Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Following yesterday’s post I would like to add the following strategies that I think can help to build a personal network:
5. Evaluate the diversity of you personal network of friends and family. Build a diverse network in terms of age, gender, culture, interest, seniority and background. ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Research has shown that networking is a crucial skill of entrepreneurs and it also increases the entrepreneur’s chance on being success. [Chell; Katz; McGrath, MacMillam & Scheinberg]
Below are a few random suggestions of how to build a successful personal network.
1. Get outside your own skin and connect with the world. ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
According to Frankl the highest level of functioning for human beings is when they are intentionally making meaning in life. When humans are making meaning they are experiencing the rewards and satisfaction that life can offer.
He believed that only a small minority of humans achieve this level of development ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
In a previous post I stated that sometimes our own negative thoughts are our worst enemy. Today I would like to discuss a few strategies one can employ to handle these thoughts [Seligman].
Distract negative thoughts
Make use of distraction strategies to stop ruminating (from Latin word meaning to chew over) ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
We had our usual cappuccino at Cramers, where I read the story of how Cramers was founded and its connection with the coffee world of San Francisco.
It made me realise that often when one is looking for new business opportunities you think it needs to be one of a kind ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
To spot an opportunity you have to be “outside”. You have to know what is going on around you and in the world. You have to be curious about the world. As per a previous post your personal networking system is an excellent way of knowing what is going on ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
My friend called it her elevator speech. It is a speech to successfully "sell" your business, cause, product or project within the few seconds you have while travelling with someone in the elevator.
She had changed her "elevator speech" from focusing on the merits of her projects (Deaf education) to ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Life happens. Challenges come. You experience resistance. Planned operations derail, etcetera.
How can one stay proactive?
Proactive: creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.
Step 1
I think a valuable first step is to ring fence the situation. It is ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Already in 1936 Dale Carnegie said that when entering into negotiations start by focusing on what the other party wants.
Find out what they are interested in and what they enjoy talking about and try to make that the mutual ground where you can meet.
Try and summarise what you think they ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Years ago I attended a talk on negotiating skills. The presenter told a story of a milling company that was in a "catch 22" situation with their major client. They depended on this client for their company’s survival. They had a few other clients but they were ...
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