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Top 4 posts of 2011

We compiled a list of the top 4 posts for the year 2011 and here is the list. The Fuss about Good Debt and Bad Debt This is an article on dealing with debt. Debt, if not used properly can affect your life and your personality. This is a must read for anyone who wants to get a grip on his finances. Click here to read the article… How to Start a Construction Business This is a great article... 

The Importance of Goal Setting

In this interview Gary Ryan Blair, popularly known as the Goals Guy talks about the importance of goal setting and how setting (or not setting) goals affects us in our day-to-day lives. This is part 2 of the interview with Gary Ryan Blair.  If you want to read part 1 of the interview, please click here. Vinil: How important is goal setting? I would assume that goal setting is part of the personal... 

Interview with Goals Guy – Gary Ryan Blair : Part 1

This is an interview with Gary Ryan Blair often referred to as the “Goals Guy.” He is the author of the best selling book “Everything Counts: 52 remarkable ways to inspire excellence and drive results”. In this interview he talks about how people should consciously create a personal strategic plan for themselves just like how major corporations do. His handbooks, training programs and consulting... 

How to Hire a Great CEO

“To hire a GREAT CEO, the work must be put in on the front end. That means ADEQUATELY TRAINED INTERVIEWERS, building the interviewing team, an accurate job description, and writing effective interview questions. If you get lazy or take shortcuts on any of these upfront steps, you’re likely to sabotage the hiring results you achieve on the backend. What’s at stake here is the success or failure... 

Qualities of A Great CEO

Patricia Thompson, a corporate psychologist who works with companies and does psychological assessments on candidates for high-level positions writes in great detail about some of the qualities required to be a great CEO. The qualities a company looks for in a CEO can vary somewhat, depending on the organization’s culture and the state of the business.  For example, companies in turn-around or... 

3 Ways To Get More Leads For Your Business

End of the day business is about getting more leads and closing those leads. If you already have too many leads, then you are probably doing something right. This article is for people who want to generate more leads for their business. Lead Source #1: Press releases Press releases are a FREE way of generating leads for your business. A press release is a statement you send out to the media that you... 

The Most Important Quality in Leadership

Change comes at us like a huge wave in the ocean and we need to be ready to jump high or dive down. We never know which is best till that moment of truth. The rest of the time we practice, practice, practice. It is vital for leaders to be flexible physically, emotionally, and mentally. Once we get stuck in patterned responses we start a chain of events that lead to old ways of solving problems. In... 

Confessions of a Workaholic

I built a business once when I was a young single mother, a long, long time ago. It supported us well. I got tired and started looking for a partner, in life…in business…who knows. I found both. After working together for five years, I was broke. Manual labor business is like that. Many service industries rely heavily on the back, legs and knees. My tendons and bones gave up simply because I was... 

10 Questions To Ask Before Starting A Business

In this bleak economy, lots of people are contemplating striking out on their own — whether they’re frustrated job seekers or people who are already employed but getting antsy about their company’s prospects. For some people, entrepreneurship is the best option around, a way to build wealth and do something you love without answering to somebody else. But it’s also a huge financial... 

Understanding the Power of Intention

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Dr Wayne Dyers The last week I read an article on the Power of Intention written by Harv Eker. Harv believes that if there is something that you really want and you have a compelling reason for wanting it, then the universe will give it to you. I have been researching further on this topic and I came across a video...