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Management & Strategy

Five practical ideas for visual notes - 02/27/2017

Visual notes have a lot of practical benefits. They can be used for project planning, to prepare for a journey, for sketches of impressions, for writing recipes or learning foreign languages. Now you need Instagram not for selfies but for snapshots of your notes. Creating sketches can be easy and inspiring. Let's try? Sketches and project planning Sketches are well suited for project...

Conscious investment wins increasingly more supporters - 02/24/2017

Investment in projects not related to the military industry, violation of human rights or harmful to environment, keep growing every year. Their total volume has already reached several trillion dollars. Corporations has long been forced to take into account opinions of consumers who might not want to buy their goods produced in violation of the ethical norms. Recently, investment funds also...

Why you need mental flexibility - 02/17/2017

When we are overtaken by a problem, our brain pushes the panic button. Yet, if you develop flexibility of thought, you will be easy-going about any challenge. Here are things worth to remember. Everyone comes to a standstill sometimes. Stagnant situations are inevitable. No matter how conscious you behave or how well you negotiate - you will always be faced with difficult circumstances and...

Stop saying 'I don't have time' - 02/08/2017

There are many indicators that can identify a successful person, but everyone knows that a prosperous man does not complain about lack of time. He knows that a week consists of 168 hours, which can be used to complete everything it time. So what to do to control your time? Once a week, pencil in two hours of free time and equip yourself with a planning tool. This may be Outlook, Google Calendar,...

Five marketing lessons to capture your clients' hearts - 01/30/2017

It is no secret that effective marketing is essential for success. However, any business owner sooner or later encounters a simple question: how to promote products and services to achieve worthwhile results. Lesson №1: Do not forget about websites and social networks Indeed, loyal customers and word of mouth make the magic happen. However, do not delude yourself that it frees you from the...

Satya Nadella, cricket and Microsoft's unequivocal success - 01/20/2017

«Microsoft has been created to do a certain set of things. We provide people in organizations around the world with an opportunity to achieve more." So said Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella at a conference of IT professionals IT-Ignite, organized by Microsoft in Atlanta. Satya Nadella’s coming to power at Microsoft fundamentally changed the Redmond company. "Microsoft is cool again," - wrote The...

BlackRock: "Golden parachutes" may cause shareholder rebellion - 01/16/2017

BlackRock, one of the world’s leading investment companies, called on British companies to cut huge compensation and pension payments to top managers. BlackRock says that otherwise the companies will be facing a "shareholders’ rebel". Investment company BlackRock has called on the largest British companies to stop paying huge remuneration and pensions to top managers at the expense of ordinary...

How to push aside all obstacles and get the result - 01/13/2017

The best way to achieve success is to get rid of obstacles and constraints that stand in your way. Ask yourself a question: "What exactly is stopping me from moving to the goal?" And eliminate the problem. Greg McKeon explained how to do it properly. Look for a cause, not for a symptom Usually people perform tasks randomly. They react to crises rather than anticipate them. So when problems are...

Yahoo! waves goodbye to Marissa Mayer - 01/10/2017

Yahoo! announced changes after completion of the transaction with Verizon, within which the operator will buy the media giant’s main assets. Yahoo! will part with its general director Marissa Mayer and several other top managers, and, in addition, will change its name to Altaba to be in tact with current situation in the company. After completion of transaction for sale of some of its assets to...

Concentration: The first step to success - 12/09/2016

Psychiatrist and world-renowned expert on ADD (attention deficit syndrome) Edward Hallowell says that ability to concentrate is key to success. In his book "Driven to Distraction at Work" he tells about how to learn to control attention, to see life deeply, understand more and work wisely. Symptoms of attention deficit come unnoticed at first. Usually people start to become irritated over...
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