting Firm, Learn from Your Clients
Clients will teach you what you need to know about what services they need and how they want those services provided. But you have to be a sincere student of your current and potential clients to gain the right learning.
Check Out the Top First to See How to Get There
A first job is critical to completing your education. Try to get one where you can meet the top people in your field. You'll see what they are missing and can plan a better career path as a result.
Stretch Beyond What You Can Hope to Succed at to Learn the Most
Mentors are in a better position to advise you on what challenges to take than you are. Listen and act!
You Never Know What You Can Do Until You Improvise
If you are willing to improvise, you'll find paths to success that are invisible to all.
Learn the Value of Hard Work, Imagination, and Education
By paying attention to hard work, imagination, and education, you can transform you situation. Here's an example of what I learned.
Learn and Love Your Work
Do you love your work? If you don't, you should consider how gaining more skill and exploring other interests can help you to get a job that you would love.
Boldly Take Your Business Where No One Has Gone Before
Aim to go beyond copying what others do to gain global breakthroughs for your business. But the right kind of copying can help get you where you want to go.
A Stitch in Time Saves Eighty-One
This article explores the perspective necessary to create social, personal, and business breakthroughs.
Speed Up: Going from Concept to Widespread Application Often Takes Four Centuries
This article looks at the reasons for slow adoption of breakthrough concepts.
Apply Lessons from the Past to Build a Brighter Future for All
How can we use history to teach us to avoid mistakes and seize opportunities for our lives today?
Online Education Provides a Career Gangplank for a Retiring Naval Officer
Do you plan to stay aboard ship for your whole career? If you want to change into a civilian career, you can study while at sea to prepare for new leadership challenges.
Learn from the School of Hard Knocks to Gain Business Career Success
The article looks at the hard-won lessons of the school of hard knocks for building a successful business career.
Design, Propose, and Describe Potential Business Models for Stakeholder Evaluation and Improvement
Take stakeholders into account in creating superior business models and you'll make more improvements that will work better.
Business Model Innovation--Share Benefits Widely to Provide More for Each Stakeholder
Benefits are expandable, depending on who benefits and how much they can gain. Business model innovation needs to take this into account.
Instill a Spirit of Teamwork and Cooperation for Mutual Advantage
Stakeholders of an organization can accomplish more by cooperating than by standing at arms-length. This article explores the advantages of such cooperation.
Insist on the Best for Your Career
Carefully plan your career, set high goals, and then pick the education to give you a huge head start.
Master Taking the Affordable Risks to Reduce or Eliminate the Big Risks
Business model innovation requires careful examination and selection risks. This article explains more about how to do this.
Improve Your Business Model Concepts While Testing Specific Changes
Long delays can be avoided when business model innovation implementation is investigated while changes are being tested.
How to Select Among Promising Cost-Reduction Tests
If you are lucky and imaginative, you should have more cost-reduction tests to run than you have time and resources to do so. This article looks at how to pick just the most promising tests.
Find Problems with Cost Reductions and Then Make Improvements
Most cost reduction proposals are flawed. But those flaws can help you locate appropriate cost reductions to test. This article shows you how to spot more flaws and make better use of what you learn.
Set and Achieve High Goals: Launch Your Career onto a Higher Trajectory by Going Beyond an MBA
This article describes the importance of setting the right career goals.
Look for Leading Indicators of Leading Indicators of Irresistible Forces and Trends
At some point, you won't be able to anticipate effects any further into the future unless you extend your understanding of the chain of causation. This article looks at an example of how to do that.
Find Predictors of Trend Directions to Profit the Most
Aside from any trend or irresistible force, you will find factors that precede changes. Identify those factors, and you can help identify shifts in direction for trends and forces before they occur.
Be Aggressive in Seeking Out Future Best Practices Concerning Powerful Trends
If you stop your search too soon, you'll miss most of the opportunity to take more profitable advantage of irresistible forces.
Let New Knowledge and Skills Expand Your World While Living Where You Are
Who wouldn't want to live in a great place and still enjoy the benefits of the rest of the world? In this article, you can learn how.
Key Methods for Identifying, Anticipating, and Adapting to Changes in Powerful Trends
Questions in this article will help you gain the most profit from irresistible forces.
Identify Irresistible Forces by Taking the Measure of Your Environment
This article provides examples of how to use measurements to identify irresistible forces.
Step Three: Identify Future Best Practices for Locating, Anticipating and Adapting to Trend Changes
You need to appreciate the full potential use of irresistible forces before you start applying your knowledge.
Travel the Road Less Threatened to Succeed
Taking on extra risk for no potential gain is a foolish choice. Not checking for the risk-reward relative to irresistible trends is even more foolish.
Eight Steps to Managing Irresistible Trends Well
This article looks at how to become aligned positively towards all potential directions for irresistible forces and trends.
Develop Proprietary Measurements to Anticipate Shifts in Powerful Trends
In this article, you will learn a process for how to find proprietary barometers that predict changes in irresistible forces that affect your enterprise.
Family Sizes Are A Strategic Factor You Must Focus On
In most of the world, the number of children in a family is dropping rapidly. Such demographic trends dominate strategy and business success and must be focused on.
Insulate Your Enterprise from the Cold Head Winds of Changed Trends
Everyone who has ever been to a football game after Thanksgiving knows that dressing warmly is required. Dressed warmly enough, and you can enjoy the game as much as one in September. This article suggests insulating your business from the cold head winds of change so you can profit from those changes.
Get As Much Advance Warning As Possible of Trend and Irresistible Force Shifts
If you need lengthy warning of trend and irresistible force shifts, you need to anticipate the changes by enough time to give you time to prepare.
A Woman Overcomes a Little Slip That Slowed Her Business Career
When we are young, a little delay in our education or career can be very discouraging. But it's not the delay that counts: It's what you do about it. This article shows how one woman overcame an annoying delay to succeed.
Can We Talk About What's Working And What's Not . . . And Why?
Errors will always occur, but we fail to gain advantages from errors unless we study what happened and learn from the experience.
Accurate Estimations of Powerful Trends Leads to Profitable Progress
Some underestimate powerful trends and take on more than they can handle.
Treat Those With Bad News Well, or You'll Never Know What Hit You
Leaders and managers usually don't know what's going on. If they bite off the heads of those who tell about problems, no one will warn them of what to look out for.
For the Lowest Costs Recheck a Process Before Automating It
Avoid automating what need not or should not be done.
To Grow and Reduce Costs Avoid Making Customers Wait in Unending Lines That Frustrate Them
Speed up customer service without harming the quality of that service, and you'll reduce costs and add customers.
Opportunities for Improvement Often Start with Flexible Automation
Automation is often used to make everyone go through the same process, jump through the same hoops. But automation has a greater potential to free people to pursue an individualized need.
Look Sharp to Stay Sharp: A Masterful Professor Studies Online to Advance His Skills
How can a successful teacher improve? Try becoming a student again to add new dimensions of knowledge and taste a different teaching course. Career advances cannot be far behind.
Make Automation Easy to Turn Off . . . Rather Than a Customer Turnoff
It's helpful to be able to use . . . or not use . . . automation when you need to please customers.
Let Customers Adjust Automation to Fit Their Needs
Even a great customer service process can be unpleasant for some. Make the kind and degree of automation flexible for customers, and all customers will be pleased.
Increased Security May Make Customers Flee
Online customer service is often the enemy of the customer. Change that or you won't have very many customers.
Step One: Recognize How Measurements Can Help Identify and Understand More About Irresistible Forces
Most people don't think about identifying and measuring irresistible forces. But learning how to do this is essential to taking advantage of irresistible forces.
Do the Opposite of the Financial Advice Business Schools Provide and You'll Succeed
Business schools love to tout the advantages of borrowing lots of low-cost debt. Powerful trends can easily overwhelm those who follow such ill-founded advice.
Table Tennis Balls Inspire Superior Business Model Innovation
An original business thinker derives ideas for major profit improvements from enjoying table tennis. In this article, you will see ways you can use your interests and added education to boost your career and credibility.
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