Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
After watching the movie “House of the flying daggers” I decided that I want to intentionally focus on beautifying my immediate environment, activities and my services.
Part of making life meaningful is being receptive to experience the good and the beautiful that life has to offer.
I juggled with the idea for ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
A mission statement is a brief statement of purpose and priorities. A business’ mission statement, as per yesterday’s post, is very important to make sure that everyone in the business is working towards a common goal.
Herewith are mission statements of well-known companies:
Walt Disney -"To make people happy."
Google - "To organise ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
The new movement in business is to automate all business actions and to free up employees for high-level innovative contributions. As a result of this, employees will increasingly have to make important business related decisions.
For this reason, it is important that everyone in your company is very clear about what ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
In her book Clicking, Faith Popcorn and her team predicted that a window of opportunity for big earnings are ahead for “Tech-Knows” entrepreneurs.
Faith’s research showed that people are “cashing out” of the corporate environment to start their own businesses. She quoted numbers showing that in 1989 a total of 70% ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Following on yesterday’s post “The word is mightier …” I want to explore metaphors as a way to get new perspectives on old issues.
Metaphors can be used as a tool to understand challenges better and to approach it with innovation [Von Oech]. A metaphor is a figure of speech ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Entrepreneurs need to find and seize opportunities in their environment. Today, this environment is complex and volatile and therefore presents challenges to the entrepreneur. Language can be a powerful cognitive tool in increasing the ability to find solutions and new opportunities (see posts on questions, use of language, ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
In Bill Gates’ article on creative capitalism he explores the question of “How to most effectively spread the benefits of capitalism and the improvements in quality of life it can provide to people who have been left out”?
Wolf is convinced that globalisation has proven to be the best means of ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
The delay of gratification is the ability to purposefully defer immediate reward for the sake of delayed, but more desired future outcomes. The ability to persevere in an endeavour, in anticipation of larger gain, is an important indicator of psychological maturity [Hall & Lindzey].
Victor Frankl tells the story of ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Running a small / medium enterprise you sometimes find yourself drawn to one of two options when allocating your time and focus.
The one, being the big contracts and projects that bring in a bubble of income but that sometimes takes months to pull off. When you are used ...
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