Placing yourself in someone else's shoes can be extremely hard. Recently I wrote an article about a lesson we can learn from Abraham Lincoln. Today, I found this fantastic empathy experiment on Ted.com. It is a great experiment and will take you on a journey to understand the world from the perspective of others.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 14, 2010
If I told you there is a way that you could increase your turnover, without even spending any money, would you be interested? Of course you would! You probably spent money on silly things that promised you extra turnover or profit, but actually didn't do anything other than costing you money... Well, let me explain how to do it... for free!
Continue reading...Saturday, October 2, 2010
"Work smart, not hard". Isn't this a big cliche? Doesn't everyone dream of working smart and not hard? And doesn't it turn out differently all the time? Let me explain how you too can work smart instead of hard, and make more money while you're at it! Here's how I did it...
Continue reading...Saturday, September 25, 2010
You are going into business with a partner, who has developed 2 fantastic products. The first product is a prevention against cancer, that people have to take every day. The second is a cure for cancer, which you take once when you have cancer and heals you. If you have only enough money to market one of these, which would you choose?
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Currently I am holding some job interviews for one of my companies. We've held job interviews for other positions in the past as well, and there are some things that strike me when I interview these people. Some positive, some negative. Most people do the same thing that all the others do too. So in order to make sure you don't make those mistakes; I have put together a list of the my best tips. These tips may well be worth tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars to you. Maybe they will even defy monetary value for you, by giving you something that makes you truly happy: the job of your dreams!
Continue reading...Sunday, June 13, 2010
Recently I posted about location independency. This is one of the great opportunities that the Internet has given us. But it also means that we need to adopt our management strategy, to match the location independency of our team. The Results Only Work Environment is a proven strategy used by a few very successful companies (large and small) to do just that.
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 9, 2010
From time to time we have to bring people bad news. Luckily, we also have good news to bring them now and then, so all is not lost. But how do we make sure that we take advantage of good news, and we minimize the impact of bad news?
Continue reading...Sunday, June 6, 2010
The current economic crisis has led to a lot of new insights in how we should deal with our economy. On of those insights is that it seems that big bonuses don't seem to work well. The banks of who the top executives had huge bonuses, haven't exactly performed very well. There is a different way to get results, and would you believe me if I told you this has actually been scientifically proven and has been known for over 60 years?
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 19, 2010
There is a principle that is widely used amongst successful entrepreneurs, and especially those with the aim of making money. This principle is called the OTOM principle: Other people's Time and Other people's Money.
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The concept of win-win was introduced by Stephen Covey. A win-win situation is one where both parties in an agreement 'win'. For example a customer of mine wants a special software application. I know that I can sell the same application to another customer, with a few minor modifications. So I give my customer a discount (his win) in return for the right to sell the application to another customer (my win). In this situation I have applied 3 rules for creating a win-win. If you use these rules you will make sure that any agreement you will make is a win-win agreement.
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