Building a Business
Want to Save the World? First Save Yourself.
The key to helping others is the order: First focus on building your career, then, if you're successful, you'll have plenty to give back.
Steve Tobak is a management consultant, columnist, former senior executive, and author of Real Leaders Don't Follow: Being Extraordinary in the Age of the Entrepreneur (Entrepreneur Press, October 2015). Tobak runs Silicon Valley-based Invisor Consulting and blogs at stevetobak.com, where you can contact him and learn more.
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How to create a culture that inspires your employees to do their best-all the time-and grow your company.
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Want Big Things Out of Life? Expect Big Things of Yourself.
If you want to do great work, be proud of your achievements, and lead a purposeful life, you need to set your sights much higher than they are.
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Want to Be Successful? Be the Best at What You Do.
The litmus test for success is to find the one thing you're best at. Once you find it, God speed.
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If you think you have to be a rock star or a visionary to succeed as a business leader, let us show you that you're wrong.
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The Only Good Reason to Start a Business in 2016
It may be a new year, but that doesn't mean you should quit your job and start a company no one needs.
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Which School of Leadership Are You From?
There are several schools of thought about what it takes to be a great leader. See if you can recognize yours -- and whether it's time to change schools.
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10 Toxic Behaviors to Leave Behind in 2015
Stop and think about all the time and money you waste on stuff that does you absolutely no good whatsoever.
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The 10 Worst Entrepreneurs of 2015
If you're looking for best practices to follow, take a pass on learning from these folks.
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Pass on an MBA
If the spiraling scandal at Stanford is any indication, an MBA from a prestigious business school isn't all it's cracked up to be
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What You Can Learn From These 4 Reasons for Failure
Not only will these insights help you avoid making the same mistakes, but they will teach you critical best practices.
Building a Business
7 Steps to Crafting Your Strategic Vision
If you don't know where your business is going, you'll never get there.
Building a Business
Are You Living Your Life or Someone Else’s?
Your own experience, instincts, and common sense will inform all your important decisions.
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10 Secrets to Great Wealth
Nobody ever got ahead by doing what everyone else is doing. That includes reading articles like this one.
Building a Business
4 Marketing Principles to Dominate Your Target Market
Marketing is critical to the success of any business, which is why it's so important to get it right. These four rules will help.
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Stop Dreaming and Start Doing
We all have the potential for a fulfilling life, but only if we get out and live it. And the same goes for your work.
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Success Is Not a Goal. It’s a Way of Life.
If you see success as a goal, I doubt if you'll ever achieve it. But if doing great work is what you love to do, I'm sure you'll be successful.
Building a Business
5 Sales Skills to Make Your Business Thrive
Sales is where the rubber meets the road in business. Learn how you can become a star salesperson.
Building a Business
Easy Startup = Hard Success
Schooling, mentoring, and experience may be hard, but they make success that much easier.
Building a Business
Want to Get Famous? Make Amazing Stuff.
Blogging, networking, and personal branding will not make you successful. Making great products customers love will.
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Success Is Its Own Worst Enemy
When entrepreneurs are successful at one thing, they inevitably assume they can replicate that success again and again … until they can't.
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Are You a REAL Entrepreneur?
Just calling yourself an entrepreneur doesn't mean you actually are one. See if these four traits describe you to find out if the label really fits.
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Behind every failed company are dysfunctional, delusional, or incompetent business leaders. Don't be one of them.
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Fear Alone Can Never Hurt You
Fear is how your instincts warn you of danger, but that powerful and ancient survival mechanism is often wrong.
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How to Develop a Junk Content Filter
In a world dominated by user-generated content, you've got to know what's real and what isn't.
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5 Skills You Must Develop to Succeed in Business
Get a long-term advantage in the competitive world of business by adopting these skills.
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Want to Be Successful? Quit Searching for Answers.
If you're searching for a great career full of passion, purpose and achievements you can be proud of, you can quit searching now.
