Business Success

Our business success library is packed with the strategies needed to succeed. Whether you are on a corporate career path or navigating the entrepreneurial journey, you will find the professional development advice you need to excel from trusted business speakers and authors, executive coaches, and experts who have a proven track record of helping others experience professional success.

Automobile University By Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar motivational speakerIn our hurry-hurry world, most people do not have time to become bookworms, but virtually all of us can become “tape worms.” (Or “podcast worms” or “CD worms”… you get the picture.)

A study by the University of Southern California revealed that if you live in a metropolitan area and drive 12,000 miles a year you can acquire the equivalent of two years of college education in three years’ time by listening to educational information in your car. Since the average American adult spends from two hundred to seven hundred hours each year in an automobile, this is good news.

6 Steps to a Great Work-Life Balance

6 steps to work life balance infographicWe hear it over and over again: “Success requires sacrifice. You can’t have it all”.

If you want to be successful with your business or career, you will have to buckle down and get ready to pay a steep price in your personal life.

This is how most people think and live. Yet there’s a minority of people, let’s call them role models, who have found a way to end this age-old and unforgiving compromise. I know this because I searched the globe for them. I wrote a book about what they can teach us – and this is how I have chosen to live my own life.

Success Lesson: Pick a Lane

Jim StovallDue to my travel schedule, I frequently find myself in airports across the country waiting to go through the security line. I have noticed a phenomenon among fellow travelers that involves them getting in a line and then observing one of the other lines is moving faster. They will invariably rush over to that line and stand there a while until they, once again, believe that another line is better. Regularly, the people who were in the original line and stayed put get through security much faster and are well on their way to their gate before these opportunistic line jumpers clear security.

Business Success: How to Make a Product that Sells Its Self

Business SuccessA perfect product launch needs to start with a good product. In tough, competitive times, being good isn’t enough. A product needs to be exceptional, and sell itself to surpass your competition.

In order to make a product that sells itself, you need to understand certain aspects of marketing. You need to make sure your product is perfectly suited to the needs of your customers and target audience. In this post, we’ve discussed some key considerations to make a product that sells itself.

Lessons on Success from Five American Presidents

motivational quote by Abraham LincolnPresidents of the United States are certainly curious creatures. They’re often enshrined in the history books, as more than just mere men – celebrated and embellished, ranking high in the American folklore pantheon with Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan.

By the same token, these men are often demonized and their memories scorned for some of their historically unpopular decisions. Since Washington, they’ve received constant coverage by journalists and historians. Yet still, they often remain mysterious and aloof.

7 Secret Ingredients to Spice up Your Entrepreneurial Recipe

Being an entrepreneur can be both fulfilling and rewarding. However, it can also be tough. There’s a lot of competition and only a handful survive and reach success. On the other hand, there are countless opportunities to learn and grow—if you’re smart and know how to take advantage of them.

There’s not one formula for success as businesses vary in nature. However, you can spice up your entrepreneurial recipe by remembering to always include the following ingredients:

5 Tips for Being More Proactive at Work

Advice on being proactive in businessThere’s a reason why being proactive is linked to success. People who take an active role in the workplace are the ones who inevitably perform better and get noticed by superiors.

A take-charge mindset is empowering, because it gives you a sense of control over your role, allowing you to balance multiple responsibilities without compromising the quality of your work.

By learning how to tackle tasks more readily and skillfully, you can be more productive, avoid pitfalls and experience faster professional growth. To learn how to be more proactive, follow these helpful tips.

Do It Yourself… With a LITTLE Bit of Help

Gerard Bonner - motivational article“It’s just Me, Myself, and I”…

…and so goes the chorus of the popular 1989 single “Me, Myself, and I” from rap legends De La Soul. Whether or not you’re familiar with the song, you certainly are familiar with that feeling of being the only dependable person in your group, your team, or your office. As most sports teams will tell you, “there is no I in team”. That adage sounds acceptable when it comes to a recreational game of baseball or football. However, how necessary is a team when it comes to launching your dream? Do you really need others to make your idea or business a reality?

Success Lesson: The Power of Self Interest

Robert Ringer - speaker & authorThe reason I have never bought a lottery ticket is that I don’t want to soil my belief system with fantasies of striking it rich through pure luck. Lotteries are perhaps the ultimate free-lunch delusion, which is why they are a favored method of taxation by governments throughout the world.

Sooner or later, anyone who is serious about success must be willing to discard something-for-nothing fantasies and understand that the key to getting what you want in life is to think value instead of rights. You have no right to someone’s love, you have no right to someone’s friendship, you have no right to someone’s respect. All these, and more, must be earned, and to the extent you create value for others, you will have them in abundance.

Eliminate The Negative And Accentuate The Positive In Your Life

Zig Ziglar motivational speakerAccentuate The Positive. That was the title of a popular song of yesteryear. Unfortunately, according to Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D., and Neil Baum, M.D., in too many businesses we are managed in the negative rather than in the positive. They point out that management often says to their staff, “Don’t mention the competitor’s product,” or “Don’t forget to make five cold calls this week.”

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