10 Tips to stay motivated

Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin

The success, prosperity and professional growth were some of the wishes of many of us at the beginning of the year. But as we make our wishes are not left stranded just start the year. INC magazine as usual, made a series of recommendations that can help entrepreneurs not to lose the energy, joy and strength to undertake during the year. Many of these recommendations may seem a cliché, but that does not mean that these are not effective or not be implemented. What is certain is that these tips can make our day lighter and more productive.

Lack of time is no excuse. Make time in your schedule to invest in their own personal and professional motivation. Draw a plan with a commitment to yourself to follow it.

See what you think of these tips to keep you motivated

1. A healthy mind in healthy body. Positive thoughts bring benefits to physical health and vice versa. Therefore, betting on a balanced diet and physical activity practice whenever you have time.

2. Stay away from negative people. The envious are always on duty. The best thing is to keep your ideas, successes and discoveries away from such people.

3. Encourage people around you. Positivity is contagious and can turn a listless team in some people more united and prepared when facing difficulties.

4. Do not rely both your goals. Over the months, priorities may change. Be flexible and do not adhere well to old ideas. Do not forget to take charge of your actions, both good and bad.

5. Remember your roots. Visit their former school or the neighborhood where he lived, such actions may raise important memories, making you remember the path it has traveled so far.

6. Do not be such a perfectionist. There is no doubt that want everything to be perfect is what every entrepreneur should keep in mind before starting any project.

But like everything in life, perfectionism, over complicated and makes the satisfaction never reach. Bet on excellence rather than the intangible.

7. Celebrate your mistakes. It is not uncommon for good grades do not remember we have gained throughout our career, however it is likely that you have not forgotten the poor grades he got.

Is that just the greatest lessons are learned from failure. Know the best out of all situations, including and especially of the worst. Nor let soften for success.

8. Think before you speak. The top says it’s no coincidence that we have two ears and one mouth.

9. Grow your affections. Take time to keep friends and family present. The friends we focus, place us as the family, do not forget these with the excuse that they do not have time.

10. Take care of your health. Get regular checkups and be aware of any changes that occur in your body. All evil is curable if detected early, keep that in mind. Without health, there is no way to stay motivated.

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5 ways to be more efficient when working at home

Posted on January 14, 2012 by admin

To work at home you must have discipline, otherwise you are exposed to not only lose time but at the end of the month you will feel that he is the world over for its inefficiency does not give you money. This is not for everyone and here on this site have given countless tips for people who forced by necessity or because they really like, working at home. What follows are the experiences of famous people, especially writers, illustrating the way they do or did to produce from their homes.

1. The neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of several books, is always have a notebook to write down his ideas anywhere, even in the pool or pool.

One of his books was written in the interval training in a pool. The manuscript was delivered to the publisher with ink spots over water.

2. American writer Jonathan Franzen does the opposite: He enclosed in an office with low light, soundproof walls and windows covered.

Without any noise. He immerses himself, after breakfast and start producing.

3. The written Portuguese Nobel literature, José Saramago, writing two pages a day. To be good, no doubt, was enough to publish one book a year.

4. The writer Ernest Hemingway liked to write very early, when there was no noise disturbed him and the day is still fresh.

He used to foot with a hostel and book lists the number of words written per day on a blackboard. When the board was full of productive days, took a license to go fishing.

5. Instead Truman Capote, American writing, was an author “horizontal”. He wrote lying in bed or a sofa. He was always cigarette at hand and coffee, as its first versions were on hand.

Interesting how these people stay productive. In the background lies, a strong commitment and an hard discipline and how do you stay productive at home.

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Lessons from entrepreneurs to stay productive

Posted on January 1, 2012 by admin

lesson entrepreneur 300x161 Lessons from entrepreneurs to stay productive Staying productive during a strenuous work day is the ideal of all people who are trying to achieve goals in a company or a business, in fact many who once said his hope that the day had about 30 hours. Many entrepreneurs try to find an answer and a formula to “stretch” their productive time and to avoid depletion extenuates they leave the workdays. What follow are the tips given by different entrepreneur and INC magazine, picked for people who are on that road more productive and do a better job. This is the advice.

1. Leave everything and go to bed. The president and editorial director of the Portal Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington says that the trick she uses to be more efficient to “stop doing what you are doing and go to sleep a little.”

Nobody in their right mind is going to oppose you, to be more productive, must rest.

2. Be consistent. As much as we are tired or not feeling able to produce anything else, try to be consistent. It’s what bestselling author advises, Stephen King, which undertakes to write 10 pages a day, including weekends and holidays.

That is common among writers, but can be an excellent way to discipline an entrepreneur to get to work even in difficult times.

3. Go to the gym or running. For Richard Branson, Virgin Group chairman, that is a solution to be more productive. Branson says that exercise gives you a daily equivalent of four hours of productivity per day.

4. Play online. For Stephen Gillet, vice-president of Starbucks digital projects, online games let you interact with other players and their developing solutions for specific problems in your work.

5. Keep a manual performance. For the investor Shiram ram is always good to keep a journal about their performance. Itemize in that time you were more productive conditions or had a great success or failure is key for people who are concerned about their productivity. This way you always know how to behave.

6. Fire your assistant. That’s what I advised Larry Page, Google co-founder who realized that his assistant programs, both he and Sergey Brin, unproductive meetings to which they did not wish to attend. Now people just ask them whether they wish to attend other meetings planned.

7. Use the hours of Sunday to catch up with emails, because in this way on Monday as a good start, and have a very productive week.

This is advised the manager of the business side of the Harper’s Bazaar magazine, Carol Smith, who spends four hours of Sunday to answer all mail that has accumulated.

Really interesting topic and you, What things made to be more productive?

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Leadership complexity reducer

Posted on December 24, 2011 by admin

Leadership complexity reducer 300x218 Leadership complexity reducer The maxim “seemingly simple solutions to complex problems” by Giorgio Nardone and Paul Watzlawick (1987), represents the formal start of a collaboration between two scientists who made significant contributions “reducing complexity” for the study of human interaction in the context of the organizations. The rejection of these researchers to strong theories “autoinmunizantes” (Karl Popper), they can determine “a priori” the logic of interventions to understand and improve the functioning of human systems, you can find parallels in considerations of Joseph S . Nye, on theories of leadership, skilled in his recently published book in Spain. I think the translation of the title of the original edition (2007) “The Powers to Lead: Soft, Hard and Smart” better reflects what is described below, so I apologize for referring the title chosen by the Spanish publisher.

In recent decades, scholars have conducted more than a thousand studies to determine the styles, qualities or personality traits of great leaders and identify situations in which each style or approach would be more appropriate. None of these studies has provided a clear profile of the leader or leadership definitions generally agreed, not a dominant paradigm for study. In addition, there is little agreement among experts on the best strategies to develop and exercise leadership in organizations.

Many studies have generated useful but, unfortunately, approaches or theories resulting empirical problems too, with mixed results measurement and definition, creating a highly complex, both analytically and the practical application, which grew in a geometric-exponential.

Currently, the problem of how to align teams with the definition of objectives and strategy is one manifestation of the difficulty of the directors in the exercise of leadership. The lack of alignment is often reflected in the daily work and that doubts began to emerge of how to act, what style to use, how to adapt the style to the situation, the context and the needs of followers.

Hopefully, in these times of uncertainty and turbulence, was so easy to analyze the leadership styles as outlined in the two-dimensional matrix of Blake and Mouton (1964). Or that the leader’s charisma was the decisive element for the followers actually follow him. On this point as Max Weber said that charisma arises from the relationship between the leader and his followers, and is not an exclusive feature of the leader. He also said that only lasts personal charisma “while receiving recognition and can satisfy their followers or disciples.” Continue reading →

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Settlement Attempts

Posted on December 17, 2011 by admin

Strategic Problem Solving 300x227 Settlement Attempts Clearly we live in a time of attempted solutions. The crisis is omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent. Everyone tries to put an end to highly problematic situations, some successful, others less so, and some seem to possess special skills continuously threshing failure paths.

Leaving aside the questions invade us daily macroeconomic, without permission, the comfortable illusion of security provided by our inevitable self-deceptions optimistic, we can try to focus on what we do or fail to do in our own spheres of control or influence.

If we can afford this “luxury” of concentration, perhaps not so difficult to realize that some of the solutions or attempted solutions we apply to our areas are the basis for continuation or worsening of some of our problems. No doubt, as its name suggests, these attempts are always aimed at solving rationally and are clearly the result of the best intentions of each of us. As Oscar Wilde said the wise: “With the best intentions, we get often the worst effects.”

Although for some this may seem awkward or even a sense be regarded as a particularly pessimistic or negative view of the essence of being human, the fact is that this is something studied and scientifically verified. More than four decades scientists called “Palo Alto” formulated the construct of “attempted solutions” and their importance in solving human problems, based on the results of their research. As Giorgio Nardone said, referring to the work of their teachers, in his book Strategic Problem Solving (2010): “The construct of the attempted solution does not work but if it repeats tends to maintain the persistence of the problem and complicate its operation can be considered one of the most brilliant insights of the last century. ” Continue reading →

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Strategic Intervention and Problem Solving

Posted on December 10, 2011 by admin

Strategic Intervention 264x300 Strategic Intervention and Problem SolvingThe strategic intervention under the Strategic Problem Solving Model

What is it?

This is the application of a form of research through which hone specific intervention strategies that can be applied to different contexts, from the individual level (coaching and counseling) and / or clinical (therapy) the scope of organizations (problem solving), the “research and intervention.” This particular methodology starts from the assumption that to see how a problem is first necessary to introduce a change.

Kurt Lewin (1946), in the field of social psychology, defined as action research methodology to study this phenomenon on the ground, changing events and experimental empirically by observing the effects of the changes made. The way in which the person, system or organization responding to this change, will reveal the functioning of relationships. In other words, a problem known through its solution, therefore, is not the kind of problem which we will reveal the ideal solution (“learn to change”), but given the type of solution that will reveal how to work the problem situation (“change to know”).

How it works?

Analyses by a strategic problem-solver, on the situation object of intervention, focus on the operating modes of problem situations and actions that maintain the problem, avoiding the predictable resistance to change caused by the investigation of the origin, of “guilt and blame.”

Your first concern is to adapt one’s knowledge to the “reality” part has to face, developing strategies based on the objectives to be achieved, and in a position to adapt step by step, the evolution of “reality”.

The solution strategies, always oriented to a specific objective and agreed upon, constructed based on a self-correcting model and exempt from the conditioning imposed by any strong theory of reference. We believe that the value of a “theory” depends on your actual intervention capacity, measured in terms of efficiency and effectiveness in solving the problem.

How long?

The intervention was developed in four subsequent phases, throughout the period just need to reestablish operational functionality or achieve the proposed objective. Always bearing in mind the context of efficiency and effectiveness, develop strategic intervention as an action plan rigorous, yet flexible, North by specific, measurable, agreed and achievable within a tight schedule and the minimum resources necessary.

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