Fri.Apr 19, 2019

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Time Management Tips

YoungUpstarts

by Cody McLain , founder of SupportNinja and author of “ From Foster Care to Millionaire: A Young Entrepreneur’s Story of Tragedy and Triumph ”. So, you want to improve your time management skills? That’s great! Fortunately for you, it’s not that complicated. Here are some of the most effective time management tips, tools, and techniques that you can use when faced with many of life’s challenges — big or small.

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What Is the Difference Between Leadership and Management for a Nonprofit?

Board Effect

The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee , said: “A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.”. There are those who use the words “leader” and “manager” interchangeably, but their meanings are distinctly different.

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The Most Important Skill You Never Learned – Expert Tips To Solve Problems like Top Strategy Consultants  

YoungUpstarts

by Corey Phelps, co-author of “ Cracked it!: How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants “ We all solve problems. We couldn’t make it through a day without tackling the steady flow of challenges life throws at us: “What’s the most efficient route to avoid a traffic jam and get to work on time?” “Where do I take my out-of-town friend to dinner?

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6 Keys To Turning Your Failures Into Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Mark Cuban image via Flickr by jdlasica We all have had setbacks in business – the challenge is learn from each one to improve skills and decision making, rather than let failures get you down and reduce your chances of ever achieving success. The best entrepreneurs and business owners have experienced failure multiple times before bouncing back to a level of achievement they only dreamed of.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Beginners’ Guide To Search Engine Advertising

YoungUpstarts

Search engine advertising is more than just a buzzword. It’s a powerful way to drive traffic to your business. However, there’s a bit of a learning curve that keeps many businesses away from this area of online advertising. What exactly is Search Engine Advertising ? Also commonly referred to as paid search, this is how websites get their ads to appear on the search engine results pages (SERPs).

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7 Business Killers — Thoughts Startups Ought to Consider

ReadWriteStart

Being an entrepreneur is one of the quickest thoughts which comes to the mind of a young person when thinking about a career. However considering the risks and challenges which comes with starting a business — most are unprepared for this challenge. Many people believe that because someone else succeeded in being an entrepreneur — […].

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How to Get Away From a Growth Mindset and Start to Scale

ReadWriteStart

Once you implement scalable processes, you can focus on increasing demand for your product or service without wondering whether your startup can handle it. The post How to Get Away From a Growth Mindset and Start to Scale appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Q219 Vacation Reading List

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I took our Q219 Vacation in Kyoto and then finished up with a few days of work in Tokyo. I had a terrible cold so I spent a lot of time in bed sleeping and reading. We wandered around some in Kyoto and saw cherry blossoms, but the food was mostly lost on me given how crummy I felt. I did, however, get a lot of reading done. So, as a return from vacation bonus, you get my reading list with some short comments.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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3 Reasons to Encourage Employee Development

Transformify

A job can pay well and have a positive environment but still be unsatisfying for the employee. A likely culprit is the apparent lack of growth opportunities. If an employee feels like s/he is stuck in a rut, their performance may start to decline. You need to have everyone on the top of the game at all times, and employee development is one of the best ways to do that.

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How I read

Jeff Hilimire

Over the last several years I’ve dramatically increased the amount that I read, culminating in my biggest year ever in 2018 when I read 52 books. I’m struggling this year to get anywhere close to that, mainly because I have another goal for 2019 that is in direct conflict. But, I’m still trying to read a lot of books this year. And I get asked quite a bit from friends how I manage to find the time to read, which I wrote about in my post, How to read 52 books in a year.

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How To Create Job Families

YoungUpstarts

Job families can hardly be called a new idea. The notion that particular groups of people are doing not only the same job, but a job that is within a broader collection of connected, related, or otherwise associated jobs, is one with well-established roots in a wide variety of professions. However there are many and various ideas about the answer to the question of how to create job families that work well for your business, and makes your Human Resources situation carefully balanced and well st

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