Wednesday, June 29, 2011

How to Get Things Done and Become a Great Finisher:
http://zenway.com/d/become-great-finisher
Studies consistently show that when we are pursuing a goal and consider how far we've already come, we feel a premature sense of accomplishment and begin to slack off. For instance, in one study, college students studying for an exam in an important course were significantly more motivated to study after being told that they had 52% of the material left to cover, compared to being told that they had already completed 48%.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Seven Hints for Selling Ideas
- See critics in private and hear them out. One-on-one meetings are especially important when you expect opposition or criticism. Groups can easily turn into mobs. Avoid situations in which critics can gang up on you, or when a group of people leaning positive turn negative because the listen to a few loud voices. Never gather all of your potential critics in one room hoping to hold one meeting to brief everyone all at once. This kind of event mainly helps them discover each other and their common concerns, so they coalesce as a group united in opposition to the idea.
- Make the benefits clear. Arm supporters with arguments. You might rehearse them for meetings in which questions about your project will come up. Stress the value that the idea will produce for them and other groups. Remember that selling ideas is at least a two-step process. You sell one set of people so they can sell others. You convince them to back you because you reduce the risk to them by giving them the tools for selling their own boards or constituencies.
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

FREE workshop for entrepreneurs -
Prepping to Pitch: Advice for Pitching Investors
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Friday, June 24, 2011

James Cann: How to Start From a Cupboard Room and Become a Business Tycoon
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

How to do amazing things others can't? Such as using your brain to create billions? Such as using your feet to write? If this lady can do it, why not us?
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