Turn Clients Into Friends

Turn Clients Into Friends

Today online connected world defines business operational models, older entrepreneurs would find at least “paradoxical”! Our today business growing and international ecosystem includes the large corporations, non-profit organizations, small business owners, solopreneurs, edupreneurs, social media entrepreneurs and any other kind of business operation can provide a viable and viable business.

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How To Develop and Verify a Business Idea

How To Develop and Verify a Business Idea

Before a long time ago, a friend of mine wanted to quit his day job and to start a business with scale models! Yes, scale models! He is a fan, hobbyist, model scale constructor, and had a long time distinctions in the area, developing more than 300 different scaled models and helping other people to build them! Not a so much hi-tech ambition, but a valid one, as well!

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Define Your Why!

Define Your Why

 

One of the major problems in today’s business is the lack of planning and objectives. Many people have started a new business in order to test and (hoping!) to prove right the business model they have in their mind, but rarely this happens without a proper vision, strategy, goals, and objectives. The lack of these elements defines the absence of business as we know it!

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Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs

The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs is a presentation by Guy Kawasaki given in UC Berkeley Startup Competition (Bplan).

Guy Kawasaki is one of the most creative and resourceful writers and entrepreneurs, I know and have many distinctions, both in his publishing as in his business activities. So when he talks you know that he knows very well on what is talking about, and about entrepreneurship is both experienced and knowledgeable to provide practical approaches for anyone wants to avoid pitfalls and obstacles in his business way!

Take a look at it and write us your thoughts in the comment section!

Glimpses on a Changing Scenery Book!

Few words about the book. As I have written in the book, I believe that:

Leadership, today, can be used both as a framework of thought and as a tool for bringing desired and intended changes to a personal and professional level. These changes, made intentionally in a personal and professional level, can propagate results and outputs in the areas of personal development, relationships, business, communities, policies, politics, etc.

Considering the present situation, with all the problems a modern person has to cope with, the changing of things that are not working anymore, as used to be, should and ought to be a task of personal responsibility. And for this reason, I believe that a broad initiative must be taken, in order to regain the insights that can lead us, to formulate a better social, political, business and personal environment. I believe that Leadership, as a principle and disciple, is a vital component in this procedure and can be used by anyone in order to enhance his/her personal and professional life.

Today, in a competitive market environment, with more demanding tasks and requirements a person can cope with, and with a widespread information overload demanding for attention, a person should he or she have a guide to support him/her in his/hers daily, short and long term goals.

This little book, moves to that direction. It consists of posts, have been published in the Takis Athanassiou | Leadership Initiative, and I think that will provide you a framework of reference and discussion on topics related to Business, Leadership, Personal Development, Productivity and Tools.

The book “Glimpses on a Changing Scenery” is all about approaches and concentrates on how you can use some methods, schemes, tools, and ideas to better your personal and professional life. It is also about people, and more specifically it is focused on one person. YOU!

The ideas in this book, cover various human activities, that could be made more efficient, simpler and even more enjoyable for you to accomplish if you would spend some time to think and organize, in a different way, some basic sections of your life.

You can get your own copy today in Amazon!

The 8 Kinds of Leadership Your Team Needs from You

The Leadership Matrix
Today’s guest post is by Victor Prince, co-author of Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results (you can get your copy by clicking here). You can learn more about Victor and the book at the end of the post.

We hear the phrase “think outside the box” a lot. If “the box” is something that is stifling creativity, it sounds like something to avoid. But when “the box” is a framework that smart leaders use to get better results from their teams, it is something to embrace.

 

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