Building a Business
Confidence Is the Currency of the Future
Even though we are born curious and creative, more often than not, these qualities are educated out of us. It's time for change in the school of life.
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Business Ideas
6 Surefire Tips for Finding Inspiration
Are you looking for the next idea that will change the landscape?
Building a Business
How to Use Your Soft Skills to Make a Hard Difference
Soft skills are desired traits from team members and employees, yet they are also cited in becoming a scarce skill set.
Building a Business
4 Ways to Train Employees Effectively
Without the right combination of technology, hands-on attention and follow up you can't be confident what is taught today will be remembered tomorrow.
Building a Business
Confidence Is Essential When You Really Don’t Know What You Are Doing
Nobody has ever been as good at something the first time as they become the hundredth time. To start, you simply have to believe you can do it.
By Jon Nastor
Thought Leaders
Business Skills vs. Entrepreneurial Thinking
While both business and entrepreneurship skills can be taught, they are very, very different.
By Amy Rosen
Thought Leaders
5 Useful Skills TV Producers Possess That You Should Too
Whether you are an employee or entrepreneur, here are qualities you should have to make your business life more successful.
Building a Business
The 4 Qualities That Inventors or Entrepreneurs Should Look for in a Partner
Rarely does one person fill both roles. To present an innovative solution to the market and build a profitable business, you need a team.
Building a Business
How Startup Founders Should Be Setting Long-Term Goals
Entrepreneurs need to understand what goals matter the most to their company and focus on setting goals, reviewing these milestones and seeking advice.
Thought Leaders
Entrepreneurs Should Aim to Improve This One Ability to Gain a Huge Advantage
There has never been a greater need for business owners to rapidly consume new information on various topics.
By Thomas Smale
Entrepreneurs
Want to Be Your Best? It Will Take the Hard Work of ‘Deliberate Practice.’
Author and blogger Cal Newport shares his three secrets to finding fulfilling work.
By Eric Siu
Thought Leaders
8 Tech Skills Entrepreneurs Must Have to Succeed
Tech mastery is not invariably necessary to success launching a business but tech competence is indispensable.
By John Rampton
Business News
13 Highly Useful Skills You Can Learn in a Minute
Everyone loves a good life hack, especially if it's super quick to pick up.
Building a Business
Want to Take Your Business to the Next Level? Boost Your Marketing and Coding Skills.
Thanks to the Internet, finding places to learn and build these skills conveniently and cost-effectively has never been easier.
Building a Business
10 Skills That Are Hard to Learn But Pay Off Forever
The best things in life may be free, but that doesn't mean they won't take time, sweat and perseverance to acquire.
Building a Business
Amping Up Employee Tech Skills Is a Bargain With These 4 Tools
Many inexpensive apps and online courses are available to teach skills that are in demand.
Building a Business
The 6 Skills Every Successful Entrepreneur Needs
If you could interview 200 of the top entrepreneurs in the country, do you think you'd find some similarities?
By Lewis Howes
Thought Leaders
3 Mental Strategies That Can Get You Past a Business Failure Fast
If you can master these three key actions, you can get past any failure and move toward success.
By Jeremy Bloom
Building a Business
20 Lists Every Entrepreneur Should Create
There is absolutely no way a leader can succeed without obsessively maintaining lists of resources and projects.
By Andrew Cohen
Building a Business
The 4 Resources Every Professional Needs to Succeed
Careers, presuming a dollop of luck, are shaped by the relationships we build, skills we learn, our character and how hard we're willing to work.
Building a Business
3 Vital Things to Consider Before Starting a Business
So you have the qualities needed to be an entrepreneur. But before you charge headlong into your own venture, think these issues through.
Thought Leaders
For the Most Productive Workplace, Assign Employees the Work They Do Best
Researchers are finding managers get much more from employees by playing to their strengths than trying to bolster their weaknesses.
Thought Leaders
10 Tips for Women to Improve Their Persuasion Skills
Persuasion propels a leader forward. The good news: Persuasion is a major strength for women.
By Yvonne Gu
Building a Business
7 Strategies for Kicking Your Startup Into High Gear
McKinsey's Seven Ss framework can help you transform your venture to achieve faster growth.
Tech
The 5 Non-Technical Skills Any Great Developer Needs in Order to Advance
It takes more than just technical skills to move up the ranks as a software developer.
Thought Leaders
The One Trait All Successful Entrepreneurs Have
This quality is what separates true entrepreneurial types from the pack.
Business News
American Millennials Among the World’s Least Skilled, Report Says
Surprised? So were the researchers who tested and compared workers in 23 countries.
By Anne Fisher