By Takis Athanassiou | 6 mins read | Jan 19, 2015 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Personal Growth & Development, Technology, Tools & Automation
Entrepreneurship is a complex concept with very simple (and humble) origin. It is basically the process of developing a business, company, startup, organization or venture aiming at bringing something new (and needed) resource in the world! This is what I was thinking when I had finished the university and I still believe today. It is not about money. Or at least is not JUST for the money. Entrepreneurship, for me, is a disruptive process, aiming at fill in existing requirements (needs if you like) and manifest a new thing (item, commodity, resource, asset, etc) in the world.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 5 mins read | Nov 29, 2013 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
In our frenzy way of life, it is important for you, today, to set your personal boundaries. Setting your personal boundaries, in a clear, straightforward and unquestionable manner, is a way for you to protect yourself from the requirements of other people (including family, friends, co-workers, business associates, partners, etc). It is also, a personal responsibility and commitment to the things you want to do (in your life and for your life and the life of other people)!
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By Takis Athanassiou | 2 mins read | Jun 7, 2013 | Ideas, Books & Innovation, Personal Growth & Development, Productivity & Systems
Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters
One of the most inspiring books, I have ever read, is a book by Phillip C. Mcgraw, Ph.D.
entitled: Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters.
This book is focused on 10 life laws, providing a situation/life – strategy approach for resolving a given situation. The laws are presented in simple terms while the strategies described constitute small landmarks for rethinking given situations, most of the times we are not able to address in an effective way.
The main objective of Dr. Mcgraw, a behavior expert, is to make people review some well and long-established approaches and attitudes while he is providing possible ways for resolving situations we may find ourselves unable to resolve.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 3 mins read | Mar 7, 2013 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
Sometimes, there is a necessity to free space for important things to crawl in. There are times, that I found myself baffled, trying to cope with many different tasks and activities drive me to different directions, and, usually, try to juggle too many things at once. But this is impossible, of course, because very time and energy consuming to this task, and usually, without any result.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 3 mins read | Mar 1, 2013 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
There are 3 basic elements for personal development and success in personal and professional life. These are the commitment, the engagement in action and the cultivation. The commitment and the engagement in action are the two faces of a truly self-directed, goal and principle-based life and the two-thirds of a set of factors that includes the “cultivation”, which provides meaning, context and duration to the things we commit and engage.
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By Takis Athanassiou | 1 min read | Jan 10, 2013 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
Some times, it is true that:
A picture is worth a thousand words (From Wikipedia: A picture is worth a thousand words)
Here it is, an excellent illustration about leadership by Drew Albinson presenting the best features of the Leadership. Worth a look!
By Takis Athanassiou | 2 mins read | Dec 24, 2012 | Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
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By Takis Athanassiou | 4 mins read | Dec 17, 2012 | Entrepreneurship & Business Growth, Leadership & Coaching, Personal Growth & Development
Who are you going to be in 5 years? This is the million dollar (or Euros !!!) question. And is a tricky one, loaded with a lot of connotations, alluring you, the most times, to a more easy, more dreamy state of existence in which you become the hero of your life, solving just-in-hand complex problems and situations, becoming a limitless omnipotent creature, capable of succeeding in every situation.
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