A new business startup company [alike as a new startup in life] is not always a very easy situation. Most of the times, it is a very tricky situation and demands a lot of resources and mental capabilities from all the involved parties.
Takis Athanassiou
A Story of 2 Clients
Have you heard the old saying for the clients, that in business, “the customer is always right“? Right! Wrong, I would say. Or rather, I would have to continue, that it depends on the client. Usually, customers and clients are not always right, but they expect to be treated as such! And that many times, became, very difficult.
Thought Leadership: A New Mime Or A Roadmap To Business Success
Thought Leadership is a new addition in our business vocabulary, trying to integrate various concepts under one catch-all buzzword. And successfully too, given its widespread usage. In simple terms describes a person or an organization that he/she/it is an authority in his/her/it field. But it is also and a new solution for individuals and business, providing new approaches, tools, ideas and ready-made innovation that can direct the market to new trends and ways, more successful and profitable sometimes [!!!].
Characteristics of a Good Leader [Infographic]
Leadership is at the core of every successful, and not so successful, organization around the world. Leadership starts from the top and trickles down to the last person hired at an organization. Everyone knows what leadership is and who may be a great leader, but if you had to define great leadership what would your response be?
Personal Startups – A Point Of View & A Personal Roadmap!
Personal startups are always a favorite subject of mine. I had some, in my time. And always, I wondering about the hows, whys, and whats of each situation. Every time [!!!].
A Strategy For Internet Resources: How To Share & Why
As a web user, that spends a lot of his time, professionally, on the internet, I found, from time to time, articles and posts of value, I usually, when come across, a resource I think that would interest my readers, friends or associates I try to pass it as soon as possible via various channels (mostly Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pinterest).
Strategy vs. Tactics – How To Use Them Effectively?
Strategy and Tactics are common denominators in business, society, relationships, etc, signify the importance of these concepts in our every day, short- and long-term activities.
Most of the times, these concepts are confused with the result most people to use them with very limited results. Sun Tzu, argues, that:
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The strategy is a resource and a tool, that, we, all, unanimously agreed, that should be used, more today, by people and organizations, for bringing better results. But it is not. And it is often confused with the tactics employed for achieving a certain situation. It seems that there is a tag war between strategy vs. tactics, leaving, always, short the strategy side of the equation.
Taking Some Time Off – Vacation Time For Myself
It is that time of the year, that you start to feel you need a little vacation time! Or a little time for you and your family. To do things that you normally don’t do, goofy things, interesting thing, challenging things, “or else” things, or in layman’s term, whatever things!
For me, this means that I would be out of my normal activities from July 24th until August 15th.
Writebox: A Versatile Text Productivity Tool
One of my favorite productivity tools is a text editor for the Google Chrome called Writebox. It is one of the small tools, that if you use a lot of files, can enhance your productivity, many times over.
I write a lot! And that involves a lot of the things: Notes, code, a short memo, tasks, forget me not type of things, outlines, ideas, writing for me, etc. I use various tools with different functionality for performing my writing tasks.
Instructional Design As A Discipline! What Can Do For Your Business
Instructional design is a multi-disciple domain, involving pedagogy, training, design, systems’ knowledge, mentoring, community building, mediation, leadership, distance, on-the-job and at hand, learning, knowledge elicitation, facilitation management and channeling, human development, creativity, out-of-the-box mental framework, tools mastering, presentation skills, to name only a few. All these (and some more) are vital and legitimate components of the Instructional Design practice.
How to Develop a New Skill, Fast!
Do you know how to develop a new skill? We live, work and operate in an age where the skills development is a sine qua non ability for our advancement in our personal and professional life. Moreover, our ability to learn new things, to use them in our everyday life and to, quick, forget them (when our knowledge and skills are no longer valid), is one of the main features of our new knowledge economy.
For this reason, it is very important to have a way for quick and efficient skills development, which would permit us, the effortless adaptation to the new conditions and an efficient decision making either in personal or professional level.
Skills development is not that difficult. But it needs time and dedication to prove its results. Let’s see how!
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