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April 12, 2012
Quarterlife Crisis
I’m experiencing what I would like to term as quarter life crisis. I can hear the midlifers screaming in their heads “Wait a minute son, you don’t know anything about midlife crisis.” Well, I’m sure you’ve heard of that statement shouted out loud by yuppies. Midlife crisis happens for those in the middle adulthood stage. [...]
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March 5, 2012
The True Value of Titles
There is a prevailing belief many parents have that their child must enroll and graduate in a course that will give them and additional title to their name: Architect, Engineer, Doctor, Attorney, Professor, etc. And the young people who do chose to take these courses and positions think of these titles as proof completing the [...]
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February 22, 2012
Music Can be An Executive Therapy Too!
In the high pressure world of business, executives have different ways of blowing off steam. Some blow money on high priced toys, from exotic cars to expensive suits from Savile Row. Others take to the skies or the water. Me, my passion is simple: make music. Making music, for me, is an exciting process, much [...]
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February 6, 2012
A Business Exec’s Impression of Thailand
As we were walking through the night market on a recent vacation in Thailand, there was this strange whisper on my ear saying, “Tiger show..follow me.¨ I was buzzed, and it sounded so creepy but, we decided to give it a shot, so we followed him, and lo and behold, it involved anything but the [...]
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December 22, 2011
Finding a Corporate Lawyer
While entrepreneurs don’t like to consider it, a corporate lawyer is one of those necessities that a business will need to have sooner or later. They can help out with negotiations, provide a legal perspective on anything the business does, and clear up contractual disputes with employees or potential partners. In the worst of cases, [...]
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December 19, 2011
Startups: Learn From Others’ Mistakes Too
All the hard knocks you get in business should not always be about lightning strikes and stiff upper-cuts. While there is a great deal to be learned from immersing yourself in the actual experience, there is also much to be learned from the knocks that others get, as they offer you the knowledge to roll [...]
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December 2, 2011
Learning Through the School of Hard Knocks
There are many business schools out there filled with professors who can teach you all the basics and the things you should and shouldn’t do in business. Students go to them to learn from the experts. But even the professors who teach in business schools would say that the most important teacher in business is [...]
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November 18, 2011
Things to Do To Maximize Profits
It is a fact that the number one goal for all businesses is to gain profit. It is a simple target to have yet can be tough to realize. This is particularly true for retail businesses. It may be caused by different things. A simple explanation could be that it is just not that easy [...]
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January 19, 2011
A Key Business Tool
A business is a key to generate revenue but to sustain it over a long period of time, it is important to have faith of the customers. In order to build healthy relations with the customer you need various tools to which can help you in managing these relations with time. Customer relationship management (CRM) [...]
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December 21, 2010
The Sales Game
Sales is a game and an art form, according to some. Ideally, it involves a lot of give and take between the customer and the salesman. Both are, in a way, attempting to sell the other on a prospect: one wants to sell a product, the other wants to sell the idea that he’s not [...]