Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot started the world's first venture capital firm, American Research & Development (ARD). Professor Doriot said,
"I want money to do things that have never been done before."
If reading sentences like this gives you a boner, then now's the time to start your own ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
I'm a big fan of Pamela Slim and her mentor, Martha Beck. Martha has a break-it-down methodology for success that she calls the 4 Day Win. Check it out. I have always believed that the way to achieve a big goal is to break it down to ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The Positivity Blog gives us five reasons to say something nice.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Positivity Blog discusses a handful of Mr. Penney's most positive and energizing quotes.
“We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”
“It is the service we ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Want to feel humble in a hurry? Mir Imran, CEO of InCube Labs, has started 20 different companies and has over 200 patents. He's not just a serial entrepreneur, he's a parallel entrepreneur, running 8 companies at a time. Here is Mir Imran speaking at Stanford.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I've written before about how important I think it is to provide encouragement to the people around you - your staff, your supervisor, your clients, your friends and family. Everyone needs encouragement!
Blogger Dave Cheong wrote a great post on the topic of providing encouragement that I commend to you.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I got the biggest laugh out of this post from Brad Isaac's excellent blog.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
My boss never misses an opportunity to praise someone in public. And I'm not talking the typical butter up, either - he'll be saying "Scott this" and "Scott that," and I'll be looking around making sure there's not another Scott in the room. He is, in the ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
I'm a big fan of Penelope Trunk's blog, and I particularly enjoyed this article. She argues that while our internal set-point for happiness may be genetically predispositioned,
... you can make a 40% impact on your optimism level by changing your daily routine in relatively small ways - like doing a ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
My friend Richard Pachter reviews two books that tell us how to deal with the beginning of a new week. As Deepak might say, "Monday is pure potential struggling for manifestation."
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