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Put Your Business Career into the Passing Lane with an Online MBA Degree You know you can do that top job, but no one will consider you for it. This article explains how an online MBA degree can help your business career. Add More Communication Arrows to Your Quiver by Writing Books Everyone learns differently. To gain the most attention and understanding you need to provide a variety of story-telling-based ways to explain what you are doing through books. This article explains how to get started. Turning a Breakthrough Concept into a Web Site How can you take something that doesn't exist yet, a way to make improvements 20 times faster, and deliver an interesting, helpful Web site? This article uses a case history to describe one possible path. Use Symbols to Inspire Breakthrough Progress This article explores how creating new symbols helps focus attention on a breakthrough project. Be Careful: Fast-Moving Trends Often Don't Continue Look to the causes of trends before believing that they will continue. You Are Only Going to Be As Good As Your Business Allies Complementary skills and resources are easier to add through alliances than through hiring and internal learning. Choose your allies carefully and learn from them. The Company That Attempts to Stand Alone Will Fall Behind the Competition Don't let self-confidence keep you from looking for helpful allies who can help you serve customers better. Don't Bother Me With Your Help--Can't You See I'm Busy? Many leaders and managers are so busy working on yesterday that they cannot find the time to address today and tomorrow. A shift in priorities is critical to succeed by getting help. Be Curious About Trends Before They Affect Your Company If you wait until trends are affecting you, you will miss most of the opportunities these trends bring. Look around before you are affected. Be Like a Weatherman and Find Out Which Way the Trend Winds Are Blowing It's not enough to know that irresistible forces are at work. You need to understand their influence. This article provides directions to help you to understand the causes of these forces. Develop Defensiveness Extinguishers to Find More Great Profit Opportunities When surprised, most of us get defensive. We don't learn from that surprise until we stop being defensive. This article describes ways to overcome defensiveness faster and more effectively. Don't Be Defensive about Your Mistakes, Profit from Them Setbacks are usually opportunities in disguise. Be sure you get over your defensiveness to look into what happened. Even Those with Enormous Stakes at Risk Can Mistake Future Trends Don't believe that you can foresee future conditions and what they spell for the right strategy. Instead, assume that you need a strategy that will work well regardless of the conditions. Consider How Adverse Conditions Can Be a Blessing in Disguise Any surprise startles us, making us feel uneasy. But the surprise may be a great blessing after we relax and think about what we are actually facing. If Adverse Conditions Overwhelm You, Add Expert Help Some conditions are so adverse that only experts can deal with the problem. This article demonstrates why getting such expertise is critical to business success. Resist Taking on Too Many Opportunities to Make the Greatest Improvement Our perception of what's possible exceeds our grasp. If we spend all of our time trying to reach things we can't grasp, no improvements will occur. Beware the Current Path to Profit Growth: It May Be the Most Expensive and Longest Leaders fall in love with their strategies. They like to blame execution for any setbacks. If irresistible forces are causing your problems, you need a different strategy. The Blame Game Just Delays Putting in Better Strategies for Profitable Growth Putting the blame for poor results on circumstances outside of your control just makes you look foolish. A good leader knows that a new strategy is needed when circumstances turn negative. For More Profit, Shovel Away the Sand Over Those Whose Heads Are Buried in It Be earnest in seeking out problems rather than denying them. The damage will be limited when you do. Defending Failed Directions Can Direct You Away from Profitable Progress Some become frozen into following failed policies because they don't want to admit they made a mistake. That pride can be costly when it leads to harmful inaction. Practice Kicking Yourself With Your Jerking Knee to Earn More Profit Learn to use your instincts to set you off in the right path when big obstacles appear. Confidently Prepare for the Best When You Feel Helpless When you feel overwhelmed, the best path for creating a solution is to assume you will succeed. This article helps you create that mental process. Open Your Eyes and Ears When Tough Times Arrive When problems arise, you need good ideas. But fear can keep people from offering solutions. Look for the Benefit in Setbacks to Gain the Most Profit Adverse circumstances provide opportunities to explore choices that would otherwise not be considered. Implement those opportunities and a setback can be a blessing in disguise. Act Fast When Customers and the Community Lose Faith in Your Offerings Helplessness is most dangerous when customers and others are concerned about whether they can trust you. Banish that Helpless Feeling When Trends Turn Negative Helplessness is a state of mind, fueled by emotion. You can take practical steps to banish that feeling and move toward valuable solutions. When the Situation Looks Hopeless, Doubt Your Lack of Choice There's always an ethical way out to any irresistible trend problem for a business. Don't let a feeling of helplessness keep you from looking for it. Helplessness Can Turn a Big Company into One Big, Unhappy Company Remaining inert in response to strong, adverse trends is very harmful. Get help instead. To Profit from Powerful Trends Be Like a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Be ready to jump away from mistakes concerning irresistible forces if you want to avoid costly setbacks. Profit from Irresistible Trends Rather than Sit Helpless When irresistible forces unexpectedly change a familiar environment to one in which normally-appropriate actions no longer work or even backfire, executives and workers can find themselves feeling overwhelmed by negative emotions and helpless to respond effectively. They should see adversity as an opportunity to reconsider thinking and develop a new sense of direction. Step Up to Being the Best in the World Through Outsourcing Sometimes outsourcing is a great way to improve performance to world class levels. Reduce Costs to Help Your Beneficiaries Gain More Help A nonprofit organization needs to be efficient as well as caring. This article looks a how business model innovation can expand what a nonprofit organization can afford to provide for beneficiaries. Improve to the Nth Degree and Reap Exponential Rewards Some opportunity areas offer better rewards for breakthroughs. This article explains how to test various breakthrough choices to find the ones that will be the most rewarding. Be As Strategic As Bill Gates in Choosing Breakthrough Projects Leaders make a mistake when they let enthusiasm direct their breakthroughs. Pick the right strategic advantage instead and you can accomplish vastly more. This article describes how to take control over breakthrough project selection. Use a Schedule and Plan to Implement Your New Year's Resolution to Make Breakthroughs Most people have forgotten their new year's resolutions by March. But with a written-out schedule and plan, you can make a new year's resolution to create breakthroughs and accomplish that worthy task. This article contains such a schedule and plan to help you. Be Wise Like an Owl in Choosing Your Breakthrough Directions Many leaders set their targets for breakthroughs in the wrong areas. As a result, they miss the opportunity to make greater improvements from the same time, money, and effort. This article provides a plan for making better choices of breakthrough targets. Stoke the Fire in Your Belly to Make Continual Breakthroughs It's easy to assume that there is only limited potential because we haven't checked out the alternatives. With enthusiasm for breakthroughs, you soon find them in more places and more often. This article explains about the value of generating enthusiasm for breakthroughs. Stop Stalling and Make Breakthroughs Instead by Banishing Habits That Slow Down Improvements Individuals and organizations cost themselves dearly by sticking with habits that brake their rate of improvement. Identify and eliminate those bad habits, and your improvements will turn into breakthroughs. Combine Individual and Group Perfection to Make the Most Valuable Breakthroughs One person can only do so much. But groups often get in one another's way. This article shows how to use both individual excellence and organizational coordination to accomplish breakthroughs. Breakthroughs Are Available If You Hold the Right Contest to Get Help from Outside Your Organization Productivity breakthroughs that can save lives, make large gains in performance, and cut costs with the same time, effort, and resources in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Many people find it hard to locate such breakthroughs, but a new method of holding global contests seems to be solving that limitation. This article provides examples of such contests. To Get the Action You Need to Succeed, Be Sure Everyone Hears and Understands You Leaders too often assume that merely giving an order will cause the needed action to follow. In most cases, the order won't be heard or understood the first time around. The article describes ways to get around such misunderstandings to achieve flawless implementation of important tasks in business. Become a Practical Optimist to Seize the Best Opportunities from What's New Most people are justifiably skeptical of new activities that aren't fully developed yet. Those activities seem juvenile, not authentic, undesirable, and annoying. Yet with improvements, those activities can become the best thing going. How do you decide when that's going to be the case so you can cash in? This article describes a discipline you can use to find the best opportunities. Avoid Fatal Errors by Avoiding Untested Conclusions We often act on assumptions that are wrong. When those assumptions aren't tested, the consequences can be disastrous both for individuals and for businesses. In this article, you'll learn how to spot bad assumptions that can get you into trouble and to check them out. Waste Not, Want Not: An Executives Digs Out Big Profits by Turning "Waste" into Valuable Products Assumptions keep us from accomplishing most of our potential. That means we usually waste time, efforts, and resources on small potential gains while overlooking larger opportunities. This article explains why you can expect to find huge performance increases through performance breakthroughs in most of your activities. Education Creates Attractive Choices: From Climbing the Career Ladder to Planning for a New Career Many people seek an advanced degree, such as an MBA, to accelerate career progress by adding credentials and valuable new knowledge for their current work. That education can turn out to have added benefits for the mid-career person by opening up doors to a better career in a new field. This article looks at how Carlos Laya found a new career field through his MBA studies. Mid-Career Academic Studies Help Build a Platform for Consulting Success Many people would like to become successful business and organizational consultants. This article shows how mid-career education can boost the opportunity to enjoy such a career.

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