Most people don’t realize the difference between success and failure is often very small. If you were headed to the moon and were off just 1 degree, you'd miss your target by 4,169 miles.
Here’s the funny part. I ended up becoming successful in an industry I originally had NO interest in being in at first. Yes, that’s right. I wanted to find something else but my true path was in front of my eyes.
All too often we get stuck in ruts. Not necessarily intentionally but sometimes life just seems to “get in the way”. We get derailed by the day to day part of living.
Honestly, I think it comes from within to a major degree. To become anything in life the drive has to come from you. Nobody else can instill you with lasting motivation. Motivation can't be given, you have to want with a passion so big that you become unstoppable
It's true that automation could overtake many jobs in the future. To ensure you're not replaceable by a machine, you need strong critical thinking skills, which include these four related skills. Sound the alarm! Robots are gunning for our jobs!
Celebrity entrepreneurs are nothing new. We hear about them all the time, especially in the tech world with names like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Each inspires awe and emulation (in part) because of the news they generate and the exciting lifestyles they lead.
You know, I’m tired of reading these articles about startups and unicorns landing millions upon millions of dollars of venture capital and running their “companies” like a frat house.
When it comes to growing a successful enterprise, some magazines and bloggers are always bursting with good advice. Each day sees the publication of “new” tips and lists praising the power of hard work, perseverance, vision, etc.
Fourteen years ago we started our firm based on a distributed workforce. At the time, there was a huge stigma around organizations that allowed employees to telecommute or work primarily from
Business is dog-eat-dog. It’s about the pursuit of profits above everything else — a pitiless Darwinian exercise in which the strong survive by treating their workers like medieval serfs.
For centuries, consumers have had a love/hate relationship with self-service. From the first coin-operating vending machines of the 1880s (which sold postcards) to ATMs, Internet shopping and
One of the most important things to remember is, you never know enough. The moment you think you know it all is the moment you fail because you’re frozen. You stop growing, stop learning and you become stagnant.
When people talk about success, they often wonder how to “hack” it or short cut it. What can they do to avoid the hard work to get right to what they want. The reality though is much different.
