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You Can Build a Better Community One Entrepreneur and One Breakthrough at a Time

I believe that you can make a huge contribution to your community through what you do. Let me describe how some individuals have greatly helped others. Can a single person make a big difference in society? Of course! Naturally, no one can do all that is required alone. Others will either decide they like what they see and follow, or the benefits will be so great that they will reach even those who never hear about the difference-maker.

Primary topic: Management Skills

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Seven Lessons for Profiting from Gaining the Right Experience

Almost everyone would like to be more successful in earning a living. Yet many people report that putting forth greater effort leads to actually accomplishing less. How can that be? Well, it takes learning from experience to become more successful. If you seek experience just by trying things on your own, it takes a lot of mistakes before you learn enough lessons to avoid mistakes often enough to mark an improvement. By putting in more effort, you initially just increase the day-to-day frequency of mistakes. Oops!

Primary topic: Management Skills

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Do All The Business You Can

While I'm driving on the highway, I often find my compact car hemmed in by high-powered sports cars proceeding at well below the speed limit, despite having engines that could easily speed up to 140 miles per hour. What's with that? Well, many people are more interested in putting on a show than in actually accomplishing more. These drivers probably want to have the fastest look at the curb, rather than on the road. Consider, instead, that in many business activities performance ultimately counts for much more than appearance.

Primary topic: Management Skills

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Start The Best Business You Can

I just started teaching a new class of aspiring entrepreneurs. One of them asked at the end of the first meeting, "Are you going to tell me what's the best business for me to start?" He was surprised when I said "no" and told him, instead, about places where he could find lots of statistics about profitability and growth for various kinds of businesses as a way to begin narrowing down the possibilities.

Primary topic: Management Skills

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What Will You Work On Now?

In business, one skill rises above all others in determining how much success will occur: choosing the right task to work on next. Let me explain why I came to that conclusion. While working as director of strategic planning for a Fortune 200 company, I recall a time when my list of "official" assignments had 112 items on it. As you can imagine, I wasn't going to get around to doing most of those tasks, even if I just delegated them.

Primary topic: Management Skills

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