Weekend Favs July 22 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. MORE

There are certain situations in which we feel confident, and others that we feel less confident, more vulnerable and nervous. Public speaking is a large part of a lot of our jobs, whether it is speaking to 10 colleagues or clients in a meeting, to over 100 people at a conference or event. MORE

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Richard Branson say that communication is the most important skill you need. Yet most of us forget the listening part. MORE

Making the decision to stop working for someone else and to start your own business is both exciting and nerve racking. A lot of new businesses don’t last and some are unfortunately doomed to fail from the offset. MORE

NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) AP) — Lane closures are scheduled for next week on the Bonner Bridge on the North Carolina coast as the replacement project goes into the next phase MORE

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. Michael Beattie , who launched MBM Consulting in 1995, knows full well the special combination of training, skills and, importantly, mindset it takes to succeed. MORE