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3 TOP PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF MARCH 9, 2015
Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.
4 Signs Your Team Has What It Takes to Compete
By: Craig Cincotta
No matter what industry you are in, there is one certainty every business needs to prepare for: competition.
It doesn’t matter if you are a startup or a Fortune 500 company, you are vying for dollars and mindshare against people who have the same vision and ambition as you. Read More
My Comment: Excellent article on being a team
4 Types of Lights Control Mood of Room
By: Sarah Colburn
Jessica Soldner of Discrete Designs likens great lighting to an amazing photograph: The viewer may not always be able to pinpoint exactly what makes it stand out but most often, she said, it’s the lighting. Read More
My Comment: Excellent article on setting the mood with lighting
SEO: Measuring Key Performance Indicators
By: Jill Kocher
One of the most rewarding aspects of improving an ecommerce site is the ability to measure the bottom-line impact of your search engine optimization program.
Conversion measurement is theoretically simple with ecommerce: Did the visitor buy something? Informational sites have to approximate engagement with vague measures, like newsletter sign-ups and coupon downloads. Ecommerce sites typically count these among their conversion types as well, but the ability to track impact on revenue is central to performance measurement. From revenue, you may even be able to measure profit and calculate other specific business drivers. Read More
My Comment: Does your SEO work?
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Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.
Super Bowl XLIX: Patriots beat Seahawks for Brady’s fourth title
By Ollie Williams, for CNN
Where Katy Perry needed a big cat, the New England Patriots were carried to a stunning comeback by the resilience of Tom Brady. Read More
My Comment: Congratulations Patriots!
Managing Emotions in the Workplace: Do Positive and Negative Attitudes Drive Performance?
You know the type: coworkers who never have anything positive to say, whether at the weekly staff meeting or in the cafeteria line. They can suck the energy from a brainstorming session with a few choice comments. Their bad mood frequently puts others in one, too. Their negativity can contaminate even good news. “We engage in emotional contagion,” says Sigal Barsade, a Wharton management professor who studies the influence of emotions on the workplace. “Emotions travel from person to person like a virus.” Read More
My Comment: Excellent article on communication
What Are the 10 Greatest Inventions of Our Time?
By: Daniel Schlenoff
A competition sponsored in 1913 by Scientific American asked for essays on the 10 greatest inventions. The rules: “our time” meant the previous quarter century, 1888 to 1913; the invention had to be patentable and was considered to date from its “commercial introduction.” Read More
My Comment: Innovation is essential to progress.
3 TOP PEAK PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF JANUARY 26, 2015
Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.
10 Medical Breakthroughs That Sound Like Science Fiction
These high-tech innovations just might save your life
By: Denny Watkins
The news that comes out of research universities and hospitals often sounds too hopeful: Here’s a gene that maybe, could potentially end obesity. This newly discovered protein pathway might sort-of, some day cure cancer. Do any of the thousands of studies published each year result in a meaningful change in someone’s life? Read More
My Comment: Grow life
Coach K Earns Career Win No. 1,000 in No. 5 Duke’s Win Over St. John’s
By: Scott Phillips
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski reached a milestone by winning game No. 1,000 as the No. 5 Blue Devils bested St. John’s 77-68 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.The Philippines will continue to rapidly change in 2015. Read More
My Comment: Congratulations Coach K!
9 Numbers Business Owners Need To Know
By: Rhonda Abrams
Every small-business owner needs to know some numbers – total revenue, profit margins, coast of goods, and the like. But there are other numbers that every entrepreneur needs to know to stay competitive and succeed. Read More
My Comment: What metrics/numbers drive your business?
Entrepreneurial Shift: Better Results In Less Time
While networking I met a guy who had the same twelfth grade English teacher as me. He asked, what do I remember about her? I said, “she liked tools”. Besides teaching English, she felt a sense of nostalgia when she saw tools neatly stored on a peg board in a tool shed. I also remembered, it being the first time I gave a speech. Preparing was a daunting task; however, she gave the class a tool for speech preparation. Her tool was to open with something memorable to get the audience’s attention. Therefore, I opened my speech in French.
There is also an entrepreneurial thinking tool to be entrepreneurial. People associate being entrepreneurial with starting a business. This is a form of entrepreneurship, however, there is intrapreneurship (corporate entrepreneurship), and the application of entrepreneurial thinking in our work and daily living. People focus on creating a better service or product to be entrepreneurial. How do they come up with a creative innovative idea?
There are several entrepreneurial thinking tools to stimulate entrepreneurial ideas and determine whether your service and/or product are entrepreneurial. One of my entrepreneurial thinking tools is a simple graph showing better results vs. less time.
If your service and/or product can produce better results but not in less time then it’s not entrepreneurial. If your service and/or product can’t produce a better result but can be done in less time it’s not entrepreneurial. However, if your service and/or product can produce better results in less time then it’s entrepreneurial.
Examples: Carriage buggy vs. car, typewriter vs. computer, ship vs. plane, shorter route to work, learn a tip to make something easier to do in less time, no internet vs. internet, land line vs. cell phone, no exercise vs. exercise, no nutrition vs. nutrition
Therefore, take a look at the marketplace. Can you create an entrepreneurial shift (ES) by raising the bar to produce better results in less time? How about applying the tool in your productivity at work or in something you are passionate about at home?
By having an entrepreneurial tool you’ll reduce apathy and create natural endorphins seizing opportunity and stimulating you to the next level of success.
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