Thought Of the Day

15/11/2013: Working in a team is a great challenge. It does not only test our professional skills, it tests our personalities. Working in a team requires the sense of a common goal and a bit of selfless effort and this proves to be almost unachievable sometimes.

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03/11/2013: Sometimes all it takes is that wake-up kick from life pushing you to do a bit of an extra effort and you are a success. Why wait til life has time to kick you??

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02/11/2013: Business is a game for the brave. If you are not willing to risk, you cannot make business work. Marketing research though is what makes such risks managable.

 

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31/10/2013: Easy  and small wins are worse than no wins. They satisfy you and stop you from daring more. A hard win takes time and effort but your reward is a feeling that you can do anything. After feeling that you will understand why nothing smaller is enough.

 

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30/10/2013: A business strategy is something unik. You should never copy-paste a business strategy unless you are able to copy-paste the exact environment/conditions it was implemented the first time in. And this is impossible.

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26/10/2013: Have you ever thought that politeness can be creepy? If you are running a business remeber to be professionally polite in a distant way. Smiling too hard and acting as if your customer is the only person in the world that matters is not being polite. It is being creepy.

 

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25/10/2013: Normally going to a job interview is connected to a lot of nervousness and we all get advices about how to keep our calm. What happens though if you keep your calm but the interviewer seems nervous? Basically nervousness means just the same - you are not hired - no matter who gets nervous.

 

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18/10/2013: Business does control our lives but it up to us to control business. For better or for worse.

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11/10/2013: People say that to master a skill you need to work on a task for thousands of hours. In business though the only skill you really need to master is the skill to innovate and adapt to change.

 

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09/10/2013: Business is all about moving forward. Lack of innovation means failure.

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08/10/2013: Being the best does not mean anything if no one knows you are the best. Marketing yourself is just as important as having something valuable to market.

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07/10/2013: The tragedy of our time is not in the lack of information but in the media flooding us with data which most of us never doubt. If before we were manipulated by the lack of information now we are even worse manipulated by the informational overload. 

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06/07/2013: A sustainable change cannot be forced from outside. A sustainable change comes from within.

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05/10/2013: Instead to be trying to smart and scientific all the way, try to understand your public's language and learn to speak it. After all it is them you are talking to.

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04/10/2013: Choosing the right employee is like choosing what to invest in. Believing that people are as simple and easy to evaluate as many HR offices see it, is simply wrong and will cost you the best employee every now and then.

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03/10/13: Some people believe that not criticising America's shutdown as opposed to condemning Greece's continuing crisis means that we are scilently bowling to the US. The truth is that experience has thought us that crises in Greece are not a global event but a US crisis can bring us all down. We are therefore not scilently bolwing, we are bracing ourselves for what may come our way.

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02/10/13: "It is startling that there are so many thick management books and yet all the super successful business concepts are a result of practices contradicting the theory."