In the middle of economic crises, is not easy to cooperate, either to make business and certainly, you can’t afford the practice of selecting clients. As it been said, extreme times dictates extreme measures. The problems are many, but the main one is that the most of the times, the involving parties are not always on a parity or have the same strength. Usually, one part is, usually, in more stronger bargaining position, dictating either roles, rules and behaviors not common in the trade practices or outputs unequal to the level of the bargain between the two parties.
Takis Athanassiou
The 5W+1H of Productivity
The 5W+1H productivity formula is a small shorthand that permits us to evaluate a given task or action from a productivity point of view. This scheme consists of a number of questions whose answer would provide us with all the necessary information and data for research or for evaluation of an action.
Strategic Infection Points & The Lost of Topple Rate
Strategic Infection Points, almost always bring a change in the business strategy. Today, many companies, experience a very acute condition of lagging behind many of their main competitors in producing the required products and services. Many companies today have abandoned their former leading place in favor of more “cautious” marketing positions, that would reassure them their, profit margin and their, if any, competitive advantages.
Do You Like Analog Systems?
I have to confess! I have and always had an affection for analog systems (paper-based productivity) using them for various purposes (ideas and thoughts recording, drawing, note-taking, etc.), even before the period a portable or mobile device became available in the market.
Business Model Conceptualization
In today’s market realities, it is important to have tools that would help you in building a more robust business model of your today or future business. Today, we live in a technological culture that offers a lot of tools for covering, almost any personal, professional or business need, in minimum price or at no cost.
A New Road Ahead For Doing Business
The old business rules have changed and new business rules have to be developed. Nowadays the things have been done in a different, even exotic, ways, totally different to earlier generations (both in personal and professional level). That, of course, is good. Or not? Is it progress, or is it something else. Perhaps a different approach in our new brave working systems should be employed or we should move towards a new ethic in business and work?
In any case, a new road lays ahead of us. It is our choice and responsibility to select it or forget it. But one thing we cannot do. We cannot neglect it! We should make a choice. Our choice!
Do You Keep a Secret?
What is the secret weapon for enhanced productivity? Do you think there is a secret in the enhanced productivity trend? Something no-one can tell you, or can express it, in a way you can use it in your everyday professional and personal life? Do you think that there is a super hush – hush secret formula that is been used by the most productive and prolific persons in this world, and you are left out?
Time Management in a New Era
Time management does have nothing to do with time! But it has a lot of doing with priorities.
But, how we define time management, today, and what different our interpretation has towards, similar, other “explanations“? It is only a matter of interpretation or a matter of the focus, that lead us to a different approach today. And if so, why we need something “different“?
A New Business Horizon
We live in very interesting times when new business realities and approaches have come into existence! Our business models have changed, along with our ways of doing and manipulate things. But the most interesting thing is, that along our way of doing day-to-day business, a new substratum it seems to emerge. A one signifies the development of a new business environment, in which, all us, would be summoned to work with!
Book Review: The Start-Up of You, by Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha
The Book: The Start-Up of You
Reid Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn and with the author Ben Casnocha have developed this wonderful and truly useful, book, called The start-Up of You. The subtitle of this book is more descriptive about the intentions and goals of the authors: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform your Career. And they offer an abandon of useful information, insights, knowledge and resources for empower you to that direction.
Kendo, Flow & Productivity
A long time ago, when I was young, besides my efficiency and productivity endeavors[!], I had the opportunity to involve with and study various martial arts, both from a physical as well as from a philosophical and a historical point of view. Even though never I have the time (or the ambition, for that matter) to reach to a belt, or go ahead to a higher level, I get some valuable lessons, that I use them later in my life, on various occasions.
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