The best companies are made up of great teams. You see, even a company full of A-players won’t succeed if those individuals don’t have the ability to work well together. That’s why not too long ago, Google set out on a quest to figure out what makes a team successful. They code-named the study Project Aristotle, a tribute to the philosopher’s
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Thanks to internet marketing, finding a product or service you want today is easier than ever. More and more businesses – both big and small – are ensuring their presence online and are vying for the top slots in Google search result pages, so that their potential customers can find them easily. According to Google,
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Trust makes your job as a leader easier in just about every way possible. Your teams make decisions faster (and revisit them less often). People pro-actively admit to and learn from mistakes instead of scrambling to hide them. It’s easy enough to know your own level of trust in the people you lead. But gauging how they feel about you is a different
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What I know about successful people is this: They love to devour books to expand their minds. Bill Gates has stated that he reads about 50 books a year. Mark Zuckerberg? About 24 books a year. But the undisputed king of reading remains Warren Buffett, who spends 80 percent of his day reading. Someone once asked Buffett the key to success. He pointed to a
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If you’re like most people, January is when you plan your goals for the coming year. You may or may not make New Year’s resolutions, but you do spend some time thinking about what you want to accomplish in the next twelve months, in your business, your career, and possibly in your life as well.
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With more than 700 million active monthly users, Instagram offers plenty of potential followers for businesses of all sizes. And those followers are worth pursuing, since Instagrammers have shown they’re ready to engage with businesses both within and outside of the app. More than 80 percent of Instagram users follow at least one business, and every
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Statistics that Support the Value of SEO Thanks to some fantastic resources, we are able to provide you with 8 SEO Stats that are Hard to Ignore when you’re trying to justify whether or not you should be investing in search engine optimization. 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine Google owns 65-70% of the search engine market
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A CEO’s role comprises many big-picture responsibilities not easily crossed off a to-do list. Some ways to think about productivity in the top job: 1. View delegation in terms of employee development. The most important productivity booster is delegating. But don’t just shove things off your plate; rather, consider how bestowing specific new challenges helps employees along their career paths.
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Among the best business books of 2017 are some excellent new titles by journalists; a candid, lived-it story of sex discrimination in Silicon Valley; and a big chewy book about scaling that is mind-blowing if not necessarily practical. Many new releases–including several mentioned here–make compelling reading for non-business audiences as well. Here are our picks for 2017: 1. Fifty Inventions That
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Steve Jobs set extremely high expectations. He wanted things done a certain way, challenging other people to work harder, work longer, and sometimes to do more than they thought was possible. Steve Jobs had high standards. He wanted things to be done his way. But he also believed in the power of taking an unconventional path — of doing
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Every year, around this time, business leaders set goals, plan, and strategize. Nothing ever goes according to plan. Yet, if you don’t plan, you fail. You plan so you will know what to execute on and how you will grow your business. As entrepreneurs and sales leaders, you all know that taking the right action is key to
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In a McKinsey global survey, 90 percent of respondents said that building capabilities (anything an organization does well that drives meaningful business results) is a top 10 priority for their company. And clearly, they weren’t kidding. In 2012, the Association of Talent Development reported that U.S. organizations spent $164.2 billion on employee learning and development. And yet, only a third of McKinsey respondents thought their
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