In the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred — a fertile woman forced to bear children for elite barren couples — finds a message scratched into her closet by a previous handmaid. It’s the Latin phrase: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Loosely translated, it means: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” For small business owners, […]
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In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. Whether you are focused on your professional career, or starting your own company, YOU are the first or only brand that anyone will see and remember. That means that you need to overtly market yourself, rather
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What work habits of geniuses like Einstein, Shannon, and Turing can the rest of us learn from? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Jimmy Soni, co-author of A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information
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Over the past five years, I’ve been undergoing a process of self-improvement that has enabled me to pivot away from a career I was miserable doing into something I love. If you would have told that when I was fired from my job in the corporate world that I would have my own content marketing
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People have been speculating the demise of retail ever since ecommerce first emerged. However, even though consumer shopping behaviors are shifting, a significant portion of shopping continues to take place in physical retail stores. A recent study found that 94 percent of retail sales still take place in stores. I can confidently say my company
What is the hardest truth you had to accept that made you stronger? originally appeared on Quora – the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Nela Canovic, Productivity hacker, writer, entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, on Quora: Here’s one important part about truth
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It’s often been said that building growing and running a business is like running a marathon. And in the marathon, some miles will go faster than others, and some miles will be harder than others. No mile will be the same. While I have never run a marathon, I suspect that you probably run the
Most businesses track current performance through measures like sales volume, margin, or service levels. But few try to estimate or measure maximum capacity. We know how we are doing–but we don’t know how we’re doing compared to what we could be doing. Maximum capacity is the highest level of performance a system, organization, team, or
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